Something Interactive

Well that’s it!
I’m officially pledging my future endeavors as requiring a sustainability focus.
It is NOT dramatic to think that I could possibly have a hand in the extinction of my own race, and further ruin the environment that currently is waning to sustain me and my fellow people.

What is there is just as important as what isn’t there.
Tracking lower text isn’t evil, but do it appropriately.
No rulebook to kerning text, it’s YOUR eyes that are the judge.

If you’re a multi-window user (windows not maximized to full screen) or have a computer with a lower resolution and navigate to anybody’s Twitter page, you may have problems viewing their background image because of the twitter page framework that overlays on the page.

I came across a couple blogs that solely advertised their services of creating eye-catching, advertising backgrounds for anyone’s Twitter page.

This my friends, is a HUGE rip-off – and here’s why:

1. Twitter’s backgrounds are left aligned, yet their content framework is center aligned. This will always block the background at inconvenient proportions.
2. If you try to display information like phone numbers, email addresses, or website addresses in the background picture (as a result of point 1) will be cut off or impossibly unreadable due to the maximum amount of space available between the left side of the page and the left side of the content framework.
3. People who are savvy enough to use Twitter, don’t even use the Twitter website, in favour of social media aggregator/updater apps. They sanitize the content to just the Tweets alone, so the backgrounds aren’t even seen.

I don’t have statistics on how many people use Twitter, what their resolutions or screen sizes are, or what apps they use to aggregate Twitter with, but not once have I ever been impressed with someone’s twitter background that has advertising material to promote themselves. Phone numbers, email or website addresses are constantly cut off, and even photos of the Twitter profile user are cut off or whatever they are trying to sell is cut off or blocked by the Twitter content framework.

Twitter needs to add a little more customization to their user profile stylesheet management first before I would ever consider using the background of my Twitter page as another avenue to advertise myself.
Instead, for my Twitter profile, I have ingeniously used one of my artwork pieces and created a simple pattern out of it; there isn’t any important information being cut off, and aesthetic quality of the background image adds a truly unique expression of creativity.

And those other people who are charging money to create custom Twitter backgrounds, I tip my hat off to you; you’re making money from being scrupulous thieves and selling graphics that don’t do their job very well.

The following screen shots were taken at the very popular 1024×768 resolution.

I need to put this as a post on my site as I often forget what permission settings are and their corresponding numbers are for CHMOD and the like.

1 execute
2 write
3 execute+write
4 read
5 execute+read
6 write+read
7 execute+read+write

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.