Pixels and Widgets

A blog by Tai Toh

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  • “Directly responding to Apple’s campaign is weak…

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    Directly responding to Apple’s campaign is weak. It’s playing Pepsi to Apple’s Coke, Burger King to Apple’s McDonald’s. It’s an explicit acknowledgement that Microsoft is the second-place brand. From Daring Fireball regarding Microsofts new I’m a PC Ad John Gruber makes an excellent point. It’s almost like MS is asking Apple not to make fun…

  • I have no more mash potatoes for my Shepherd’s p…

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    I have no more mash potatoes for my Shepherd’s pie. Potato-to-meat ratio is all wrong.

  • Of Drupal Woes

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    [UPDATE: 10/16/2008] I take back most of what I think about the Zen Theme.  The more I poked around, the more I “got it”.  Great job by the guys at Lullabot. I’ve taken the last week and a half exploring Drupal. Some people say it’s the Cat’s Meow, but I say that it still needs a…

  • “We think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web…

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    In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating…

  • Quote on Drupal and the cluster that is theming

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    Finding the source can be difficult to track down due to the hierarchy of theming calls whose source can be spread throughout the whole system. From Overriding themable output | drupal.org regarding drupal theming Wow. There is a startling admisssion. Even Drupal admits that theming is a bit hairy.

  • Why are Drupal themes so unspectacular

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    I don’t intend for this to be trolling, but I was googling the term “Drupal is ugly” looking for why most of the themes which are formally submitted to drupal.org are so, umm, un-inspiring. This found an interesting blog post from a well known Drupal developer AND designer who quit his involvement earlier this year.  The post…

  • Drupal Theming Sucks

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    Clearly the developers of Drupal, a leading opensource Content Management Framework, are not designers. When they have to publish a 250-page book on theming Drupal—it means it is too hard.

  • John Gruber on Wall-E/Wall•E/Wall*E/…I alway…

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    John Gruber on Wall-E/Wall•E/Wall*E/… I always thought that the “Animated” category in the Oscars was BS. I mean, back in 2005, The Incredibles was easily the best film of the year, IMHO.

  • Add this to VMWARE .vmx file

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    For shared folders add:</p> <p>workingDir = &#8220;&#8221;<br /> sharedFolder.maxNum = “2” sharedFolder0.present = “TRUE” sharedFolder0.enabled = “TRUE” sharedFolder0.readAccess = “TRUE” sharedFolder0.writeAccess = “TRUE” sharedFolder0.hostPath = “C:\DIRECTORY_NAME\” sharedFolder0.guestName = “Files” sharedFolder0.expiration = “never”

  • Brendan Dong

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    Brendan Sleeping, originally uploaded by Tai Toh. He’s a big boy. Dropped by Ray’s place in March to pick up some Computer Hardware. Took my camera along to take some pics of Brendan. I made a small Flickr Set. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time to take pictures. They were taking him to the mall.…