Windows is like your ex girlfriend. It complains a lot but when you decide to move on with something else it starts bitching.

Global Layout

The global layout had some minor fixes as well, mainly aimed at aligning the elements in a better way.

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The Header

The problem with the header was that it did look quite nice on the homepage, but it wasn’t aligned properly on the profile page. There was also a problem with the position of the navigation menu and the search bar. The issue with the latter one was that the more important an element is, the more it should appear to the left (as most people read from the left to the right). Facebook however, decided to do it the other way around for some reason.

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Advertisements

They’re gone.

Reworked Account Menu

Added icons to increase the usability.

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Important Notice

Currently the Stylesheet is still in BETA form, which means there will be bugs. If you happen to find any bugs you should report them at the bugtracker. The project page can be found here.

Download

Facebook Done Right can be downloaded from this page.

Since I quit my study and not having a job at the moment plus being a Mozilla fan, I decided to give the challenge a try. However, with every challenge comes a problem. In this case it’s getting information about what should go on the home tab, and that’s why I need you (yes, you). I decided that before I would start designing at all I needed some feedback from browser users. To make your life a little bit easier, I’d love if you would be able to answer the questions listed below.

• Do you use the current home button, if so, how ?
• If this so called home tab would be included in Firefox 4.0, what would you want it to show ?
• What do you do on the web. I’m not interested in your porn addiction, I just want to know the general use of your browser (e.g. watching movies or checking facebook).
• Do you use extensions, bookmarks or your browser’s history viewer ?
• Are you interested in geek related information, such as system info or the amount of webpages you’ve visited over the past 2 weeks ? (optional)

When answering these questions please try to be as clear as possible. Take a look at the example below to see what I mean.

Wrong:

Q. Do you use the current home button, if so, how ?
A. Yes.

Correct:

Q. Do you use the current home button, if so, how ?
A. Yes, whenever I move to a new page I first go back to the home page.

You can provide this information using the template and comment system below.

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This is why I wrote platformlib, a small Python module meant to solve this problem. It uses Python’s built-in platform module and hardcore nerd power to retrieve the name, version and codename of the operating system on which it’s running. No longer do you have to deal with system names such as “Darwin”. Instead, the platformlib will return “Mac OS X 10.6.2” if the users is running that specific operating system.

Supported Systems

* Mac OS X (>= 10.4)
* Microsoft Windows (XP or newer)
* Linux based systems (Ubuntu, openSUSE, etc)

Downloads, Wiki, etc

All of this can be found at the project page: http://www.yorickpeterse.com/projects/projects/show/platformlib

Expect several downtimes throughout the week.

Update

Site has been migrated and everything is working fine.

For example, there was a student who simply took photos of a person without actually being able to tell what she did, and more importantly why she did it. Not that taking photos of people without knowing why is bad however, when you’re doing it for an assignment and it simply doesn’t make sense it can get quite complicated. On top of that I just happen to find it boring as hell (which you’ve probably noticed by now).

The new photos can be seen in the My Family album.

Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
• Python 2.X (tested on Python 2.6 only).
• Administrator rights.

Download

The application, called BlockAdobe (how original) can be downloaded here. Once you’ve finished downloading the application (which should only take about 1 second) you should read the “README.rtf” file for more information.

Update: October 28, 2009

It seems that the application not only prevents Adobe from validating the serial number, but it also enables you to use the trial version without ever having to enter a serial number. Simply download a trial version from the Adobe website, run the application and enjoy legally cracked applications !

Anyways, other than trying to download some music I’ve also took some lovely shots of birds, crashed cars, killer whales (the real ones) and a bunch of other things. So far one of my best pictures is a photo of a hummingbird sitting on a feeder. Ofcourse, as with every location I visit I had to find some abandoned buildings to explore, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a gold mine. 3 buildings : A school, a fish factory (now used to store fishing nets) and an old house (full of asbestos ).

The School

The school was probably one of the best locations, the building dated back to 1929 but was abandoned somewhere around 1985. Since then it had been used as a lawyers office (if I’m correct). In 2009 the building was abandonded again for some reason. The weird thing was that some rooms were relatively new, whereas others were in a really bad state. One of the best rooms is the office on the second floor. Everything was still in there, computers, documents and even photographs of two children. What made the location so great was that even though it had been visited before (a lot of writings on the wall said “XXX was here XXX/09″) it wasn’t damaged by vandals (other than the writings).

The Fish Factory

Not really a factory, more of a processing plant. The building was relatively small and there wasn’t that much to see, other than a lot of fishing nets and a lot of writings on the wall. It was more of an exercise rather than a real exploration.

The Abandonded House

The basement of this house was filled with asbestos (somebody was so kind to paint asbestos containing materials pink) and the upper levels didn’t had any furniture left. The only interesting was a sign saying “Locked out. The owner sent us home!” and a bunch of camping chairs.

Photos of my holidays (and the Urbex locations) will be posted once I get back.