Break
Posted on | October 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Dear readers. As you might have noticed, I’ve taken a break from the daily blogging. I’m working on a secret project (a personal one, not Destroyer related) that demands my full attention til it’s finished. Which is also why you shouldn’t expect a new issue of Destroyer anytime soon. Bear with me. And thanks for recent comments about site design. I will implement things over time. But as for now: Focus, Karl!
Interview with Rinrin of Imgsrc.ru
Posted on | October 13, 2008 | 8 Comments
The Russian photo sharing site Imgsrc.ru is up and running again (thanks for letting us know, Josh!) after having been shut down on September 29th 2008.
To celebrate, I publish an interview with Rinrin, whose online art collection has grown considerably since we met in 2006. The article was originally published in Destroyer 03, which you can buy here.
Enjoy! (Click on the images to view them big enough to read the text.)
Freedom not Fear
Posted on | October 12, 2008 | 7 Comments
Like Josh at Milkboys and maybe 100,000 other people, I protested against extended surveillance of Internet and phone data today. More about the demonstration here.
Liberal social critic Oscar Swartz was there.
First redesign - what do you think?
Posted on | October 11, 2008 | 13 Comments
For the first time since the launch in February, I’ve redesigned the Destroyer blog. (The above picture is what it looked like before.) I started developing an old theme at 14:23 yesterday, and well, now I’m done - with a freshly updated Wordpress 2.6.2 as well. 
A few things that I wanted to change:
- Since I’m so proud of my magazines, I wanted them to be visible already in the header. I think they look so good together.
- I wanted 2 sidebars.
- I wanted the texts about me and about ordering Destroyer to be more serious and more personal at the same time.
- I didn’t want the blog to look like Wordpress’ default theme.
There’s still much to do and some pages to write, but this will do for the time being. I mean, I did have a lot to do today, other stuff I mean, and then I just got stuck infront of the screen…
A note about images
The new theme didn’t resize images automatically, and I didn’t find any way through that. Previously, images have been bigger than they appear. Wordpress has automatically downsized their display to 450 pixels, but when you click on them, they are often 800 or 1200 pixels wide. Now I’ve had to resize all those big images, meaning you can’t view them bigger anymore even if you click on them. I would have to have done this sooner or later anyway since I keep exceeding my traffic limit after I wrote about Imgsrc.ru… There are plenty of homeless netizens out there as a result of the shutdown.
Anyway, this is it. Tell me what you think about the new design by voting or commenting. If you care at all, that is. 
Male friendship
Posted on | October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
Don’t miss Tchibo’s sweet campaign Männer-Freundschaft (Male friendship).
