This blog has been a bit quiet over the past few days, and believe me, it isn’t because I’ve been on vacation or anything. Apart from the ever-annoying client-work that I have to contend with (because apparently you can’t live on the combined Adsense proceeds of 3 unpopular community websites), I’ve been building a bunch of new things for Gibbity, including a private-messaging system, a "Refer-a-Friend"-type function and the oh-so-important social-networking component (yeah, my vision for Gibbity is a kind of Friendster-for-gamers … or MySpace-for-gamers, for those non-Filipinos who may be reading this).
I’ve also — and this is the part that I’ve been really enjoying — been reworking all of Gibbity’s CSS to comply with the Strict-mode Doctype. I don’t know why I didn’t do this from the start, but I’ve been learning alot of new CSS hacks along the way, which is always good. On the surface, you won’t see any difference of course; the rewrite is purely an ego-trip (although I do shave a few bytes off of the overall page size by using DIVs instead of TABLEs). As far as ego-trips go, this is definitely one of my more unnecessary forays, but hell, it’s super-fun to do.
So: still nothing substantial on this blog for the time being, friends and neighbors. My apologies again.
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If you’re into indie-rock and like Rilo Kiley or Metric or Call and Response, check out the Scandinavian band The Concretes. Their new album, In Colour, was released very recently and is just faaabulous. This 8-piece band(!) sounds like (how I imagine) hippies used to sing, back when love was in and being emo was romantic. (Download one of the In Colour tracks, "A Way of Life," here.)