Vintage Nike Shoes

My friend Seton gave me a call the other day to let me know that Nike is re-making many of their vintage shoes from the late 1970's. As someone who used to steal my dads 25 year old racers just because they looked cool, I am really excited about this. Yeah they probably aren't great for your feet and they probably won't help all that much toward a new P.R., but they just might make you feel like Pre running in shoes made on Bowerman's waffle iron.

I'll probably pick up a pair or two to wear around. Not sure if I'm going to try running or racing in them though. Mostly because I don't run or race too much anymore, unless I'm in the mood for some good old self loathing.

Tango: According to Cvaty

Check out Tango Icons, according to cvaty they will win.

(2:56:29 PM) cvaty: tango
(2:56:32 PM) cvaty: the icons that will win
(2:56:39 PM) cvaty: they've all ready won
(2:56:41 PM) cvaty: who am i kidding
(2:56:51 PM) cvaty: cauz eventually
(2:56:59 PM) cvaty: everybodys gonna use the same themed icons
(2:57:02 PM) cvaty: and icons will just be
(2:57:10 PM) cvaty: and tangos getting to that point

Launchy

Heard about this cool program called Launchy the other day. I've been using it today at work and I like it a lot! It is a quick way to run programs or open files on your computer without messing around with the start menu, desktop shortcuts, or folders. After you install it just hit <alt> + <space> and it pops up a box for you to type in. This is kind of like the run box (<windows key> + <r>) but it looks much better and is a lot smarter. You can pick from lots of great looking skins and customize where the app looks for files. It sort of makes a guess as to what you want too so if you open the same programs often it will pick those to show up first. Try it out!

Firefox Stylish Plugin

Today for some reason I remembered that it was possible to define a custom css stylesheet for a web page in Firefox. When I was researching how to do it I found a guide on Tech Reads about the Firefox plugin Stylish. Stylish really streamlines the process of setting up custom styles for different sites. It seems that the mecca repository of those styles is located at Userstyles.org. Using this plugin and the custom styles that are out there on the net it is possible to easily customize your favorite sites on the internet. This will make you cool, I promise!

Once you have installed the Stylish plugin you can add new styles by hand or automatically at userstyles.org. I installed one for Google that is fantastic. It is a dark gray theme that looks amazing and also helps functionally by hiding advertisments in the search results. To use it you go to the user style page at userstyles.org. If you click the "Load into Styleish" button it will pop up the Stylish plugin with the custom css loaded. Go to Google and then click Preview on the Sylish plugin. If you like the way the page looks then save the style in Stylish, otherwise just hit cancel. So far I've customized Google, gMail, and YouTube. I had to customize the gmail one a bit because google had changed the name of one of their images. I can see that maintaining these custom styles could be a bit of a pain as they could potentially break every time the site is updated. I guess thats just the price you pay for being awesome though.

CSS sucks

My css style is not all that I thought it was. I just clicked on amurica and realized that my main content box has nothing to do with the size of the nav bar. Or maybe its the other way around.

Regardless, this means I'm going to have to dig into my template again and fix it. I know its just a stupid thing but it will bug me if I don't. I might spice up the page a bit while I'm at it. Maybe I'll put some sweet images and whatnot. Maybe not. I like it really really simple.

While I'm making a post I'd like to link an article I just read by Wikipedia founder Larry Whales. He gives a shoutout to wowwiki so I'm a big fan.

A good example of this is a successful wiki called wowwiki.com , a wiki about the online computer game World of Warcraft.

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