http://reidbeels.com/posts Reid Beels is a communication design student at PNCA in Portland, Oregon. He enjoys designing for print and the web, writing php code, and taking far too many photographs. Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:39:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For my undergraduate design thesis at PNCA I'm working on explaining particle acceleration through design and interactivity. Using the International Linear Collider as a model, I created diagrams for each step in a collision experiment. They're intended to help define a visual language for the project and will soon be ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/10/accelerator-diagrams/ I've just launched the new version of this site and it comes with many exciting changes, both in design and under the hood. The front page now acts as more of a portal, aggregating content from the blog, portfolio, flickr and twitter. The portfolio has been completely rebuilt using Django ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/10/welcome-to-30/ I've been using Plazes for a while now to track my location as I wander around with my laptop. The concept is really cool. They have a desktop client that figures out your location based on a database of network ids and such. If it doesn't know about the place ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/05/the-new-plazes-makes-me-sad/ This post is only on the new server. If you see it, the DNS is being friendly. http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/05/transfer-complete/ The fifteen branches of the Jackson County Library System closed today due to a lack of funding. I've spent countless hours both in the Ashland library and using its vast resources. I've known librarians for years who are now without jobs. This closure troubles me greatly. I ranted a bit over ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/04/on-libraries/ The AC adapter on my Powerbook started shorting out last week but I could usually fiddle with it and get it to work. Yesterday, in the middle of such fiddling, there was a little spark and it started to burn through the casing (and my finger). Having nothing much ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/03/frankenpower/ You've got 15 seconds to take a screenshot and resize it for use in a post, a Mac with a clean OS install, and a paper clip. You double click the file on the desktop and up pops your image in Preview. That's no good, Preview can't resize ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/03/macgyver-image-resizing/ I've been using sIFR for a while to get pretty typography for my headers on this site. As part of my latest design refresh, I upgraded to the beta of sIFR 3 and discovered something cool in the process. It's possible to embed an image within the flash movie ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/02/text-masks-with-sifr3/ I installed WordPress 2.1 today, eager to make use of some of the new plugin features only to find that there isn't really any documentation on them. I'd like to echo the sentiment mentioned here and say that WordPress really does need stronger developer documentation. I want to be able ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/02/wordpress-21-needs-more-developer-documentation/ More photos Driving past the streetcar yards the other day, I spotted a brand new train being loaded on to the tracks. It's bright green and had a more rounded, bubblelike, nose than the current model. Presumably this is one of the trains that they built the new siding for ... http://reidbeels.com/posts/2007/01/theres-a-new-streetcar-in-town/