How to Create a Theme in Windows SharePoint Services v2

I was going to make a post about making SharePoint 2003 themes, but while I was searching for resources I came across this guide by Heather Solomon, which is far more comprehensive than anything I would have written.

Thanks, Heather!

Butterscotch ice cream

I had butter and brown sugar lying around the house, so I decided to search for a Butterscotch Icecream recipe. The only problem was that the recipe was all in Imperial (and measured sugar in grams, which is a pain for me as I don't have an electric scale).

Consequently, I present you with the same recipe, but with different measurements.

Butterscotch ice cream

60g Butter
6 tbsp Brown sugar; dark, soft
1 cup full cream milk; warm
2 Eggs
5 tbsp Caster sugar
1/4 tsp Vanilla essence
Whipping cream (10oz./283.5 g, which I estimate at about 300mL)

1. Melt the brown sugar and butter together in a pan over a gentle heat. Increase the heat until the mixture bubbles for 1 minute only.
2. Allow to cool slightly.
3. Add the warm milk.
4. Stir continuously over a gentle heat until thoroughly blended.
5. Allow to cool.
6. Beat together the eggs and the caster sugar in a bowl.
7. Pour the mixture from the saucepan on to the beaten eggs/sugar, add the vanilla essence and stir.
8. Strain back into the pan.
9. Stir over a low heat until the mixture thickens slightly; take care not to let it boil.
10. Cool the mixture.
11. Whip the cream lightly and fold into the cooled mixture.
12. Pour into a freezer container and freeze until mushy. Beat with a whisk and return to the freezer until the ice cream is firm. Put in icecream maker.
(Website notes recipe is from Scottish Tea-Time Recipes by Johanna Mathie, ISBN 1 898435 18 9.)

This is good with shortbread bits added, or macadamias, or with chocolate fudge sauce.

I'm not sure about the cream quantity, so it might come out a little intense, depending on your tastes.

Icecream Base

• 1 cup full cream milk
• 1 cup cream
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 whole eggs

1. Whisk together eggs and sugar until well-combined and fluffy.
2. Heat the milk until not-quite boiling, then stir into the egg and sugar.
3. Stir the mixture over low heat until it thickens slightly (or coats the back of a spoon), custard style. I do this in a Pyrex bowl over a saucepan of boiling water.
4. Refrigerate until cold, then stir in the cream.
5. Place the mixture in your icecream maker and follow the manufacturer's instructions.

Depending on what you're adding to the mixture, add less milk and cream.

I like this recipe because it doesn't involve large amounts of egg. In my icecream maker, the end product is quite soft.

I often make this with whole 300mL cartons of milk and cream. The custard takes a little longer to thicken, but otherwise I haven't encountered any problems with it.

This recipe was inspired by the proportions at Think Quest, however I like to cook my eggs a little more than that recipe.

WoW Macros

These are mostly for my own benefit, in case I'm playing on my laptop and need my macros.

Get Ready
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Conjure Water; [modifier:alt] conjure food; [modifier:shift] conjure mana emerald
/castsequence [nomodifier] reset=60 conjure water, conjure water, conjure mana emerald, conjure food, conjure food, evocation
This is a one-button food/water/gem macro. If you hold down ctrl while clicking it casts, if you hold down alt it casts food, with shift it casts mana emeralt (you'll want to change that if your spell is different).
If you don't hold down a modifier, it's a cast-sequence of water, water (makes 20), mana emerald, food, food (makes 20), and evocation. It will reset after a minute.

Mount
#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift] Hearthstone; [modifier:alt] Swift Palomino; [flyable] Swift Red Gryphon; Swift Palomino
This will cast my (epic) flying mount if I'm in a place I can use it (ie. Outland), otherwise it will cast my ground mount. If you hold down shift it will cast Hearthstone, and alt overrides to the horse.

Polymacro
#showtooltip
/focus [target=focus, noexists]
/focus [target=focus, dead]
/focus [modifier:shift]
/s Polymorphing >%f<! Watch for it!
/castrandom [target=focus] Polymorph: Pig, Polymorph
This will focus my current target if my focus is dead or doesn't exist or if I hold down shift while clicking. It then makes an announcement of what I'm doing, and polymorphs my focus.

Ice Block
#showtooltip
/me is now a block of ice! Watch for disgruntled mobs!
/cast Ice Block
I like to let people know when I do this because it will wipe my aggro. My paladin companion likes it when we're duoing instances because she knows she can shield herself and not worry about me.

THE EYE
/target eye
/cast Fire Blast
If you've ever done undead Stratholme, this is for you. Usually takes out the Eye in one shot.

GTK Themes

I was recently alarmed to discover that my preferred IM client, Gaim, had been renamed to Pidgin and updated and nobody had told me. So I installed the new version and was suitably disoriented by the removal of protocol-specific icons. I see from their website that this is part of their approach to transparency of multi-protocol IM.

At any rate, I found myself somewhat dissatisfied with the default GTK skins. So to save anybody else the Googling and hunting I went through here's how you do it on Windows:

• You can download new themes for GTK from here: http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/
• Unzip the theme you have chosen and copy it to C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\share\themes
• Select the theme using the GTK+ Theme Selector that was probably added to your Start Menu.
  

If anybody is looking for the "auto-convert older entries" option in their LiveJournal profile...

I eventually found it at http://www.livejournal.com/settings/?c=OldEncoding

You need to set this in order to use LJ Archive to backup your old entries. In fact, it wouldn't even backup my new entries until I set this.