Based on the clean lines of a Slax screenshot, satin_blue is made up of soft blues and warm grays. Included in the style are 3 matching bsetroot backgrounds and 3DC code to coordinate Window appearance.
You can download the matching wallpaper I designed for this style here.
satin_blue is a style designed for bblean, but should work for any other *box shell replacement. Find out more about blackbox at bb4win.org, and see *box styles in action at box.crackmonkey.us.
Just thought of an old game I once saw in Nintendo Power, back when I had a Game Boy, about ten games, and dreams of pixels, pixels, pixels. The game I had in mind was an NES point-and-click detective adventure, my memory inspired by a recent TTLG thread.
I had forgotten the name, but only recalled a phrase from the game: Vortex Slain! I remember reading the review in Nintendo Power, like so many other games, knowing I’d never get the chance to play it, since it would require my parents to buy me the following: an NES, a color TV, and the game. Why would they do that? “Boy, you already got a Game Boy. Will Smiff, you’re right, parents just don’t understand.
Ok, back to today. Searching for “vortex slain nes” turned up this article on ClassicGaming.com. Five minutes later, I had the game, a decent emulator, and hq3x rendering placing this 14-year-old game on my desktop:
It is a good time to be a nerd.
Well so I’ve finally caved into the latest popular internet lemonade stand idea: the web log. Although I unofficially hold blogs (even the word blog) in some disdain, writing is good, and we all should do it. I should do it. The next step, of course, is to do one’s best to pull one’s head out of the little bubble world that blogwriting naturally creates, but we’ll get to that later.
So far, very impressed with blogsome.com. WordPress is some nice software and I have a complex control panel sitting behind it all to fine-tune everything. One thing I’m concerned about though: no obtrusive ads. Why would this concern me?
Well, where’s blogsome getting its money to support my little free blog? Are they a startup that will soon be bought out by a larger company, who will later seed my site with popups, frame-ads, worthless flash, and other annoyances? Or worse, do their terms of use (which one must agree to in order to blog here) say that everything that I write becomes their property?
A quick scan of the terms of service don’t seem to say anything suspicious, but it does have this surprising little tidbit: “Any disputes, claims or proceedings arising out of or in any way relating to the blogsome.com web site shall be governed by the laws of Ireland.”
Say whaa??? That’s not weird in and of itself, but it is unexpected. Potentially hilarious for someone whose sole knowledge of Ireland comes from the Disney classic Darby o’Gill and the Little People. (Starring Sean “Screw You Trebek” Connery, if you can but dig it.) What would be really silly is if the blog site wasn’t even in Ireland.
Either way, if you’re using Firefox with the wonderful AdBlock extension, chances are you’re not seeing any ads anyway, on this site, nor any other. And you’re probably just as smug about it as I am.
Now, why can’t I stop thinking of Milhouse saying to Lisa Simpson (playing Joan of Arc) “You are as blogsome as you are toothsome?”
wash me waggle my eyebrowsh darbeh
