Strange Aeons
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Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.
He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.
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Spring Cleaning...
I changed the strange aeons wordpress theme this afternoon from the old one which was a hacked version of the simplicity-light theme to the latest version of Thematic. I have been using an earlier version of Thematic for some of my teaching sites as it is a robust and straightforward theme if you just want to get some information across. This latest version has a much better colourscheme, plain white - nice and simple with plenty of places to add widgets for customisable layout. After much trial and error this has lead to the following layout, with the old theme on the left for comparison with the new scheme on the right:
A big improvement I think. With the widgets in the footer of the page displaying lists of recent posts, recent comments, and categories, I am much happier than I was before where I thought that the categories list was getting out of hand. Now the side bar lists are condensed into drop down menus where possible and useful. I will now have to see how this pans out in usage, and how difficult it is to customise for other sites. If simple I may just adopt thematic as the default for everything and just customise with colour schemes and some judiciously selected and placed graphics.
