Strange Liferea bug

Liferea, my feedreader of choice, has a rather odd bug invoked by the scroll wheel. If I hover over the pane resizing widget between the list of items and current item display and scroll down, the entire right pane disappears. Scrolling back up returns it to normal view, but it seems a little odd.

I’m not entirely sure where I’m scrolling to, either… I’m half expecting the next feed item to appear, or something, but it just goes to blank UI chrome. Most odd.

Update: Turns out it’s been fixed already, I’m just having the problem because my version is oldish (as a result of me using Ubuntu’s package repository/apt system).

Rose Fu and Unsent Letters

Stumbled across someone called Rose Fu’s portfolio site today, and was suitably impressed by the design. Markup isn’t quite perfect, but it’s just good to see people achieving this kind of thing with CSS-based design. (Read “this kind of thing”: conventionally very sliced-and-diced table-design).

Also of interest was her very Post Secret-esque project, Unsent Letters. Sure, a lot of it is as bad as angsty Fan Fiction, but it’s an interesting idea nonetheless. I’ve only looked at it for a few moments, but it seems to be generally much worse than Post Secret is (in terms of the angsty teenager thing). The submission instructions say you don’t have to be concise, and I think that might have been its demise — part of Post Secret’s beauty is it’s such a concise medium (sure, it’s visual), and allows some degree of obfuscation whilst still sharing experience or thought. But hey, it’s a different tool, and it’s possibly helpful for people to write to… I just think the fact that it’s published is somewhat self-defeating, because the whole thing really doesn’t seem as though it’s meant to be read. Which I suppose fits with the whole Unsent Letter thing, but it’s not really as though it need be published, either. Shrug. Reach Out! has a similar facility, that simply destroys what you submit. Conversly, I think that seems very futile…

I think Post Secret hits a nice middle ground, that’s concise (hence accessible) and creative (hence cathartic). Anyway… a post about a nice website transformed itself, weird.

My pre-HSC seminar timetable

HSC officially bad for you

Oh dear. I stumbled across this web address in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.nohsc.gov.au/

It’s actually the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission’s (NOHSC) website, but that in itself makes the link even clearer: The HSC poses an occupational health and safety risk, as is evident even in the URL of this organisation!

Some numbers from year12.joahua.com

For that photo website at that elusive domain name.

Time from the idea to a site live:

Six hours

Time from a live site to a functional site:

About a day

Lines of code to make it go (markup, CSS, PHP):

2001

Number of unique visitors:

309

Average number of visitors per day:

85

Visitors downloaded:

325MB/day, or 2.95GB

Overall transfers:

3.21GB

Number of albums:

26

Number of (known) contributors:

10

Number of photos:

(Probably well) over 1200 (hard to count, because of source and thumbnails being stored as they are)

Total size of site:

498MB

Total size of photos:

345MB (overhead is mostly in upload archives I haven’t deleted yet)

Shell scripts rewritten to do little things from the console that I’d taken for granted on the desktop:

Too many. But it made me learn something, so that’s cool.

And now for the important statistics! (Because I’m a pessimist ;-))

Number of photos that would still fit:

At least 4 times as many as there currently are!

Amount of extra bandwidth that could have been transferred:

At least 8 times as much, but we didn’t do too badly seeing as that was nine days, and the quotas are done monthly.

So… this means if you still haven’t uploaded photos, do so!

On another note, I’m thinking about implementing that upload thing Michael blogged about (or rather, linked to ;-) That doesn’t actually qualify as posting: you’ve still got a way to go before you redeem yourself for lack of that of late!) on the form to make life easier for people who don’t seem to be able to follow my pretty straightforward (I even made pretty screenshots!) “How to make a ZIP file” guide. Ah, technology.