asymmetrical

I might just start using this blog again, who knows. I guess 2 blogs are better then one, maybe. Who knows. I am showing my friend Angela how this works.

My Vox blog is now viewable to the world! Actually, parts of it aren’t, like photos of my family. (Those are private to family only. If you are not designated as my family you aren’t missing anything because I wouldn’t have posted those on this blog anyway.) Anyway, please change your bookmarks to http://miriam.vox.com/. Vox is still a work in progress, but now you can see it and read my silly posts as well as see videos, music and things.

I enjoyed my first week at Six Apart, a very cool company. Other than some hard drives dying on my watch, which was just bad luck and not my fault, it was a good week. If hard drives had to die I guess it’s good that they did before I had any actual work stored on there.

This blog, Asymmetrical, was always subtitled, “A Test Blog”. I never did figure out what to say and given the dearth of comments didn’t know if anyone cared anyway. Ironically, the only comment I’ve gotten in ages asked if I would “have to dump Wordpress” now that I’m working at Six Apart. The folks at Six Apart have actually been very cool about my having a Wordpress blog. They are secure about their own products and feel that the more people blogging on any platform the better. However, I now have 2 Six Apart blogs (both internal) and will be busy with work and with those. I have been learning about cool Six Apart products and features but I can’t talk about them except to say they are top secret. (I did want to say that because it makes me sound like my life is filled with intrigue, danger and military secrets which would destroy the world if I revealed them.)

After I catch my breath I will be getting a new public blog. Until then I will leave this here so I can post a link to the new one.

I start work at Six Apart on Monday! I am truly excited and happy because I will be working with a group of really smart, creative, nice people! I learned some cool things from them even at the interviews. Tantek Çelik’s site came up, and I’ve been looking at the polygons on that. I was wondering what would happen if instead of solid style borders they had double or some other style. (I tried it out on a triangle. The dotted and dashed predictably don’t work, but the rest do various things.) One day I will find out what happens in CSS3 if the divs on the polygons had rounded corners. In the mean time, this falls under “don’t you have anything better to do?” which my husband asks me occasionally.

My favorite 6 year old has explained a couple of things to me.

Me: Does a tree falling in a forest make noise when there’s no one around to hear it?
Her: Yes, but not as much.
Me: How come?
Her: Because the person who is there to hear it yells “Help a tree is falling! Quick get out of the way!”

Me: They say “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Her: Two apples keep two doctors away. Especially if you you have good aim when you throw the apples at the doctors.

I have been working on two custom themes. (The presentation module of Wordpress is called a theme.) These two are specially for these clients and use images that they own. The first is a blog for New York artist Reina Mia Brill to announce her shows, publications, and events. The images are all her artwork. The second is Northern Light Studio LLC’s new blog. Northern Light Studio specializes in the study of historic painting and sculpture techniques. Once again, the images are their own photos and artwork. (I’ve got a third custom theme in the works, but am waiting for some materials from the client…) Part of this experiment is to see how well Wordpress works for customers to update their own sites. I am very excited that they can update their sites themselves and look forward to reading what they write.