Tango Theme for Firefox

November 9, 2006 by Steven Garrity

Garrett LeSage and a group of other good people have completed a nice upgrade of the Tango theme for Firefox 2. The theme brings the icons from the Tango Desktop Project to Firefox along with many improvements in making Firefox look and feel more like a native application on Linux.

There are also a series of “sub-themes” as well. The Gnome sub-theme matches with the default Gnome icon theme, Tangerine matches with the Ubuntu theme, and Industrial for the old Industrial Gnome theme.

Highly recommended for those using Firefox on Linux. There are rumblings of an update for the Tango theme for Thunderbird 2 as well.

November 7, 2006 by Steven Garrity

Advertising in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth

Design by Disaster on the CBC Website

November 7, 2006 by Steven Garrity

The CBC.ca website has been down or running in a minimal state due to “technical difficulties” for the last two days.

The stripped-down version of the site they put up in the mean time looks better than the full working version:

Halloween Highlight

October 31, 2006 by Steven Garrity

The first trick-or-treat-er that came to our house this Halloween had a lit cigarette. I kid you not. That said, it still beats the first year at this house, when I had a handful of Unicef money stolen.

October 27, 2006 by Steven Garrity

“E-Try It On” Sunglasses Tool – web-twenny for sunglasses

Firefox 2

October 24, 2006 by Steven Garrity

Since you are on the internet right now (admit it, you are), you are probably aware that Firefox 2 has been released. My congratulations to all involved. While I was much less involved in the visual design this time around, it was still a pleasure to have been involved at all.

The Mozilla.com website has been updated as well. This website update was something that I was much more involved with than the actual browser update. The design itself was done by the Nobox Marketing Group (get it?) with the implementation handled by our team at silverorange and the good people at Mozilla.

My favourite new feature in Firefox 2 (after the spell checking and recently-closed tabs, that is): Try entering a math formula into the Google search box (I’d recommend 57 * 4 / pi). Notice that the solution to your formula is instantly displayed in the suggested results. Thanks to Paul Kim for pointing out this gem.

Signs of the Times

October 14, 2006 by Steven Garrity

From my neighbours’ truck:

Other signs of the times:

Watch out for baddies – bank machine in Charlottetown
Mind your head – on the ferry to Les Îles de la Madeleine
Urgent bathroom – at an Irving gas station, somewhere
Don’t “Worry” the wildlife – Hyde Park, London
Down Under Shampoo – Pharmacy in Charlottetown
Gender bias at Mozilla – Mozilla summit, 2005
Don’t Poach Me Bitches! – eco-grafitti in a San Francisco restaurant washroom
Waring: you may be chosen by god – forget where…
Small print at Krispy Kreme – at a Krispy Kreme in Mountain View, California

More photos of signs of the times.

Predicting the Future of Late Night

October 14, 2006 by Steven Garrity

Now that Conan O’Brien is locked in for taking over the Tonight Show from Jay Leno (it’s old news, I know), I have a prediction the other late night show.

In a few years, I predict David Letterman will hand over his show to Jon Stewart.

October 11, 2006 by Steven Garrity

Beautiful photo by a friend at another friends’ house in Massachusetts.

Hunting for GeoCachers

October 5, 2006 by Steven Garrity

During a long drive, a few of us invented a new sport: Hunting for geocachers. Here’s how it works:

Go to a geocaching website and enter a location for geocachers to find.
Place a trap at this location. Possible traps include a hole covered over with light foliage, a rope-that-grabs-you-and-hangs-you-by-the-foot trap, a web-cam, or the classic tibia-snapping bear trap.
Wait.
Return to see what nerdly game you have caught.

Acts of Volition

Year: 2006