Sean’s Blog

For a while now I’ve been using Remeber The Milk and while it is useful, the reason I’ve really come to love it is for how it lets me keep track of books.  I read a lot and, like most of you, I am always finding or hearing about books I would like to read.  The problem is that I can never remember them, let alone while I am browsing at the library or bookstore with eight thousand other books staring at me.

Enter Remember the Milk.  Whenever I run across a book that I might be interested in reading, I add it to the list.  Most of the time, I’ll  check  to see if it’s  available at my local library as well.

When I go to the library, I’ll check out some books from the list.  If I see anything that catches my eye browsing, I’ll add it to the list.  This is where the mobile feature of being able to use it on my Blackberry really shines.

When I get home, I’ll add a personal task to return the books I checked out due by the date and mark the books in the list as completed.  This system should really work with any task manager, but RTM just makes it really easy for me.

So the redesign I’ve been doing for seanelavelle.com is done. Here’s the new site and here is the old (both open in a new windows for your comparing enjoyment). I haven’t had a chance to upgrade the Wordpress installation like I had hoped, but the rest is finished. Readers of this blog shouldn’t see to much of a difference since it was mostly the static pages that I spent most of the time on.

I did hit one snag though. After I finished uploading everything, I showed Jess, and the first thing out of her mouth was “Wow, I hate that logo”. So several hours were spent Sunday redesigning it. By the time this posts, it will be the new logo, so I’m posting the new and old, side by side so you can compare.

Here’s the current logo:

Here’s the old logo:

Also, geeky web graphics tip that I learned: If you are doing anything that requires a transparent background, don’t save it as a JPG. Apparently (according to the Gimp’s export function) jpgs don’t do transparencies. Save it as a PNG and everything should be good.

In the last couple of months that I’ve been blogging, I’ve run across alot of terms that I wasn’t familiar with or that had been used in a different way then I was used to. I though it may be helpful to put together some of these terms in one place. This list is somewhat Wordpress-centric since it is the platform I am most familiar with, but alot of these terms are applicable to any software you choose.

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