MenZa’s Weblog

Really fresh–nice and limey.

I’ve long been a sucker for green–and I’ve long wanted to have a green WP theme–so here is a template, heavily customised from another customised template, of “Blue Kino” (I’m too lazy to sport a link).
Anyway, the site is very buggy for the time (a lot of things really annoyed me, like the Gravatars, which still don’t align properly.

You’ll have to excuse these flaws for a couple of weeks, because I’ll be on holiday from tomorrow and two weeks ahead (returning next Friday).

Thanks to Nick Dienstbier for sending the initial template and the logo and Indranil Dasgupta & Geoffrey Sneddon for helping me with various XHTML/CSS problems.

Still, various parts of the site are completely outdated (e.g. About, Colophon), and need tweaking. You’ll most likely experience a few bugs while on the site.

I don’t care; it still looks kickass.

We’ve all heard the tributes to Chuck Norris going around: here’s his personal top 10.
Thanks to Tony for the link.

Well, top-of-the-list, to be infact. After being online on the WP Theme Viewer for a few days, my theme has had an overwhelming number of downloads–around 500.

In other news, I just received a 10 in Maths–10 being something like A/B+ in American marks.

Oh yeah, and I’m working on a new theme I hope I can have WordPress’ified, as I’m starting to get bored with this look.

I thought this was pretty extreme.

Apparently, in some cases, they’re required to undergo surgery to recover from their cheating attempts–which include e.g. microscopic earphones and wireless devices.

I spotted a few bugs in Mesozoic, which I fixed. Updating is highly recommendable.

Changelog:

* Fixed footer image being off-colour
* Fixed link to RSS2 comments url.

It can be downloaded here.

The WordPress community has had to endure sad third-party theme viewers for a long time.

This is no longer the case. Thomas Silkjær, creator of webdesignbook.net and a number of WordPress themes has been at it, coding the new theme viewer.

A small team, including me, has worked hard for the past few days to tag the astounding 472 themes.

If you’re looking for a new theme for your WordPress install, the theme viewer can be found on themes.wordpress.net.

…is the name of a Firefox-based browser, which has just been released in its first beta–and what a beta it is.

Featuring blogging tools for WordPress, Movable Type and many more, flickr support for images and del.icio.us bookmarking.
The first beta has been released for Windows, Linux and Mac alike, so there’s no excuse for not getting it and trying it out yourself!

It’s good looking, and it works like a treat. Check it out.

I’ve decided to finally release the theme I used to have on my blog, now dubbed “Mesozoic”.
I’ve poured tonnes of work and manhours into this theme, and I’m quite excited with the outcome.

I won’t be providing any lengthy description now, but you’ll need a bit of practical information :)

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Gilles Marlet is currently working on a port to the Dotclear CMS, which I’ll add to my website once it’s done.
The download can be found here.

If you like it, please consider donating to cover hosting and caffeine expenses, or buy me something from my Amazon wishlist.

Thanks :)

Last week, I had the pleasure and privilege of staying at IO Interactive, the developers of games such as Freedom Fighters and the Hitman series.
I had scheduled my internship over eight months prior, without really knowing what to expect.
How many employees would they be? How large would their office building be? What will I be doing? Where is it located?

Finally, it was time. My parents, my brother and I packed our most necessary belongings, clamped on our old caravan and headed for Copenhagen.
Here’s an extract of my stay.

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