Working on converting my tons of bookmarked blogs, plus my Blogtracker list, plus all the blogs I only see when I happen to catch them on weblogs.com and all the blogs that I’ve lost track of because I forgot to add them to any list, to my list at blo.gs so that I can use […]
One more item off my todo list from last weekend: my Blogger archive script generator is done (or at least done enough to be usable: instructions and design always seem to come last, if at all). If you use Blogger, and use Javascript to include your links in the main and archive pages, I’d appreciate […]
I do so love to randomly blog surf, for little scraps of other lives that remind me of found art, like clarablog saying Yay! I finally went to buy rat food! It took me a week to build up the energy, but I did it :-) I thought about reading for the backstory, but really, […]
Damn, I didn’t even make it past the first bullet-list in this web copy style guide before it became clear that I was hopeless: Get to the point. Use short words and phrases, rather than longer ones, and omit unnecessary words. Keep it simple. Express one thought at a time, and use plain language. Don’t […]
tuesday, january 22 into html i am born. wednesday, january 23 html is a painful mess. Cynischism? Oh, yeah, I was linking to him clear back in 2002. <edit>Oops. Didn’t mean to give you performance anxiety. Hard to believe, with my “two posts a week if you are lucky, three if you aren’t” schedule, that […]
Text selection bug: fixed. This is actually a bug in the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer, which refuses to select text in a DIV positioned absolutely. I rejiggered (that’s a technical term) the stylesheets so this main text DIV is positioned relatively. The site should look more or less the same, but Mac IE users […]
I’m realizing once again that there’s a reason I’m not a professional programmer: I’m not very good at it. Working on my archive script generator. The generator itself went just fine (so far), thanks to the friendly nature of PHP, but now I need to work out some Javascript details. Most of it is already […]
nosuch.org : If it weren’t for sarcasm, this page would consist of nothing but an animated “under construction” graphic. Heh. That’s a great idea: a prominent “sarcasm free version of this blog” link that leads to a really cheesy under construction gif, with a bit of mouse-trapping for good measure. (Just kidding.)
(Thrown out here in public on the off chance it will force me to actually do it) Blogroll that sorts in update order, from weblogs.com or maybe blo.gs (do I know anyone who doesn’t ping weblogs.com? or is blocked there?) Redo local nav and referer dropdowns so they are crawler/non-javascript friendly Consider non-javascript link for […]
Jonathon Delacour ran across that fine old argument-starter, the Modern Library 100 best novels list, and noticed The Readers’ list has four books by Ayn Rand and three by L. Ron Hubbard in the top ten! Is this a joke? Am I missing something here? Seems fairly obvious to me: if you want rabid “vote […]