• The Never-Ending Bloga

    I’m Grinnin’

    Wow, I managed to implement that smiley project in one swell foop. 8) 😀 ="Very Happy" 🙂 ="Smile" 🙁 ="Sad" 😮 ="Surprised" 😯 ="Shocked" :confused: ="Confused" 8) ="Cool" 😆 ="Laughing" 😡 ="Mad" 😛 ="Razz" :blush: ="Embarassed" 😥 ="Crying or Very Sad" 👿 ="Evil or Very Mad" 😈 ="Twisted Evil" 🙄 ="Rolling Eyes" 😉 ="Wink" Powered by MT Smileys The instructions for doing it and an accompanying discussion thread are here. NOTE: There was a typo in the “Powered by” link – be sure to close the tag.

  • Books

    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    This book is getting all kinds of attention. I’ve just started it – I think I’m on about the second chapter. So far it reads like an agreeable, drily humorous novel by Jonathan Swift or Lawrence Sterne (it’s a lot like Tristram Shandy in tone and era, except with wizards). Nobody corresponding to “My Uncle Toby” yet, though.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    A Little Light Housekeeping

    House G.O.P. Voids Rule It Adopted Shielding Leader Now that the elections are safely over it’s okay to repudiate that ethically shaky rule, which was the Congressional equivalent of dust bunnies under the bed. This post is to test the NYT Link Generator, as I’ve been avoiding linking to the NYT owing to their Subscription-required access Fee-based archives Crappy angle brackets used as separators So if this works well, I’ll be very happy to link to NYT articles, rather than just reading them.

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Next Exercise

    MTHacks’ MT Smileys This might be the next thing to tackle. Unlike other smileys packages I’ve looked at, it accomplishes things with includes and macros. Clickable, too. Hmm. However, I was hoping to use some square smileys that come in a range of colors that I ran across somewhere, so more thinking is needed.