There's a new design up at my portfolio. It's still in the works, but I think it looks a lot better than the old one, and it's pretty functional as is.

The goal was minimalism, so I hope it's nice and clean for you all.

The index page and some of the images will be changed. A lot of unneeded information was removed, and it was changed to only provide my e-mail.

The "Works"/projects page and the "Links" page were modified to make them more interesting. Screenshots of the links or projects are on the page, and when you hover over them, a description appears.

The new design works great in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and other browsers that support CSS3. In other browsers, the design is still functional, but it's not as clean looking.

So I hope you all enjoy the new look. Feel free to share your thoughts and what not.

So we were given an assignment to do basic texture mapping by doing a projective mapping of one video on top of another.

Here's my result:

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I'm participating in the Transformations Project. It's my first major poetic activity, and I'm really looking forward to it.

The person I'm partnered with is also looking forward to it (you can find her listed on the "Collaborators" page, but she's yet to send in her bio). Monica is a abstract artist, and her art is pretty interesting. This is also her first major artistic project (we're the "student" pair).

As for our topic, it's still a secrete. We do have one, but I don't want to spoil the surprise (or raise people's expectations too high).

My mom (and some others) said I should post some poetry. Here's a poem called "Do you see in color?"

Do you see in color?

If I lied to protect you,
If I cheated in order to save our world,
If I stole your heart and loved you forever,

Would you forgive me,
Or do you only see,
In Black and White.

So I wanted a remote Git repository that wasn't on GitHub or anything like that. Why? Well, sometimes I feel that I have dumb fun projects that are slightly misunderstood yet to be appreciated. Most of the time you have to pay in order to have a private repository. I don't really want them to be private, but I don't want them to be advertised on a social coding site (and maybe some people want to do this because they don't want to have trust others).

I'm not responsible if you try this and something breaks... Feel free to correct me in any spots if I'm wrong...

What is Git?

From Wikipedia

Git is a free distributed revision control, or software source code management project with an emphasis on being fast. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.

Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.

This covers how to setup a remote git hosting with Gitosis

What will be covered:

1. Downloading needed packages (like Python, Git, Gitosis, and others).
2. Compiling and installing those packages.
3. Setting up SSH Keys.
4. Getting Gitosis up and running.
5. Creating a new repo.

This is mostly a modified guide of dhmorgan's post and scie.nti.st's entry.

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So I'm using "Habari, a state-of-the-art publishing platform!"

I went with it because Jem seems to be liking it so far (Yup, she's been using it for about a week). I think I'll have to mess around with it a bit because I can't find any defaults or plugins to make it use SMTP for sending messages.

Anyways, I'm Miles, but metric seems to be preferred, and putting random punctuation around things seems to be cool, so I went with [k.m.]. Alright, so there are about 1.6 km in a mile, and I'm apparently plural, but if we imply 1 km, then that's about 0.6 miles, so I'm incomplete? Anyways. This post is just random until I finish my first true write-up.

I'm liking Habari's interface so far. It's minimal and free of distractions. I heard of Habari before, but it requires PHP 5, and I was on a server with PHP 4 back then (because it wasn't an easy task for server admins to run PHP 5 on a cPanel server). I'm now on a host "with the latest and greatest features for developers" which keeps most of the applications on the server to the latest standards (although there's some room for improvement).

So that's about it for now.