Romey's Ramblings

Did Twitter change their CSS fonts?

June 15, 2007August 23, 2017Jeromey Balderrama

I’m a Twitter addict, and spend far too much time on the the site. I end up loading it one way or another, through some kind of 3rd party app or Firefox Extension (Twitbin is my favorite), but I pretty much go directly to their site most of the time.

It was to my misfortune when I logged in from my desktop machine and saw the grossest Twitter delivery ever! I wished I would have taken a screen shot before I fixed the problem, but just trust me – it looked bad.

What was weird is that on my laptop things looked fine. After some troubleshooting I realized that Twitter’s CSS is asking for the fonts it lists them in the following priority:

 font: 0.75em/1.5 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

Yep, Helvetica – that font that looks beautiful on Macs but when misused looks like crap on PC’s. Sure enough, it looked horrible. I ended up comparing the configurations and noticed I had Helvetica (or a PC version of it) installed on my machine. After unloading the font Twitter looked normal once again.

I’m not sure if this font priority was a recent change, as I don’t bring up Twitter on my Desktop all too often, but I wanted to float this out there just in case anyone else’s Twitter looked like crap.

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How to fix 24

June 7, 2007August 23, 2017Jeromey Balderrama

In regards to my recent entry on the problems with the 24’s sixth season, I stumbled across a great article that better articulates what the makers of 24 need to do to fix the show. I thought this guy was dead on, also includes a lot of great classic 24 videos – check it out!

“More Than Fine“

Greenfoot got shot – new video

June 5, 2007August 23, 2017Jeromey Balderrama

I was goofing around last night when I stumbled across a video that was made of my band Greenfoot. A few months back we played at Andolini’s and all of the shows are taped for a possible TV airing and MySpace posting, but I had no idea that we were picked. Pretty exciting!

Check it out!

Greenfoot – “Entangled”

Love Star Wars & Family Guy? You’ll love this

June 2, 2007August 23, 2017Jeromey Balderrama

I’m was working on some Greenfoot promotional stuff when I came across one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a long time. The quality is decent for someone taping this, but the video is just classic!

Alright, bedtime – big day of drumming Saturday.

Shrek 4 and Shrek 5 Announced – that’s 3 too many

May 31, 2007August 23, 2017Jeromey Balderrama

I ran across the following story on Digg this afternoon:

Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced that there will be a Shrek 4 (2010) and Shrek 5.
read more | digg story

My first thought came to mind, “Crap”. Last weekend I went to go see Shrek 3 and while I did enjoy it, it did end up feeling like a big cash grab, and that they were scraping the bottom of the barrels as far as characters and storyline goes. The first Shrek movie was a classic, and the second was a great, funny follow-up – but I didn’t laugh that much the third time around.

Some of the commenters on Digg brought up the point that it’s probably easier for the animation studios to keep pumping money into sequels, as they don’t need to develop new computer models for new characters. At the same time, that’s the necessary cost of being innovative. Dreamworks has a great animation studio, but this would really be a big black eye for them.

I feel bad for kids today and think about when I have my kids. There just don’t seem to be any of the great, classic kids’ movies anymore. I know there isn’t an abundant amount of fairy tales and we have probably exhausted a lot of the classic Western stories, but there is a world full of culture that could provide new fairy tales and great stories to tell.