Expanding the 960 Grid using Cryastalline

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We recently started standardizing on the 960 grid system. So far we have showcased the Free GPL Quasar template and recently the commercial templates called Reaction and Dominion from Rocket Theme.

We now are showcasing Cryastalline. Using the latest Gantry 2.5 software from the Rocket Theme collection. For this theme we left it pretty much right out of the box with only minior variations of color. All ready running the Gantry framework made setup a breeze.

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A couple weeks ago my wife and I finally went to see Avatar. I had been holding out for the DVD version because I already knew from the reviews and many trailers the basic story. And I am not a big fan of any movie that depicts mans goal to obliterate another species or ravage a culture just because they have natural resources that our money hungry nature must exploit.

But everyone said I had to see this movie on the big screen to really see Pandora in its spender.  So my wife and I decided to have a dinner and movie. Of course by now Avatar was relegated to one of the smaller theaters but still bigger then our 42” HDTV. We put on the 3D glasses and sat back for a thrill. As this was my first 3D movie I was skeptical but soon I was buried in the movie.

Yes I will say it was a good flick and worth watching at least one time in a theater with the whole 3D thing, but I don’t plan on making it a habit. Personally I did not like having to wear the glasses because it meant that I could not wear my own prescription pair. Having  a short depth of field on the screen meant I had to wear them or everything was really fuzzy and that did not appeal to me at all! The other thing was I did not see the blue creatures that are portrayed in all the still photo’s.

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Much of what I do is centered around my passion for art and I am not talking about traditional. Art comes in all flavor’s and surrounds us in so many ways we tend to not notice the obvious.

I recently upgraded my cell phone. Actually I swapped back from Nextel to Sprint even though they are through the same company. Anyway one of the big issues with cell phones is centered around reception. Unless you live within 3 miles of the nearest cell tower you are lucky to be able to receive calls inside your home or office. And if you work in a high rise your chances of good reception diminish in direct proportion to the amount of steel that is buried within the structure of the building.

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The topic of death is something that I rarely think about. Life can be so full and rewarding but like all things there is a start and a end. So when I read the article in the Los Angeles Times titled “Funerary urns as modern art” I had to take a step back and contemplate my mortality.

What went through my head was my father. He died fairly young at the age of 63. Strong as an Ox and rarely sick he was my mother's care giver to the end of his life. When my mom had her aneurysm in her late forties everyone in the family was prepared for the worst. We did not think about funerals we thought about losing our mother. You see my father and mother were true soul mates. They did everything together!

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We continues our series on the 960 Grid system. Quietly today we have upgraded Xanluna! to yet another new theme that was introduced in December 2009. This theme is called “Reaction” and it was the first commercial 960 grid based theme from Rocket Theme. To date there have been 3 released and we chose “Reaction” because of its ability to be very minimal in design. This theme similar to the new Free GPL based theme we started with and is clean and void of distractions.

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Albert Einstein

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science.

He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feels amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present!

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