Josh Nichols

Hello!

I’m Josh Nichols, a.k.a. MrBlank. A designing, video game playing, comic drawing nerd from the middle of Missouri. Welcome to my personal site.

What’s going on here?

This site consists of several sections.

Blog

This is your standard blog with entries that are archived on this site, syndicated with XML and allow for comments. Some posts may have image galleries that use the nifty Slimbox.

Tumblelog

This pretty much just consists of odds and ends I find on the Web with my pithy commentary. It’s all run with Tumblr.com and fed into my homepage. Tumblr also pulls in feeds from other places you’ll find me, like Del.icio.us and Twitter.

More Josh

The latest entries from other blogs I write for, like Interface_ and Midmococo, are pulled via XML feeds. A modified Xbox 360 Gamer Card stand-alone script and Duncan Mackenzie’s API for Xbox Gamertag Data get the Xbox Live data. Muxtape is simply the XML feed of my latest mix tape.

In the future I hope to add more sections, such as a portfolio, illustration and comics.

Hey, isn’t this published with WordPress?

Nope. I love WordPress, I really do. It’s come a long way and I’ve had a lot of fun with it, but I want to do more than blog. After a long search, I’ve settled on the sexy, sophisticated Symphony. It’s streamlined and flexible and powered by XML and XSLT.

You suck. Your site doesn’t validate!

I’m all for Web standards and accessibility, but embedding Flash in a valid way is a royal pain in the ass. Therefore, if there’s Flash on the page, it ain’t gonna validate. Get over it. At least it all works in Internet Explorer 6.