Squircle is the new rounded rectangle
I finally got the stuff moved to another and better web server (very kindly provided by my dad) so hopefully response times will be quite a bit lower than before. I must say, WordPress requiring more than what the old server was capable of delivering was somewhat of a disappointment, but hell, one’s got to get with the times. Standardization over bastardization, glossy gradients over semi-transparency and squircle is the new rounded rectangle!
All this server-raum means a couple of things besides response times. First of all, there may be problems that I haven’t discovered, so let me know if you encounter some. Second, in my experience webmail, ViewVC and stuff has gotten a lot more responsive to the point of actually being usable, so to those affected by that, do enjoy!
July 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Super cool with a more responsive server, madsen! Thumbs up.
What do you mean that squircle is the new rounded rectangle? You know that making fancy words is a core part of academia.
Moving away from semi-transparency is another matter though. I don’t under stand that one. A part from not having constructed language, that makes sense by adding properties from one word to another when they meet — or fleeing from building a language that rimes with ‘newspeak’ — what justifies it?
July 30th, 2007 at 3:40 am
Actually, ’squircle is the new rounded rectangle’ just refers to my dislike for over-use of rounded rectangles on websites. I’m more into the squircle (or super ellipsis, if you will) for the time being. (Maybe because I totally want Piet Hein’s Super Ellipsis dinner table for our living room… Or maybe just a cheap knock-off, since I don’t really feel like shelling out €2k for a table at this very moment.)
I’m not sure what you mean by the second part of your comment or maybe I’m just too tired, but would you care to elaborate a bit on it?
July 31st, 2007 at 6:42 pm
I would just like to add “huh” and superellipsis is cool.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Also.. what’s the new hardware?
I have plenty of old hardware if there are any takers. I’ve had it with old hardware — that’s why I opted to buy a HP server a couple of months back, just for the home-lan. I still rely on renting hardware for the hosting “franchise” :-)
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:30 am
The new hardware, is actually just an old workstation, but where the old web server was a 633 MHz Celeron w/ 128 MB RAM, the new(er) one is a 1.2 GHz Athlon with something as odd as 448 MB RAM or so – if I recall correct, and it’s running Ubuntu (7.04/Feisty Fawn).
There aren’t many thing I’d like more than a brand spankin’ new server, but I don’t have teh monies (and I’d probably rather spend them on a Wii, if I did).
August 14th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Erm, we know the meaning of ’semi’ and ‘transparency’. So when we connect them to form a new word, semi-transparency, we kind of already know what that means. Thats what i mean by a “constructed language”. I might well be called something else in academia. Such “constructed-ness” rimes with newspeak [1], doesn’t it? Hence moving away from using a constructed word like semi-transparency and instead use a non-constructed word like glossy gradients is (in maybe sloppy logic) like moving way from a languages that rimes with newspeak.
Was that more clear? Was it clear enough?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
August 14th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Words such as “semi-transparent” and “glossy gradients” are both composite words (komposita el. sammensatte ord på dansk), the hyphen doesn’t make a difference. I’m not entirely sure what you mean, but if you’re suggesting that our language becomes poorer (vocabulary-wise) when we use composite words, then I’ll have to disagree.
People don’t forget the meaning of the word “bad” if they say “ungood”, and besides, “ungood” can be understood as meaning “not good, but still better than bad” and then there’ll still be room for both “good”, “ungood” and “bad” in the language. (True synonyms are hard to find, thus, there’ll always be situations where one is more preferable than the other.)
I’m wondering, what triggered this question, was it “squircle” or “semi-transparency”? (Just for the record, I didn’t invent the word “squircle” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle .)