Hypsometry. Modal Synthesis.

To clear some things up, and to stave off future confusion:

• I’m Chris Boone.
• This site is the blog of Hypsometry, which is my design studio. Hypsometry does web design consulting of many varieties. However, I haven’t been accepting new projects here in almost two years.
• My main job for the past year and a half has been as the Design Director for Infoteria Corporation USA. (Please excuse that site: It pre-dated my tenure, has never been really been used for anything, and has thus languished.) We’re an independent offshoot of Infoteria Corporation, in Japan.
• Our main product here at Infoteria is Lingr. Since Lingr launched, at the end of August 2006, we’ve often confused the distinction between Lingr and Infoteria, since there hasn’t been any need to do otherwise.
• As such, our company blog is at blog.lingr.com.
• This is all about to chance. We’re now hard at work on our second major project – about which I can tell you nothing yet. In other words, this will be Infoteria USA’s second project.
• When that launches, we will have to clear up the Lingr / Infoteria conflation. This is a first step towards that.

Make any sense?

As you might have noticed – if you’re as sensitive as Danny, at least – I’ve updated the theme here. This one hurts my eyes a little less than the last, but is turning out to be much more problematic. Eh. Damn machines.

In particular, I’m a little worried about the feeds. Feed problems can happen so subtly and can be so hard to track down…

Anyway, please do let me know if you notice any problems, large or small, with the feeds or with anything else.

Okay. In case it’s not obvious, things are rocky around here, and will continue to be for some time. So consider this an acknowledgment of the problems, a promise that I’m working on them, and a request for your patience and your assistance.

Your assistance: Let me know what oddities crop up. Comment on ‘em here, email me, yell real loud — whatever.

I was (rather pleasantly) surprised to find that people are still subscribed to the feed. I guess my laziness finds a good match in yours.

Anyway, I’m now using FeedBurner for my feeds, so the new feed is at http://feeds.hypsometry.com/hypsometry/blog/articles. There’s no longer any distinction between the news feed and the blog feed. However, there is also, thanks to the cleverness of SimpleLog, a feed for comments: http://feeds.hypsometry.com/hypsometry/blog/comments.

There is also, FeedBurner tells me, a way that you can subscribe to these feeds via email, but it’s not obvious to me how you’d actually access that feature. So.

The old feeds should transparently redirect to the new feeds, so if you’re already subscribed, you should be good to go. Please let me know if that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Thanks.

Part 2.

Well, I sure fouled that up. I’ve updated the feed addresses above to the correct ones, and added the appropriate redirect so that FeedBurner is able to actually get the damn feed, so… Hopefully now we should be good to go. We’ll see.

Also, I forgot to mention that this move to a new system completely borked all old Hypsometry links. Which is super lame, I know. I’ll try to work something out later, but in the meantime: Sorry.

Well, I’m back off it. Or on it, depending on whether you think blogging or not blogging is the vice.

So here we are again.

Yes, this is a pre-packaged theme. It hurts me more than you, I’m sure. Garrett Murray is fantastic, and SimpleLog is fantastic, but… this theme leaves a little to be desired.

So I’ll desire it, and you can desire it too, and then perhaps one day our desires will be fulfilled.

In the meantime, let’s get started.