Transition to WordPress.com

I grew increasingly unhappy with Blogger, so I decided to move the Digital Den over to wordpress.com.

This has been a mixed blessing so far, because I had to hand-edit most of my previous posts to fit here. At least the HTML is now cleaner than what was previously produced by the Blogger WYSIWYG editor. Apropos editor – why the heck is the WordPress one missing justified alignment?! I find justified text just so much more readable and better looking – well, unless the spacing is screwed up…

There are a lot of features available Blogger lacks: Categories, the neat post preview function, included visitor stats, and a Blogroll. On the downside, I can’t freely edit the template. :-/

About that Blogroll-Thingy: I don’t actually know what a Blogroll is supposed to be. I know that you link to other blogs and stuff, but then again, it defaults to wordpress.com and wordpress.org. I guess I’ll just stick in a few of the blogs I read. And maybe next time actually write a post that has some interesting content…

I guess the problem is, that I just can’t decide whether to keep this thing just for fun or actually devote time to it, so it’s not so half-assed anymore.

Tags: WordPress, Blogroll, Dumb Content

Picasa coming to Linux?

During my daily websurfing I came across an article on DesktopLinux.com, where rumours are spread that Google software is soon to run on Linux. Apparently Google is in contact with CodeWeavers to make this happen.

CodeWeavers is known for its modified Wine-version called CrossOver Office, which – you guessed it – runs Microsoft Office under Linux. Apparently Google would like CW to do the same with its own software, starting with Picasa. Neither of the two companies did comment on the issue though; the article invokes “Sources close to the project”.

Apart from this uncertainity, the thing that bothered me most was the part about other Google applications following suit, if Picasa was successful.

Sure, Picasa is nice, but there are already good alternatives for the Linux Desktop (e. g. iOta, digiKam). Google Earth on the other side, is very tricky to set up using Wine only.

I can understand that they want to try this with a comparatively simple program like Picasa first, but honestly, Picasa is not exactly the Google program the Linux Desktop needs – and hence, it might not exactly be successfull. I hope that’s not going to be the point that denies us other Google Applications…

Tags: Google, Picasa, Linux, Wine

Cool Text

After previously posting about an ASCII Generator, I thought I’d also share the link to Cool Text, a website that lets you render a custom Text Logo.

The FAQ says, that the image can be used without restriction, so I set out to create a Logo for this blog.The image was not very optimized size-wise, so I recompressed it with OptiPNG. That reduced the filesize by more than a third – Makes people on slow connections happy. ;-)

Time to put it up.

Aww, damn. Call me stupid, but I can’t insert the image into the template; the CSS keeps messing up everything… :-(

Well, I can at least post it below, so that you get an idea of what Cool Text-Logos look like: