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domingo, julio 24, 2005

I learned about fonts yesterday

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Since I was a little under the weather, feeling tired about being woken up far too early, I spent the majority of the day yesterday learning about fonts (the way letters look).

In the beginning, Linux did not have any vector fonts that looked good on the screen--a vector font being a font that can become any arbitrary size and printed without looking blocky. Linux used one set of fonts, called bitmapped fonts, to display information on the screen, and another set of fonts to print out documents. These fonts looked more or less like each other. This allowed the screen fonts to look very attractive on the screen, and the printing fonts to look attractive on paper. Since paper has a lot more resolution than a computer screen, the fonts should be different.

The main disadvantage to this approach was that the screen fonts could only be displayed in a small number of different point sizes, such as 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, and 20 point. There was no way to have a 9-point screen font. This made things difficult for word processors, since you either had to have a nice-looking screen font which often wasn't quite the same size as what would be printed, or use a printing font on the screen that looked unattractive until it was printed. For the web, however, it was a reasonable compromise.

Microsoft chose a different approach. Once the web started to become popular, Microsoft hired font designer expert Matthew Carter to design a font that would look very attractive on the screen at any resolution, and look reasonably attractive when printed. The crown jewel of his labor was the Verdana font, which Microsoft made available as a free download in a Windows-specific .exe format, since a lot of Windows machines didn't have these fonts available at the time.

And, indeed, the Verdana font is a very attractive screen font. There is plain simply no other vector font that is this attractive on the screen.

Verdana was designed at a time when computer displays normally could display only 256 colors. As a result, it is very well optimized to display using only two colors.

Well, a few years passed and Linux became a more viable desktop operating system. Computer displays also became far more advanced, being able to display thousands or millions of colors on the screen. This made a technology, called font anti-aliasing, possible.

Anti-aliasing is a technology that makes a font appear to have more resolution than the screen has by using grey (or even color on some displays) tones to simulate a given pixel having some black and some white dots at a resolution higher than the screen resolution. Because of the way human vision works, this is a very convincing illusion that makes fonts appear to have more detail and be more attractive.

Once this anti-aliasing technology became viable, a font that looks very nice when anti-aliased, Bitstream Vera, was developed and made available for Linux. Bitstream Vera is a very attractive font, which rivals Verdana when anti-aliasing is turned on.

However, not everyone, including myself, fully likes anti-aliasing. The problem is that anti-aliasing makes the fonts look a little blurry; many people's eyes compensate for this by trying to focus on the fonts, which results in fatigue and eyesore. Anti-aliased fonts can give me migrane headaches if I look at them too long.

After I figured out how to set up .fonts.conf to disable anti-aliasing, the very attractive Bitstream Vera fonts were no longer so attractive. One reason why no one has bothered to improve the non-anti-aliased look of Bitstream Vera is because Verdana uses a patented technology called font hinting, to look attractive when not anti-aliased. Linux, being open-source, can not use this patented technology in countries with software patents without being open to lawsuits.

The way I have worked around this issue is to download a program that uses this patented technology from a country that doesn't have software patents.

The real solution to this mess is to have some geek add a feature to Firefox that will have it use the old bitmapped fonts for the critical resolutions where a bitmapped font looks better than an anti-aliased font, and only use anti-aliased fonts for other resolutions.

In the meantime, I have legally downloaded the Verdana font and installed it on my Linux machine. Indeed, when Linux geeks figured out how to legally download and install these Windows fonts on to Linux systems, Microsoft very soon stopped making these beautiful fonts available on their web page. Fortunatly, for Linux geeks, Microsoft's license allows people to continue to make these fonts available on other web pages. I have also configured my .fonts.conf to not use anti-aliasing for the Verdana font.

Some further reading:

A description of the design process Microsoft used to design the Verdana font

A font test I set up to see how Verdana, Bitstream Vera Sans, Georgia, and Bitstream Vera Serif look at all possible hinting and anti-aliasing settings. Includes PNG screenshots.

Information on the patents that make font hinting unavailable for Linux

How to legally install Verdana and other Microsoft fonts in Linux

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sábado, julio 23, 2005

Part two of that dream

Emoticón actual:  asustado/a

In a recent blog entry I described the first part of a two-part dream I had 22 years ago.

In this entry, I will describe the second part.

In the first part of the dream, it was nighttime, yet peaceful and well-moonlit. The stars were very bright and serene. In the second part of the dream, while it was still nighttime, things were not as peaceful. We couldn't see any stars in the sky, and there was a distinct yellow-red tint to the sky near the horizion, similar to what you get in areas with a large number of sulpher vapor lights on a cloudy night.

I was with a large group of kids who were interested in video games, including my then-casual-friend Mark. We were in this contest that Atari (a then-large maker of video games) was running near their Sunnyvale headquarters. We had to perform a number of actions to win this contest, and it was this team of us kids playing the contest together, running from place to place to try and win the contest.

We finally made it to the ultimate challenge--but the place with the "ultimate challenge" did not seem like a good place. It was a place which made me uneasy. There was a huge ghostlike skull at the entrance to this ominous place. We, as a group, ignored the skull and the danger it represented and entered this place.

It started off as a cave, but then became some kind of eerie vertical shopping mall. We were happy in the place; there were a lot of cool things in this mall, such as a Ronald McDonald playground that we enjoyed playing in. Yet, at the same time, there were dark shadows in the corners that seemed a little uneasy. We continued to ignore the unease and went up this mall, floor after floor. We couldn't see the end of the mall; it just kept going up without end, level after level.

I started to wonder about this place. We didn't see anything so tall when we entered the place--we saw just a mound in the ground. How could this place have become so endlessly high and tall?

I finally broke off from the group and ended up in this dark and scary room with this closed curtain. The curtain being closed scared me--it made things too dark--so I opened up the curtain. I could see light and a stairwell leading to the next level beyond the open curtain. Content the curtain was open, I turned around.

When I looked at the curtain again, it was closed. Even though I opened it. I opened it again. A moment later, when I wasn't paying attention to the curtain, it closed again.

I then realized why this place never stopped ascending vertically and woke up with a chill.

- Sam

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viernes, julio 22, 2005

CSS tutorial part two: Colors

This tutorial continues where my last CSS tutorial ended. In this tutorial I will discuss setting up colors in CSS.

In the last tutorial, we learned how to add CSS to a myspace profile.

We learned that this CSS will make the sides of your myspace profile black. In this tutorial, will will learn how to make the sides any other color.

The CSS 1 specification only allows sixteen colors to be directly named. A modern computer can display a lot more than 16 different colors--most modern computers can display some 16 million colors. So, how do we specify other colors?

While there are a number of ways that a color can be named in the specification, including the most-commonly-used hexadecimal notation, this notation can not be used in a standards-compliant way on myspace because the profile editor removes the hash character. So, the way need to specify colors here is via rgb(red-level,green-level,blue-level).

Any possible color can be made by combining red, green, and blue. The way these three colors combine to make any color is different than mixing paints; when mixing paints, blue and yellow make green. Here, yellow is made by mixing green and red. With paints, all colors mixed together results in black; with colors on the world wide web, all colors mixed together result in white.

In CSS, rgb(0,0,0) means that red, green, and blue are all at 0 percent itensity, resulting in a black background. This can be changed to a number of different colors. As just a few examples, rgb(255,255,255)corresponds to white; rgb(255,0,0) corresponds to red, rgb(255,255,0) corresponds to yellow; rgb(255,128,0) corresponds to a color between red and yellow (namely, orange); rgb(0,255,0) corresponds to green; rgb(0,0,255)corresponds to blue; rgb(255,0,255) corresponds to magenta (a combination of pink and purple); rgb(192,192,192) corresponds to a light gray; rgb(128,128,128)corresponds to a medium gray; rgb(64,64,64) correponds to a dark gray; and rgb(255,128,128) corresponds to a pastel red (pink, to be more precise).

Basically:

red green = yellow
red blue = magenta (hot pink; make more blue than red to get purple)
green blue = cyan (a light turquoise)
red green blue = white

It is important to include the percent in these values; otherwise the values use computer-friendly numbers where 0 corresponds to 0 percent and 255 corresonds to 100 percent. Read section 6.3 of the CSS 1 specification for all of the hairy details.

This tutorial used to have examples, but myspace's editor no longer lets me put example CSS in a blog entry.  Here is a blog entry which shows CSS color examples

In my next CSS tutorial, I will discuss setting up a background image with css.

- Sam

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Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage
Por: Visage
Fecha de publicación: 22 February, 1994

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jueves, julio 21, 2005

A very important dream I had many years ago

Emoticón actual:  somnoliento/a

I will continue my CSS tutorial tomorrow.

22 years ago, in the summer of 1983, I had the most important dream I have had my life. The dream had a lot of symbolism I still, to this day, do not fully understand. I came to realize, six years after having this dream, that it was God's first attempt to communicate with me.

This dream occured at night. I was in a dark, yet peaceful and serene place. I was walking up a modern-looking wooden tower. At the top of the tower was Greg, a camp consoler for a camp I was about to go to (in real life). I started talking to Greg. We talked about searching for the ghost.

The next scene in the dream was inside the tower. We were in a well lit room, talking about the ghost and the importance of finding this ghost. I did not know how to find the ghost. Then the door opens. Someone, who I knew was named Peter, entered. He looked really pale.

I told him "You must have seen a ghost"
He replied, "I have. Come follow me to see the ghost for yourself"

I went with him in to the dark. This part of the dream I do not remember very well, but it was a dark path and I needed Peter's guidance to lead me on the path.

We ended up in what looked to be a bright quarry. It was a place where the stars were shining really brightly, and rapidly twinkling to the point of blinking. The ground was white, glowing in this light that was like moonlight. Yet, the ground was far brighter than any moonlight.

In this place, there was a pile of science fiction posters. Every time me or Peter touched one of the posters, a strange mix of colors like a rainbow would extend out, V-shaped, from one of our hands. Every time we touched a poster, the poster would disapear and another rainbow would leave our hand. Finally we were near the bottom of the pile, and I was looking at a poster promoting the movie Battle Beyond the Stars I was gazing in to this poster when the first part of the dream ended.

I was dissapointed that I never found the ghost when I had this dream. It would take me years to find that ghost, but Peter starting guiding me to the ghost in this dream.

I almost woke up at this point, but then continued to have another dream...which I will describe in a future blog entry.

- Sam

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miércoles, julio 20, 2005

CSS tutorial part one

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This blog entry is the first in a series of CSS tutorials that I will present here on myspace. The purpose of these tutorials is to show people how to customize their page with CSS; I will ultimately explain how someone can set up CSS to have their page look like my page here on myspace.

This first tutorial is very simple. All it will do is change the color on the sides of your myspace page. The purpose of this tutorial is to make users comfortable adding CSS to their page and seeing how it affects the page.

The CSS we want to add looks like this:

<style type="text/css">
body {
background: black;
}
</style>

Where do we put this CSS? You can put it about anywhere on your myspace page. The place I put this CSS is at the bottom of my about me. [1] It can also be placed at the top of the about me, which is what I will do in this tutorial.

Let us suppose you have an about me that looks like this:

-------------------------------------------
Hello, I love being here on myspace and all my friends here! Here is my computer and my dog.

Thank you all of my friends for messaging me and leaving me comments.

Keep in touch!
-------------------------------------------

This should be edited (If you can find it, it's in Home -> Edit my profile -> About Me--hit the "edit" below "About me") to look like this:

-------------------------------------------
<style type="text/css">
body {
background: black;
}
</style>
Hello, I love being here on myspace and all my friends here! Here is my computer and my dog.

Thank you all of my friends for messaging me and leaving me comments.

Keep in touch!
-------------------------------------------

Once this CSS is added, your page will look different; you will notice that the sides on each end of your page are now black instead of gray; this is because the only part of a myspace page that is the background are the very sides (We will discuss how to make the background visible on more of your myspace page in future tutorials).

Once you are able to put this basic CSS in your page, putting in more complicated CSS is simply a matter of adding more commands to your CSS style.

- Sam

[1] People who save myspace pages in Firefox and look at the Firefox-saved source may be a bit confused, since Firefox moves all CSS up in to the headers when saving an entire web page.

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martes, julio 19, 2005

My web design philosophy

First of all, for people who don't have any HTML of CSS experience, I will post a newbie's guide in my next blog entry. In the meantime, I'll explain how I design web pages.

My web design philosophy can be summed up as follows: Simple, attractive, and usable on as many browsers as possible.

In particular, while I don't try to make my web sites as attractive on Netscape 4 as they are on modern CSS browsers, I make sure the sites do not break either. As part of my "graceful degeneration" philosophy, I do not use my CSS to change the layout or to hide Myspace's content to replace with my own. My profile may look a little different in Dillo than it does in Firefox, but everything is in the same place and the user interface is the same. Contrast this with users like HTML Tutorial--you can see how they pull off their magic by looking at their web page in Dillo.

The first step in my web design is to make sure the web page looks nice in Mozilla Firefox. This web browser is completely free and has excellent CSS support. Once I have the page looking nice in Firefox, I then test the web page in Internet Explorer 5. I then work around the inevitable bugs that IE's broken CSS has.

Once this is done, I test the web site on some other Linux browsers, such as Konqueror and Dillo. Nicely enough, the page looks great on Konqueror, and degraded very gracefully to a non-CSS form in Dillo. My next stage of web testing is on older releases of Netscape, in particular Netscape 3 and 4. There may still be a number of places, such as low-budget schools and libraries, that still use these older versions of Netscape.

Just as I feared yesterday, my web page here was completely broken in Netscape Navigator 4. Going through the CSS and removing line by line until it looked decent, I discovered that transparent backgrounds are broken. Since these are needed for the CSS design, I hid them from NN4 by using the Ciao Hack. Of course, the HTML on this page is complicated enough that NN4 takes a long time rendering it, and will as often as not crash or fail to render, depending on what ad is at the top of the page. I can't fix Tom's HTML; I can only fix my HTML.

Netscape 3 looked OK, except that the CSS was visible. Myspace doesn't allow the use of <-- comments to hide it; I ended up placing it at the end (instead of the beginning) of my "About me", and using a small white font to hide it.

I also changed the background and color scheme. This caused my picture to stand out a bit too much, so I changed my primary picture. The colors in my photo still didn't quite match the rest of the page, so I put a box around my photo to minimize the color shift.

A template version of my CSS now looks like this:

<font size=0 color=white>
<style type="text/css">
/* Anything between slash-star and star-slash is a comment and is ignored by computers; we use these to add human-readable information explaining the computer-readable code */

/* The background of my page here */
body {color:rgb(0,0,0);
background:rgb(255,255,192) url(http://x.myspace.com/images/blog/blogLogo.gif); /* Change these two values in parenthesis to the color for the background of the page before the background image loads, and the location on the web of your background image. This URL is optional if a solid background is desired. You probably don't actually want to use this example image; use something more tasteful */
}

/* The color for all text except links */
font, td, a, body, input, textarea, body, td, li, p, div, textarea, li, p, br, .text, .nametext, .blacktext10, .orangetext15, .lightbluetext8, .blacktext12, .btext, .whitetext12, .redtext{color: rgb(0,0,0);} /* Change this to the desired color for all text except links; keep in mind that this should be black (0,0,0) or white (255,255,255) in most cases */

/* The color for both unvisited and visited links */
a:link, a.navbar:link, a.redlink:link, a.searchlinksmall:link,
a.man, a:hover, a:active, a.navbar:active, a.redlink:active, a.searchlinksmall:active, a:visited {color: rgb(96,96,64);} /* Change this to the color all links will have in (red,green,blue) format; 0 indicates zero light intensity for the color in question; 255 indicates 100% light intensity for the color in question */

/* This just disables a lot of myspace's HTML junk. Since this bit of CSS breaks NN4, we hide it from NN4 with the Ciao Hack */
/*/*/a{}
table, tr, td {border: 0px;
background-color:transparent;
padding:2px;
}
/* */
/* The reason for the a{} is to work around Opera 5's handling of the Ciao Hack; the reason for the padding in this selector is to work around an IE bug */

/* All of the tables with your data in them are nested three deep, so this
will change how your tables look */
table table table{
border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0); /* This puts a black line around all of your boxes */
padding: 2px;
background: rgb(255,255,192); /* This is the color of the background of your boxes; make sure this color is nice and constrasts against the text color. Do *not* put an image here unless you want people to think your page is dorky */
color: rgb(0,0,0);
}

/* Since there are further sub-tables in those tables, disable the border in those sub tables */
table table table table{
border: 0px;}

/* We put a box around the profile image, to minimize color clashes */
table table table table a img{
border: 2px solid rgb(0,0,0);
}

/* We don't want boxes around all of the Contact controls */
table.contactTable a img {
border:0px;
}
</style>
</font>

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Fecha de publicación: 13 January, 1998

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lunes, julio 18, 2005

Some notes on CSS design for this web page

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Took me a couple of hours, but I figured out how to work around myspace's CSS quirks to put up some CSS here.

First of all, myspace removes hashes from any and all CSS code here. So, if you're copying over CSS from your webpage to put in your profile here, and do standard colors (color: #000000; and what not), the CSS will not work until the hashes are removed. The color: rgb(0,0,0); format, however, will work here.

Second of all CSS can be pretty much anywhere in a web page. I put my CSS at the top of "About me". It would be nice to be able to use the import(file.css) hack, but, you know, the number of Netscape 4 users is zero for all intents and purposes these days

(There used to be a CSS example here but Myspace's blog editor ate it and I have no way of getting it back.  Note to self: Do not attempt to edit my CSS example blogs; the Myspace editor will eat the examples)

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domingo, julio 17, 2005

I don't know

Emoticón actual:Spiritual

This week, I just found out that two of my good friends almost died. Additionally, a friend of a friend who almost died did, in fact, die. To quote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Bonding", "How well did I know this person who just died"...not at all, sadly.

I was talking to my buddy (who almost died and was in grief over his friend who died) about this, and the conversation became a little spiritual.

"You know, I just don't know why it is God decides to take some people home and leave some people here."
"I don't either."
"But, you know, I'm really glad you're still here and my other friend is also still here."
"Yeah..."

Yeah...I once got trained to be a grief minister for a hospital. During the training, I learned the official answer for why it is suffering and death happens..."I don't know". :-)

So, yeah, I don't know.

I'm right now listening to the extended mix of the very beautiful 1999 release "Touched by God" by Katcha, which isn't in Myspace's music database.

- Sam

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viernes, julio 15, 2005

My dream

Emoticón actual:  somnoliento/a

I had a dream that I was climbing Mt. Woodson with my mother and her husband, and was thinking about some of the myspace friends I have. In the dream, I was listening to Thompson Twins' album "Into The Gap"; in particular, I was listening to "Hold Me Now" and "Doctor, Doctor".

Time to go to school. - Sam

(edited to update album cover to domestic release; while the blog says this was released in 1991, it was really released in late 1983/early 1984)

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Fecha de publicación: 01 July, 1991

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jueves, julio 14, 2005

My dream from last night

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Last night (OK, this morning) I had a dream that I was a child again.  In the dream I was in a huge multiplex movie cinema with my family.  After we bought the tickets, I got lost in the movie theater and was walking through long, well lit halls looking for which theater was showing the movie we were supposed to watch.  By the time I found the movie, it had already been running for ten minutes and I was struggling to follow the plot of the movie.

At this point the dream changed and I was ina town which I lived in when I was a child.  There was a building with a psychologist that I was supposed to go to.  Then I was at the public pool in town, and there was a feast with a lot of food, all of which had meat in it.  Since I am a vegetarian, I couldn't eat any of the food, but put the food on my plate so I wouldn't come off as being rude.  I finally got a hot dog and just took the hot dog out of the bun.

There were some Mormons at this gathering, preaching their religion.  No one wanted to have the Mormons there, but I recognized the elders (what the Mormons call their young missionaries) and said "Hi, Elders" to them.  I also saw the bishop there; all of the Mormons were dressed up in three-piece suits while everyone else was in casual or swimming clothes.  While a lot of people were intolerant of the Mormons, I didn't mind them being there since I didn't have the intolerance a lot of the people had.  I explained to the Mormon bishop that I once investigated their church, but decided not to join it.

Then I was with my mother and we were supposed to get something to eat.  I wanted something healthy, but she wanted to get junk food or take me to Burger King.

And so the dream ended.  It felt like a very powerful and profound dream as I was waking up...

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