Mosaic Fragments

GEASS HAS EATEN MY FLIST.

Okay, so it's just because code_geass is being super-active, unsurprisingly, but still. That'll teach me to check LJ when I have class 45 minutes and still have to drive to campus.

On an unrelated note, I am addicted to Rolo's image song. Which is weird because (1) I hate Rolo and (2) there was a Kyou Kara Maou image song that sounded similar (probably Wolfram's), and I hated it. If only he didn't whisper "Nii-san" in the middle -- that one part grates on me like you wouldn't believe.

Anyways, off to class. Maybe someday soon I will make a post that is not about Geass. :o

Have [mis?]applied my newly rediscovered CSS skillz (?) and redesigned my journal. AFAIK, the only things I forgot to finish are the archive pages, but if you notice anything that looks suspiciously default styled, let me know.

The layout features Ouran High School Host Club, the awesomest anime since Azumanga Daioh. Yay! And, to match, the default icon is now Kyouya, the hottest of the hosts, IMHO. o^_^o

I've also made a squee icon in honor of the Hitachiin twins, the next-hottest of the hosts. ^^ If you're unfamiliar with the series, you can think of them as Gred and Forge, but more [pretend?!] slashy. XD

( Cut to prevent it from hypnotizing me. )

Um... yeah. I kind of lost track of time while doing the CSS, so if I sound totally incoherent, you can chalk it up to sleep-deprivation.

In other LJ news, I have, for the time being, sold my soul to LJ Plus. There's nothing I'm particularly attached to about it, so if the ads bother you, please do speak up. (Really. You won't hurt my feelings, I promise.) But then again, who doesn't use Firefox with Adblock these days? But even then the unstripped bits look kind of ugly, so you're still allowed to complain.

Ahem. Yeah. In the meantime, I will enjoy my 15 userpics and revel in not having to agonizingly delete one of the ones I never use anyway in order to upload a new one.

I'll probably be tweaking the CSS here and there for a while. The whole design is kind of random. As with my Winamp skins, different parts tend to have different styles, and their meeting is not pretty. Somehow, the whole thing came out entirely unlike what I'd intended (which had a lot of boxes, for one). But hey, I got to use lots of the new CSS tricks I'd learned, like Leahy Image Replacement and . . . IE hacks. -_- I tested the design in Firefox 1.5, Opera 8, and IE 6, so hopefully it's at least readable for most of you.

But since most of you probably read me on your friends pages, I don't think any of this really affects you that much anyway.

...okay, I really should go to bed.

For more pretty CSS layout awesomeness, you should all check out the CSS Zen Garden. Every layout you see there is entirely implemented in CSS. The HTML never changes. I'd link to a few of my favorites, but there are too many to choose from. I don't know if such a page exists to inspire or demoralize me, but it certainly does a good job of it either way.

ETA: Okay, so I also forgot to style the "Add Comment" page. Meh.

And. I have no freakin' clue why Opera and Firefox insist on displaying a horizontal scrollbar. My previous recent attempt at CSS yielded the same result. I suspect it has something to do with putting things flush with the right side, but for the life of me I don't know how to fix it. Any insight would be muchly appreciated.

G'night!