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What are Google thinking??
Jun 10th
Seriously, what are Google thinking? My idea of a Google search page is a clean white background, with blue text, and a great big Google logo at the top of the page. That’s not what I see today, I see a plethora of eyesores, making my “Google Time” somewhat dis-pleasurable. I want my Google back, I don’t want some crackpot images from National Geographic every time I go to the search page, I want my white background, and blue text back. ITS HOW I LIKE GOOGLE…
The worst image possible, is when you click “Remove background image“, and you get this.. It’s disgusting.
I mean look at the image first of all. Its silver and a dull brass on a black background, which is okay, but the image is not flat. It has a 3rd dimension added to it which makes text hard to read. I mean, don’t get me wrong, some of the images work with the rather generic text, such as the image of the sand-dunes, you can still see the text. But when you’ve got white backgrounds with white images, and then white text with a bit of a shadow, it doesn’t work Google…
Secondly, the Google logo is somewhat ugly. What happened to the blue, red, yellow and green we’ve all grown to love? Why do they have to bastardize our beloved ones?
Thirdly, what happened to the text, we all know white text on a black and white background makes the text hard to read?
Next, when you do select a background image, you have this bright-white atrocity stuck at the top of the page, which is the navigation bar. Its ugly when you have your own background. If you’re going to have a background image, at least change the image at the top as well, so that it all blends in.
All I am asking for, is for you to give me back the Google I remember from the very first time I went onto your Search Engine. Mesmerized by the colours and the simplicity, it became the ONLY search Engine I used. And yes, that’s how much I like Google! But I think I may stray away from using the home page to search from now on, and just stick to using the URL bar in Chrome to search, at least my eyes won’t implode when they try to read the text!
If you’d like to read more information about these homepage changes, view: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-of-homepage.html
Bash
Oct 15th
I got bored of looking at the same terminal screen day in, day out. The standard output’s are boring, and are the same on most distributions. The image on the right shows how they should look, boring and not very exciting. After some tweeking and some minor editing, oh, and a lot of reading, Using the following bash script, I have created something unique, and something I like.
# If id command returns zero, you’ve root access. if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then # you are root, set red colour prompt PS1="\e[35;1m(\d \t\e[31;1m \u@\h:\w ) $\e[0m \n " else # normal PS1="\e[35;1m(\d \t\e[34;1m \u@\h:\w ) $\e[0m \n " fi
All that differs between the two outputs, is the colour of the user’s terminal. Just to help me see quickly if I am putting a command into the root terminal. After appending this script to /etc/bashrc, I had found what I liked..
Site Updates
Aug 29th
As you may have noticed, a few changes have been going on around here:
- Site Theme – I got bored of the fixed-width, extra-narrow, plain and boring theme. So I went for something a bit wider, something that handles thumbnailing better, and something that’s more aesthetically pleasing.
- Tag-Globe – I have tweaked a few settings in the tag-cloud, which optimises its load time, and also makes some of the text easier to read.
- Social Linking – I have installed a plugin which allows you to link an article to Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon and more. I am hoping this plugin makes my blog more known about, and extends to the deepest, darkest depths of the Internet.
- SEO Settings – I have edited some Search Engine Optimisation settings to allow sites like Google, MSN and Yahoo to index my site better.
I am also contemplating removing the comment rating system from the blog, as its just not really doing anything. Hopefully your comments will assist me in making this decision. Your feedback will be appreciated.
Is this the epitome of LIGHTWEIGHT!?
Jun 29th
VIEWS PLEASE!
Also, don’t forget to vote by clicking a star above!!!
Flubberhosts is no more!
May 25th
Over the past couple of weeks, there has been speculation of Flubberhosts closing it’s doors to the public. This is NOT true! What is true though, is Gridstar have acquired Flubberhosts. But honestly… What was the point, Flubberhosts rented space from Gridstar, so the only thing Gridstar could have acquired are their clients.
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Oh! I forgot to mention!
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