Viva Le Gaelic Penguin!
Phew! After much fiddling and tweaking I finally managed to get my header image together for this site. All the while I had the song “The Irish Rover” bouncing round in my head - which probably didn’t help matters!
But I think the above header was worth it. Veronica, my glamorous girlfriend and graphic design mentor, didn’t like it much to start with. At least I managed to pacify her by throwing in a cute penguin pic, which I did up in the absolutely fabulous Inkscape. Inkscape has to be one of the best Free Software programs ever. It’s just so easy to use and yet things just always turn out good. It’s magic. And that’s just the kind of thing you’ll be hearing more about on this blog over the coming months along with other news and discussion from the filthy dirty world of Open Source.
Just a heads up for anyone trying to change their WordPress header image - make sure that you haven’t changed the header’s colours or anything previously in WordPress. If you have made changes then you should revert them - which can be done from the dashboard. Otherwise all the image uploading and CSS styling in the world won’t be enough to get that flamin’ header to change! Now there’s an hour of my life that I won’t get back! At least I had The Irish Rover playing away in the back of my head to keep me going…
Doo do doo…
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:37 pm
It’s a shame that Inkscape doesn’t have a spellchecker built into it, or you might have spotted the spelling “Pengiun” in your image!
Aaah well, I guess you get what you pay for!
June 23rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
D’oh! I spent a good deal of time making sure I got ‘penguin’ right when registering the domain, writing posts, etc. But unfortunately I had one too many Baileys when doing up the logo at 2 in the morning…
As for the “I guess you get what you pay for!” all I can say is enjoy SourceSafe!
June 23rd, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Don’t Drink and Inkscape! Speaking of which, where’s my bourbon..
I wouldn’t joke too much about SourceSafe - if all goes well on Monday then the two of you may soon be reunited!
June 23rd, 2007 at 7:16 pm
After all my prior painful divorces from SourceSafe I think I’d find it difficult to take her back again. After all she’s done to me - the code she’s deleted, the merges she’s messed up, the other developers she’s screwed around with. No… It’s all too much…
“Is it safe to check out the data layer?”
June 23rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
See, that’s a trick question: IT’S NEVER *SAFE* TO CHECK OUT THE DATA LAYER!
Maybe a company advertising that they use SourceSafe is like a professional web developer gloating that they use nothing but Notepad (or VI) to develop their sites? “We use crap tools, but yet we still manage to develop code?”
I’m still trying to think of a reason why someone would advertise and be proud of the fact that they chose SourceSafe.. be sure and ask them on Monday wtf they were thinking there!