Theme Change: Three Columns Of Goodness!

For the last few months - specifically, since March - Is There Food has been powered by the awesome K2 theme.

K2 is essentially designed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600. The stats for visitors to this site suggest that not many people actually use that resolution these days, and so I thought it was time to embrace the extra space and add a third column on the side.

Again, rather than reinvent the wheel, I thought I’d build on a theme that already existed. And, seeing as I’d become so well acquainted with K2, it made sense to use Bharath Kumar’s superb K2 modification: 3 Column K2 (or, as I like to think of it, 3K2).

It’s taken me a while. I’ve worked with several releases of 3K2, but never managed to get the theme to a usable stage before Bharath released the next version, and I started again. With the release of K2 0.9.1, and 3K2 0.9.1, I’m happy to say that I’m done.

Things aren’t quite finished yet - I need to spend a little more time tweaking the icons in the right-most side panel, for one thing - but I’m happy enough with how things look to start using 3K2 now.

If you find anything that looks odd, doesn’t work, falls over, breaks, or hurls abuse at you, please let me know. I’ll do my best to patch it up as quickly as is humanly possible. Unless, of course, the abuse is warranted.

Hopefully, at the very least, you’ll find things are quicker than they were before.

Thanks for reading, hope you like the tweaked design.

Wonderful things - two in an occasional series

1) I give you Shhh cards.

2) I give you "the granddaddy of all quantum wierdness".

This is a stunning little video that's certain to make your head hurt, but is highly recommended viewing. I've just watched it twice! I found it via digg, which I've heard an awful lot about but haven't really paid very much attention to. Until now…

Wallpaper

Tonight, I was having a browse around DeviantArt, trying to find some wallpaper for my new screen. Being widescreen, the new monitor doesn't really show off the vast majority of the wallpaper I've archived over the years so I'm trying to build up a new collection. Whilst browsing I found some really superb artwork, which I've linked to below. If you're not familiar with DeviantArt, it's well worth having a look around - there's bound to be something you like.

Justin Maller

Robert Maschke

Tigaer

And just in case you're curious as to which particular wallpaper I selected…

When is a watershed not a watershed?

The BBC have apparently received complaints (and have been slapped by OFCOM) because they showed Tarantino's Pulp Fiction ten minutes after the (9pm) watershed. Excuse me? What's the point of even having a watershed if you have to wait for sufficient amount of time before showing adult content! Perhaps we need to have layered watersheds, which allow increasingly extreme content as the evening gets later /sarcasm.

New design

I've put together another new design for the site, which is currently being integrated. By "integrated" I mean "hacked cheerfully". It's the best way.

If you experience weirdness, loss of hearing, itching, nausea, or involuntary spasms, enjoy it while it lasts (By this I mean: Comments look odd, but they work, asides don't look right, but that's a cosmetic thing, and the navigation bar might do odd things).

Sidebar

Sorry about the sidebar wierdness that's going on (if anyone actually notices that there is any wierdness: move along, nothing to see here, these are not the droids you're looking for), I'm playing again