Ryan’s Journey

I logged into Gmail for the first time since about noon Wednesday, I saw that there was something new. THEMES! I am not sure how I feel about them really, I know that there are a few things I would like to see happen prior to these. However, most people like to make things pretty before they are fully functional yet. I know my sister is certainly that way, she is constantly changing her MySpace display picture.

Anyway, I looked at a handful of the themes, and I was undecided. The ones I looked at pretty much got a thumbs down. The one that would bring out the inner geek, Terminal, was disappointing. I could not tell which e-mails were new versus which were read due to the very slight change in greens. The others had similar issues, not enough contrast. This especially came out with the links into e-mails. The color was just too light, I cannot tell if it just was that it matched the background too closely or what. I have it on cold shower right now, but I will see howthe planets theme looks later today when it will be lighter. Planets is the theme of my personal Google page, so hopefully the theme will look decent around 10/11 am.

By the way, hello. I was on a long hiatus from blogging, I don’t have any real excuse why I didn’t this summer, I have been quite busy with school since the end of September. I have been working on a post about the election, hopefully I can get that done in the next few days.

[edit]: While I was little bummed to see that the planets theme did not change, it gets a thumbs down. Google or whoever made the theme, did not apply a new color to the active arrow. So a black arrow on a black (or dark navy) background, doesn’t work too well.

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