phil ringnalda

How about that: PPK agrees with me about XHTML, a mere year and half before me, in Rated XHTML at ALA.

From our Far Too Proud of Minor Coding Victories Department: the “Recently seen” select menu in the upper right (what do you mean it’s not a select menu? enable JavaScript and reload) is actually a Blogger-powered blog. The highly-detailed template consists of <Blogger><$BlogItemBody$><br></Blogger>. The resulting file is read by a (currently grossly inefficient) PHP function […]

My kind of cooking site: The Single Man’s Guide to TV Dinners. This site embodies the perfect reading accompaniment to a pleasant repast of Freschetta Supreme Pizza emboldened by the addition of Musco Family Olive Co. Black Pearls Sliced Ripe Olives (which, sadly, is precisely what I was eating while reading it). [Anythink ->Mike’s Weblog->Newsisfree->Me]

Hah! A reprieve: Blogger’s template server is down again, serving up a 500 error for the archive template and a blank textarea for the main template. Woohoo, I get to surf instead of working on my site!

Pardon the broken links in the menu to the right, if you would: I seem to be far too distractable lately. All I need to do is to swap templates a couple of times on three different blogs and I’ll be done moving in, but every time I start to get it done, somebody comments […]

I am not amused.

NYPL: Style Guide: XHTML: Benefits : um, what are they again? The web is moving to XML, which is moderately useful for data interchange, so I should write my web pages as fake XML? It’s cleaner and more logical? In what way is <br /> more logical than <br>? Proper nesting is better than improper, […]

How to scare yourself silly: test mod_rewrite very carefully, in a .htaccess buried several directories down, but do it seconds before a server or dns problem temporarily renders your site inaccessible. Oh crap, I broke my site!

Getting there. I’ve got multiple blogs on a single index file, and a way to redirect anything except permalinks on Blog*Spot that don’t point to /?/filename.html#number (don’t quite know where the #fragment goes during the redirect from archives/filename to ?/filename, but it sure doesn’t go anywhere JavaScript can find it). All that’s left is to […]

Sheesh. This is taking way too long. I think I’ve got a system for running all my blogs off a single index file, so if it works out, I’ll start to move them over.