Petit Bourgeois

Thanks Chris for the design upgrade (more legible typography, fixed width, refreshed header). There had been no design update since the launch of this version in 2004, was long overdue. Now I should also upgrade the software (to WordPress of course) so p… more »

Here's an interesting post: you'll be happy to know I've upgraded to the latest version of b2evolution, the blog engine that powers this site. I've had little difficulty re-customizing the skin, but I had to hack the core to hide empty categories, and… more »

I hadn't realized MacOS still had a different way of interpreting image colors than Windows. So the green area at the right side of my title bar (right of the photo) looked clipped when it shouldn't have. Fixed this with a solid-green background image. C… more »

Removed the date header (who cares) and pushed it to the meta info block at the bottom of each post. Pushed a few other things around. Not entirely happy yet, but at this rate, Paul might stop being embarrassed about this blog around the end of the decad… more »

I just removed the "document" icon that was at the top-left-hand corner of each post, which pointed to the same location as the "link" icon at the bottom-right-hand corner. Left only the link icon, not too sure about this, but it'll improve the text-only… more »

Many of the searches that end up on this site are on people's names. Jamy Vodegel, Ruud van Bragt, Brian Hoffer, Roel Klaassen... I'll be exploring how this could be used to make this site more useful to its (admittedly limited) audience. more »

This site needed to be cleaned up, getting rid of the archives and calendar is a good start. more »

Been discussing this site with Paul (he hates its look...), and we agreed on the idea that the navigation of blogs was an issue. So I've decided to take a look at what I'm providing here, and what would make sense. Obviously, much of the navigation of… more »