Comments on: Blog housekeeping, Autumn 2009 edition

By: narkins

narkins — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:33 +0000

Darker than Black is being released over here now!? Interesting I guess I’ll have to say goodbye to some of my student Loan.
Hadn’t clocked that, thanks for the heads up.

By: Hige

Hige — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:35:41 +0000

Definitely curious to hear more about your thoughts on the Haruhi books. Are you reading the official translations or the ‘net jobs? I’m really interested in giving them a once over, even if the anime is insufferable (particularly because the anime is insufferable – you’re not the first to say the books are quite different). I heard Haruhi is more of a MacGuffin than a main character in the novels, which can only be a good thing.

By: ETERNAL

ETERNAL — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:19:42 +0000

I still don’t know anything about CSS, but I like white space. Your old theme was one of the standards I used when trying to find a good theme to switch to back in January. That said, I also like what you did here. I think I’m just easy to please when it comes to website design…

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:16:07 +0000

@ghostlightning and lelangir: the comment box ought to be fine now. I just changed the width from 100% to 90%, which seems to keep it inside the content div. CSS makes me tear my hair out, hence the recycled code!

@Sasa: good to know you’re still around! Reading posts straight off the feedreader is pretty convenient when life’s hectic and/or internet access is limited so I can understand. But yeah, that old layout was really old! How times change…I’m glad you’ve started posting too – I watched the last episode of Time of Eve this week, and it’s wonderful. Expect posting on that too!

@Owen S: thanks! I prefer darker colours because they’re easier on the eyes but I didn’t want it looking too dull and gloomy. I think this is a happy medium that ought to last a while.

@Peter S: blogrolls for me offer the opportunity to list my personal recommendations; I’m not sure what the common custom is for them, but it’s basically a shortened ‘what I read’ list based off my feedreader subscriptions (which are one hell of a long list these days!)

@2DT: I loved the anime, but the novels go into even more detail – I highly recommend them. Watch this space!

By: 2DT

2DT — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:52:31 +0000

I’m looking forward to your thoughts on Crest of the Stars. I love that anime.

Liking the cleanup, too. But the original was never too bothersome to me to begin with.

By: Peter S

Peter S — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:34:29 +0000

I’m liking the look. The text feels easier to read. As for blogrolls, I’ve never really understood why one ought to have them, apart from courtesy for friend bloggers. When I vist a blog I almost never look at them.

By: Owen S

Owen S — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:00:16 +0000

Ah, soothing-on-the-eyes and darkly coloured, as usual. Good job! Can’t think of much else to say otherwise since it’s not obnoxious like a lot of blog themes are.

By: Sasa

Sasa — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:20:38 +0000

Have I ever mentioned that I rarely visited the site anymore while you had this black layout? I only read your postings on my feedreader during that time, haha. So yeah, props for the nice new layout! I hope it’ll stay for awhile, and in fact, it somehow reminds me of the very first layout I’ve seen of you (oh God, that must be about 3 years ago?)

I actually dislike blogrolls that are *not* on the sidebar, but I do understand that it clutters up the sidebar (also wow, my movie blog is still on your blogroll although I have only recently started to write for it again after several busy months of nothing).

By: lelangir

lelangir — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:58:35 +0000

also, you’re looking forward to aya hirano failsessions v2? I wanna see mizuki nana’s concert, then i’m out.

but i’ll probably watch it all anyway.

By: lelangir

lelangir — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:57:23 +0000

CSS seems very logical…but then again very counterintuitive, probably because I’m retarded and its system of defining terms is weird. wtf is float supposed to mean? your comment input text box is too wide!