Yes, I’ve finally finished my site redesign. It went through a fair few different designs before settling on this one: from a forest theme, to big blocks of primary colours, to very dark designs.

This particular design was done last night (and this morning), built largely on top of one of the unused designs. While I’m reasonably happy with it and tested it thoroughly, it’s still in a state of flux. Anything can change (especially since I found some interesting colour combinations that I didn’t have time to experiment with fully), bugs might creep in here or there, but it’s essentially done for now.

To be honest, I just wanted to get it out of the way so I can get some other work done. Having too many projects on the go at once is a bad thing, absolutely none of them get done.

Update: I’ve also started using an xml-stylsheet processing instruction for browsers that can handle it.

A few things I spotted today:

• On Writing Short – “Users just won’t read the instructions”. They never do. Obvious but useful advice.
• Interactive Go tutorial – Learn how to play the game, Go. I’ve always wanted to know how to play this game. Now I at least know the basics. Via Laughing Meme.
• Distance Calculator – Type in two locations and it’ll tell you the distance between them. I’ve been looking for this sort of thing for a fair while.
• Movie Physics – Haven’t had a proper look around this site yet, but it does what it says on the tin; talks about movie physics. Could be dull as dishwater, or interesting. No idea.

There should be a big change tomorrow, just you wait.

This is one of the oddest things I’ve seen in a while. Dasher is a way to input text using nothing but a mouse (or other pointing device).

You “drive” the mouse towards oncoming letter blocks, which lead to more letters, and eventually spell out words. The predictive features and adjustable scroll speeds mean that once you get your head around it, you can write essays pretty fast.

Infact, I wrote this entire entry using this program; HTML and all (Dashblogging, if you will). Given a bit more time to get used to it (it really is a bizarre thing at first), I think it could be very handy for various applications, particularly mobile input.

With a title like Freddy Vs Jason, it was never going to be a classic. As should be expected, the acting is awful and the premise is weak at best. You can pretty much guess everything else about it.

To be honest, though, I’m not entirely sure how much I disliked this film (I did dislike it though). I had such low expectations of it that it easily managed to surpass them; being watchable even if mostly terrible. So, while it’s about as scary as a kitten in a cotton wool jacket, it’s not as bad as you might think. Go see it? Still no.

Lazy days abound: More random links.

• Interactive Bullet Time demo – A fun little flash demo, showing off panning around 3d models,
• The Real Underground – See just how warped the London Underground map is with this flash map from the transport museum website,
• The Creatures In My Head – Just plain weird. Odd little monster drawings.
• Snakoban – An odd mix of games, but quite addictive. Just don’t use the X key to cheat.

That’s enough for today. More to follow.