Alison Young

This is just a quick post to make the transition all official. Such a small and otherwise unremarkable post as this is actually the first post I’m making from http://alison-young.com which is exciting for me.

For the meantime you’ll be seeing the WP Classic theme while I get things finetuned in the Ali theme. I’d prefer to have a potentially aesthetically unpleasing theme that’s complete over my aesthetically pleasing but fragmented theme. Please be patient, I’m working quite hard on this currently and using a combination of current self-taught and years ago university-taught skills to get things done. This may not be the most efficient method but certainly the most educational and interesting.

Update: following a couple more hours at tweaking the CSS I’m more satisfied with how things look now overall. Still puzzling over why the header seems to be approximately 2px to the right of everything else and also wish to adjust content order in right column in addition to applying text colour scheme from plan. To keep things rolling I’m switching focus from format to content for a while to give my mind a break after a day of deciphering and interpreting CSS.

Nostariel is the name I’ve given to my Dell Inspiron. Little ’sibling’ of Ielenia, my desktop machine.

Still a few things I need to fix to get things how I’d ideally like them. The problem with 915resolution is one I’d love dearly to solve, it’s a pain having to restart x after configuring it again after each boot. Maybe I can get clever and script it or something. Sound is a non-event in Xine and I can’t work out why. Also, this is the most novel and least troubling of my problems – I plug in headphones and the music comes through at full volume but rather than turning my speakers off, they go to half volume. It seems this has happened with a few machines. Sadly because it’s a notebook, it’s not as easy to solve as just turning off your speakers. Unless it’s something I can do in software.