Journal entries - November 2008
On typography
Typography is art. The proof is simple: try to design a font. No matter what you do, you’ll always end up with something that looks ugly. Unless you spend lots of time making in perfect.
Now, I’m no artist in the visual sense. But over a year ago, I discovered typography. Rather, I started looking at fonts differently.
Note: a font is a member of a typeface, much like Times New Roman Italic is a font whereas Times New Roman is a typeface.
iTunesque: small Aquaffic update
iTunes 8.0.2 came out, and as I guessed with 8.0.1, Apple is changing data within the iTunes resources at every update.
As such, if you apply one of the iTunesque variants with the “Aquaffic” traffic lights, stuff will go wrong.
Here is a small updater for these resources, and sorry for forgetting about it the other day when the update came out.
Agents of globalisation
Hello, citizens of the world.
As a casual poster of my thoughts on the world wide web, I am an agent of globalisation.
This is according to Lord Anthony Giddens, who gave us a very nice keynote on Tuesday on the three crises which plague our times: the globalisation crisis, the climate crisis and the financial crisis.
UCLouvain lecture notes
I have finally decided to make a standalone page for all the stuff that’s available to my fellow students in Law.
Note: because it’s a French-speaking University, the rest of this short post will be in French.
Tous les recueils et toutes les notes de cours sont donc disponibles à partir d’une page centralise, www.arpia.be/ucl/
Même plus besoin de s’enregistrer sur Droides.info (mime si je le conseille).
Design change
It’s kind of obvious, but arpia.be just underwent a change in design. The main goal is to make it cleaner and more… “professional”.
To whomever reads this, all positive & negative criticism is welcome (as long as it is constructive).
All about jazz
Today, I decided to finally record something that has been in my piano keyboard’s memory for nearly a month, a jazz/blues song (depends on what you consider to be jazz and blues, I guess, given that the two concepts are understood differently by everyone).
So, there we go, Thing-a-Ding can now be added to you list of most awesome or worst compositions ever. Your choice.