Playing around with new design, rounded corners and no more HTML tables. I am modern, but ten years late. Trying to remove always more from every page. Simplicity is the key to happiness. As Antoine de St-Exupery wrote :

The script for rounded corners does not seem to work with Safari. Crap. Fixed.

The script for rounded corners is blocked by IE7. What the hell ? I think I'm going back to normal squared boxes.

The footer is not under the text in the archives, but only in Firefox. Gniiiii.

Testing my own uber-crappy PHP nano-CMS (Content Managing Posting System - at least now I have a RSS link). Using a CMS programmed by others is too mainstream, c'mon man, even if there are plenty of good open source ones, and I love free software (free as in free speech) and people who develop them. Incidently, I believe 2007 will be the year I finaly switch to a completely free system. Enough with all the restrictions, enough being judged as a criminal just because you want to make things work or help people, enough with the gigabytes of cracked stolen illegally downloaded useless software. Anyway. Even lame geeks like me code their own stuff. Although PHP is really very easy to learn. In only a few hours everybody can produce working code completely unoptimized, messy, copy-pasted from everywhere, and full of security holes. Yet, the speed of the learning curve is quite amazing. But next time I will do it in Assembler, or Cobol, just for the sake of it. It's curious how technique is always an excellent diversion when you don't feel like writing real content. I mean text. I mean substance. Or at least something that looks a bit like it. It's like spending a lot of time making a nice decorated wooden box from scratch when you have nothing to put inside. It's like learning how to blow a colored glass bottle when you're tired of drinking wine. Lately, my average is around one post every three months. Maybe even less. Getting tired of all this shit. Too many very talented people around writing three mind-blowing texts a day on their blogs. Reading them is a pleasure, but then you realize that your own writing stinks like sick cockroach poo on a rainy day. It's depressing.

All right, I needed some filling paragraph to check how it looks on the main page. I'm even getting tired of the "Lorem ipsum" typical filler text. Now I guess I wrote enough.

When a charity website becomes a pure work of digital abstract art, so completely detached from the reality of the genocide currently happening there, that it induces an almost embarrassing shift in perception. No pictures to provoke pity and tears, nothing. You have to do the research yourself. Only 400.000 numbers to represent the dead. Choose your own and light them. A beautiful zen design in black and white that I can only love. Frankly, this is the most beautiful website I ever saw. And some cool geek had a little fun while doing some goodwill :