I am running a triple-boot (Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 and a patched Mac OS X 10.6.3) on a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Intel Core 2 Duo, 250 GB HDD and 3 GB Ram, and using Grub 2 as the bootloader. A few days ago, Debsankha, one of my collegemates, installed for me the last of …
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Inquivesta Wallpaper
I designed this wallpaper for Inquivesta 2011. I just took the logo and inverted the colours. Hope you like it. By the way, I decided, right now, to participate in WordPress’ Post a Week 2011 Challenge (I’m not so sorry now that I migrated from Live Spaces – it’s frankly cooler here), starting with this …
Default fonts in Chrome appear in Italics
Most of my pages in Google chrome on Ubuntu 10.10 were showing text in bold and italics. I tried changing the default font settings of the browser, but those were okay. Then I tried to change the chrome theme, but that didn’t work either. Then I found a couple of threads that addressed the issue, …
Engraved Text!
While working on the Inquivesta website, I decided that I wanted to get rid of as many of the elements of the original template as possible, and replace them with my own stuff. Among them were the buttons. I tried a few things. The first idea was the Mandelbrot set, in a pillow sort of …
Want to learn HTML? Design a website!
The quote went something like the following: 'The best way to teach yourself something is to write a book about it.' I found out the truth of this statement over the past few days, when I was designing the Inquivesta 2011 website. A week back, I knew more about shearing sheep than I did about writing HTML …
One Life 