So it has been more than a while since I have posted anything here, but what can I say. Life gets busy and you forget about things that are low in priority. If it wasn’t for the fact that I have a lifetime account with TextDrive, this site would have been taken down months ago.

In any case, I’m back, at least for this one post. I just wanted to test out blogging with Windows Live Writer. I have used it to test on two other sites (Live Spaces and Wordpress.com), and I wanted to see how it worked with my own install of WordPress.

If things go well, I may start to blog more on SurplusCode on the different programming and technical related projects.

SurplusMeat is now running version 2.0.3 of WordPress. I haven’t noticed any bugs or problems yet. I’m still running version 2.0.2 on my local development box and on MetricsPad.

Also, I switched my theme to Hemingway Reloaded by WordpressLab. I chose it for its simplicity and liquid layout. Aside from the mods I’ve already made, I plan to give it a little bit more color and usability. I’ve already started by giving some of the anchor tags (and their hover states) the traditional blue hyperlink color.

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No offense to the original designer or all the “designers” out there, but why do they insist on making links hard to spot quickly. The blue text with underline just screams click me. Well, it doesn’t have to be blue, but you get the point. And while I’m on my soap box, why do so many sites make their default font size so small. For example, I visit Shaun Inman’s blog on a regular basis, and with each visit, I have to press Control + (plus sign) a couple times in Firefox to get the text size big enough so that I can actually read it. I understand that my monitor is set at a high resolution (1600×1200 at least), but Shaun is a smart guy. He can figure out that I’m at a high rez and offer me a different style sheet that makes his great content more readible by default.
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