doyce testerman

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Returning, briefly, to periscope depth

First of all, this is me:

Except I’m not a little red-haired girl, and there’s more swearing. Christ, allergies? Really? It’s still snowing, for fuck’s sake.
Ah, March in Colorado.
Anyway.
So, although I’ve technically been laid off, I’ve got a couple projects going on that make it seem a whole lot like I’m gainfully employed.
The first and foremost [...]

May I direct your attention…

Things have been a skosh quiet on the blog over the weekend, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been tappity-tap-tapping else where within the intertubes.
Mostly notably, if you’re interested in a fun, VERY challenging board game, may I direct you to this post on my gaming blog: We got our butts kicked by Shadows over [...]

The Compleat Obsessionist

“Find your obsession. Every day, explain it to one person you respect [...] and try not to be a dick.” — Merlin Mann, 43 Folders
While bowling this week (which I do with Kate, two of my gamer friends, and one gamer’s better half) I was talking with Tim about various ways one could cook up [...]

Victory!

I’ve have tweaked the single-post page layout so that the comments appears alongside the original post.  This (in my opinion) lends both the relative importance they deserve, and conveys a kind of “margin notes” design that appeals.

This is the Fail Bear

Twitter has a Fail Whale… I have this lovable guy.
I will be trotting him out after days like this, during which I wrestle for several hours with things that shouldn’t really be broken in the first place, only to finally ‘fix’ it by putting it back the way it originally was.

So here’s something I didn’t know (or forgot)

There’s this thing that one of my coworkers pointed out today that I’d forgotten about. We were checking out links on the company database web interface, and he told me to switch to using IE for our meeting “because Firefox doesn’t pop up the text description of the link”.
Wha? I was confused, because [...]

Just some notes to myself on things to do with the wordpress code.

Get Your Wordpress Settings Right
Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers

The number you are trying to reach…

Things have been a little crazy in my personal corner of the Internet for the last couple weeks.  Let me see if I can give you a tour and tell you where I moved all the furniture:
Changed

My ‘main’ blog, which was at www.doycetesterman.com/journal.html, is now right at doycetesterman.com. It also has a new design, which [...]