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24 February 2005 by nathaniel

some tasty treats

OK. I have a lot of work to do. So I am naturally surfing. Admittedly, I could also blog about the great shows currently up at the Goodman Gallery and Warren Siebrits, but I thought, well, I’ll get to those eventually. Probably this weekend. Instead, I’m gonna blog about blogs. Here are a couple of tasty ones I have added to my blogroll, courtesy of the SA blog awards (scroll to the bottom to vote – for me).

Here we go…

Maybe more to come. We’ll see how much reading time I have….

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22 February 2005 by nathaniel

south african blog awards

Vote for me here

OK, so, admittedly, I didn’t even know these existed; I also find it ironic that today, of all days, I decided to post stuff about American politics. However, it seems that I, or rather this blog, have been nominated in two of 13 categories for the south african blog awards!

How cool is that? Somebody had to nominate me, and all, and I made it to the top ten w/o even knowing it!

they like me, they really like me

I’m in the Best SA lifestyle blog category, and the Best design for a blog category. (And note that now, you can download this great design for your own blog. Get the NAN theme for WordPress here)

And if it wasn’t for gabbahead, and his comment on my page (and my follow through his links), I wouldn’t even know! Thanks, man.

Anyway, there are a bunch of really cool blogs listed, and some I hadn’t even known about (I have a lot of reading to do over the next few days) – rock on with SA blog culture! Do some of you guys want to be my friend? I’m a lot cooler than I, um, I’m a lot cooler than, um, no I’m not… but still.

If you are reading this, take 5 mins:

Vote for me here

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20 February 2005 by nathaniel

wordpress theme for wordpress 1.5: NAN

NAN 1.5 is completely compatible with wordpress 2.0! the new version (NAN 2.0, dec 24, 2005) merely includes a thumbnail image for the new presentation area in wordpress

Note that I have discontinued the yellow version of the NAN theme, as it was not very popular; in fact, although it was the original color, even I stopped using it ;)

lots of bug fixes on latest version, updated 6 april 2005!

Well it’s the 2nd birthday for the nathaniel and the non-aggressive blog, and I thought I’d give a little gift to my dedicated readers (if I have any of those).

The new, improved and free NAN theme! New! also check out my latest theme: stuttering

That’s right! Now you, too can make a blog that looks just like (er, something like) this. It’s download-able, with easy instructions on how to insert your own image or menu up top (instead of my own flash menu), and in two colors: the original yellow (as displayed here), and white. It looks good on all browsers (i know of), and all you need is WordPress 1.5 installed, and access to your server.

The white looks just like this blog, but if you want images, try something like this:
NAN theme for wrodpress 2.0
click for larger image

Of course, you could go in and change colors yourself, and adapt the stylesheet as you see fit, but I wanted to make this REALLY easy for non-coders, too. All these folks really need to do is make an image to overwrite the default banner (up top – put the name of your blog in it), then plop the whole NAN folder into your own themes folder (located in wp-content), and turn it on.

Advanced coders: the top graphic is an include, so if you want a menu like mine, all you have to do is open up one php file and paste in a working menu, as you see fit!

Instructions are included in the download (~30kb each). Be sure your ftp application is set to “text” or “ascii” or “automatic” when you upload! Otherwise, it gets all weird looking in the admin panel….

NAN zip file

Enjoy, and happy birthday NAN!

(PS – please leave comments and/or contact me with bugs, queries or suggestions!)
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10 February 2005 by nathaniel

various tech art stuff

Rhizome’s net.art commissions are now open!
ISEA 2006 Residency Project is also looking for proposals. It looks like it’s gonna be a HOT festival next year!
memefest is also open for submissions – tho it’s mostly for students (get excited, students)
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga has started a blog
CollColl (Mark Daggett’s) balance bar is not too dissimilar to getawayexperiment.net in its concept. Where we have chosen specific sites, balance bar let’s you change any one. Where ours is a public collage, balance bar is more of a private annotation. So far it’s only for IE on XP, but I look forward to trying it out, when it’s cross-graded to Mac – maybe in version 2.0 we’ll be able to share files and collaborate across machines?

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