Hi, my name is François Faubert.

My birthday has passed, temperatures are going down slowly and I’m back from a 2 weeks’ vacation period. Summer is coming to an end.

Soon, as Canadian weather goes to hell, I will get back to the workbench and play around my little projects — one of them being the new skin I’ve silently pushed on this blog.

In all honesty, I have not really tested it in older Explorer versions because all my main computers have all sinuously been converted to Macs. Because I’m using CSS shadows, rounded corners and transparency statements that aren’t supported in Internet Explorer 7 and down, I can bet many things look odd. Consider this a work in progress!

This skin was one of the first designs I’ve completed apart from the ones I do at work. Mostly because I can’t come up with something I find worthy of The Music Tank, but also because I’ve let myself being boxed in corporate guidelines, I’ve been banging my head consistently against a wall for a while now in website designs.

I like how this one turned out though and it had the thumbs up from friends, which is a big plus it has for itself.

Of the new features introduced with the skin is a page displaying my lifestream. I tried using wordpress plugins at first, but it didn’t quite do what I wanted so I ended up regrouping all my web feeds in Yahoo Pipes and then displaying what they generated with jQuery.

Stay tuned for updates on projects and new posts on the blog in the near future. I have a few drafts waiting for me to finish up and publish.

I’m out!