! Orange [Was: Orange]

2003-07-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Leon Brocard wrote: Hello. They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at OSCON. I hear that it is not going to be cheap. If you want to help me make it orange and would like to pledge a small amount that'd be wonderful. Emails offlist please. Leon Well, nothing per

Re: ! Orange [Was: Orange]

2003-07-14 Thread Graham Barr
On Thursday, Jul 10, 2003, at 13:35 US/Pacific, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Leon Brocard wrote: Hello. They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at OSCON. I hear that it is not going to be cheap. If you want to help me make it orange and would like to pledge a small

Orange

2003-07-10 Thread Leon Brocard
Hello. They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at OSCON. I hear that it is not going to be cheap. If you want to help me make it orange and would like to pledge a small amount that'd be wonderful. Emails offlist please. Leon -- Leon Br

Orange

2003-07-12 Thread Dave Cross
There seems to be an idea going round (see, for example, http://search.cpan.org/orange.html) that it the whole of london.pm is obscessed with the colour orange - rather than just one rogue member. Had the auction been held at a reasonable time, I'm sure you would have seen far more lond

Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Leo Lapworth
yfish and my self spent 450 EUR to change the colour of the website to Orange, with all money going to YAPC::Europe (and then excess to YAS). I would like to take this chance to say sorry... :) Once again, I stress.. this is intentional.. it is not a bug... Thanks Leo

Re: Orange

2003-07-11 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at > OSCON The auction was mad and crazy. There were two groups: the orange group and the "keep it as it is" group. We started bidding at $100. Increments

Re: Orange

2003-07-11 Thread S Watkins
Leon Brocard wrote: The auction was mad and crazy. There were two groups: the orange group and the "keep it as it is" group. We started bidding at $100. Increments of $25. Up up up, higher higher higher. It got hectic, we got more money. Eventually, I made a bid of $1000. They made a bi

Re: Orange

2003-07-12 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: > However, in a gesture of good faith, Graham decided to let > search.cpan.org be orange for one month. Thanks Graham! It burns! It burns! I haven't seen anything that ugly since slashdot released their games themed subsection[1]. I'l

Re: Orange

2003-07-12 Thread Andy Wardley
S Watkins wrote: > Some people just don't seem to have got the message that the DotCom Era > is OVER! *grin* It was a stupidly fun way of raising cash for The Perl Foundation. :-) For this purpose, I copied and hacked on the search.cpan.org CSS stylesheet and then paraded the orang

Re: Orange

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Purkis
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 02:00 pm, Dave Cross wrote: There seems to be an idea going round (see, for example, http://search.cpan.org/orange.html) that it the whole of london.pm is obscessed with the colour orange - rather than just one rogue member. Had the auction been held at a

Re: Orange

2003-07-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:32 AM +0100 7/12/03, Mark Fowler wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: However, in a gesture of good faith, Graham decided to let search.cpan.org be orange for one month. Thanks Graham! It burns! It burns! I haven't seen anything that ugly since slashdot released their

Re: Orange

2003-07-12 Thread Lusercop
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:32:10AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > [1] http://games.slashdot.org/ - remember your peril sensitive sunglasses Can I just have bad-web-"design"-sensitive sunglasses. :-/ Oh, and I think that orange sucks on search.cpan.org too. -- Lusercop.net - L

Re: Orange

2003-07-13 Thread Tim Sweetman
Lusercop wrote: Can I just have bad-web-"design"-sensitive sunglasses. :-/ Lusercop, you're sounding like Jakob Nielsen (who you claim is full of organic fertilizer) again: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/2723.html # "the death of web design" ti'

Re: Orange

2003-07-13 Thread Mark Fowler
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Graham has said that he'd cut a day off the orange month for each > $100 donated to TPF... Yowza, that's a bit rich for my blood. I'll think I'll just change my browser to use a custom style sheet (anyone know how to do

Re: Orange

2003-07-13 Thread Mark Fowler
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > On a similar note, I assume that Leon only won control of our web site > for one year. I look forward to it returning to more pleasant colour in > September :) Like all things, after a year it's left open to whoever's in charge of that after the time expir

Re: Orange

2003-07-13 Thread Leo Lapworth
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > > > On a similar note, I assume that Leon only won control of our web site > > for one year. > > As I stated when I took over leadership, I'm not going to fiddle with > minor things, so it's up

Re: Orange

2003-07-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 2:56 pm +0100 Leo Lapworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, what with it being YAPC::EU in a couple of weeks, and Mr Greggy will be running the auction I personally feel that it should be reauctioned - I'm quite happy to impliment more than just a colour change - Hmm.. lit

Re: Orange

2003-07-13 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
t them to change it back *right* *now*. *> *>Graham has said that he'd cut a day off the orange month for each *>$100 donated to TPF... Bah, give me 200 quid in cash over the weekend:) It is unspeakably ugly. Maybe that guy who does web interface usability studies can use it as an examp

Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > On a similar note, I assume that Leon only won control of our web site > > > for one year. > > > > As I stated when I took over leadership,

Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Jos I. Boumans
On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 08:36 Europe/Amsterdam, Greg McCarroll wrote: you could have a nice sheep background image, tastefully faded of course, or a nice buffy background image. or perhaps stars and stripes, draig goch or tricolore as the background. of course someone could organise a bid to

Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: > Hello. > > They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at > OSCON. I hear that it is not going to be cheap. If you want to help me > make it orange and would like to pledge a small amount that'd be > wo

Re: Orange

2003-07-15 Thread will
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 15:32, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sunday, July 13, 2003 2:56 pm +0100 Leo Lapworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, what with it being YAPC::EU in a couple of weeks, and Mr Greggy > > will be running the auction I personally feel that it should be > > reauctioned - I'm

Re: Orange

2003-07-15 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:22:54PM +0100, will wrote: > http://www.dazedsheep.co.uk/ Redirects to http://www.dazedsheep.co.uk/james/, which gives a Directory Listing Denied error. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896e

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:22:35PM +0100, Leo Lapworth said: > I'm sorry (or happy) to announce the London.pm website > (http://london.pm.org/) has now changed colour. OH GOD! MY EYES! IT BUURNS!

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm sorry (or happy) to announce the London.pm website > (http://london.pm.org/) has now changed colour. > > WE HAVE NOT BEEN HACKED! > > For those of you who did not hear... > > The colour of the website was put up for auction at > this years YAPC::

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:22:35PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > I'm sorry (or happy) to announce the London.pm website > (http://london.pm.org/) has now changed colour. > WE HAVE NOT BEEN HACKED! This makes a change! :-) *ducks and runs very fast* -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere si

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Rob Thompson
>From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Orange website... >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:57:35 +0100 > >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:22:35PM +0100, Leo Lapworth said: > > I'm sorry (or happy) to announce the London.pm website > > (http://london.pm.o

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Paul Mison
On 24/09/2002 at 17:57 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:22:35PM +0100, Leo Lapworth said: >> I'm sorry (or happy) to announce the London.pm website >> (http://london.pm.org/) has now changed colour. > >OH GOD! MY EYES! IT BUURNS! http://london.pm.org/about/fa

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread alex
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 21:48, Lusercop wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:22:35PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > I'm sorry (or happy) to announce the London.pm website > > (http://london.pm.org/) has now changed colour. > > WE HAVE NOT BEEN HACKED! > > This makes a change! :-) robin's the only o

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Paul Mison wrote: > I've taken the opportunity to change the style sheet, too, which should > fix a couple of things people have (rightly) complained about > accessibility-wise. It's wrong all down the LHS in Moz 1.0. I presume Moz is supported? S. -- Shevek I am the Borg

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
om a little more into the brown zone I'm sure you could probably get Terry's (of Chocolate Orange fame) to sponsor you :-) Paul PS The link and vlink colours are still way too close, IMO. I dunno if it's a Mac gamma thing or someone's got bionic

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-24 Thread Leon Brocard
Shevek sent the following bits through the ether: > It's wrong all down the LHS in Moz 1.0. I presume Moz is supported? There's a weird mozilla bug where it won't refresh the background images of some cells. See if clearing your browser cache helps. Leon -- Leon Brocard

Re: Orange website...

2002-09-25 Thread Paul Mison
On 25/09/2002 at 02:24 +0100, Shevek wrote: >On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Paul Mison wrote: > >> I've taken the opportunity to change the style sheet, too, which should >> fix a couple of things people have (rightly) complained about >> accessibility-wise. > >It's wrong all down the LHS in Moz 1.0. I pres

Orange uber alles

2009-09-09 Thread the hatter
http://secretgeek.net/OrangeX.asp I'm suspecting some people must have seen this before, but it was new to me. the hatter

Re: Orange uber alles

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:16 PM, the hatter wrote: > http://secretgeek.net/OrangeX.asp > > I'm suspecting some people must have seen this before, but it was new to me. Refreshing (haha) to see - a pet peeve of mine is OS X apps with some aqua-dominant coloring in their icons. Makes it harder to dis

Orange uber alles again

2009-09-14 Thread Ian Knopke
It seems that orange is not just the key to internet success, but also applies to the music business. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/14/flame-haired-flavour-of-month

Re: Orange uber alles again

2009-09-14 Thread Dermot
2009/9/14 Ian Knopke : > It seems that orange is not just the key to internet success, but also > applies to the music business. > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/14/flame-haired-flavour-of-month I guess it depends on your line of business. If your 'in the