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.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Forward Into The Past
Previously: Well, there are no previouslys, except in the sense that the entire episode is nothing but a string of previouslys, so it’s not clear that anything can be considered to be the previouslys to what happened previously. Look at me, bending time and space. You can thank me later when the pizza that you order on Thursday arrives on Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Alli attempts to deal with the time paradox posed by a TAR clip show depicting events that happened months ago, but they’re new to us so we’re all exercised and outaged over assy-brat behavior now. So where’s my damn pizza already?
The New Blog In Town
Announcing Innocents: A Blog, a webblog for Holy Innocents Episcopal Church.
If you take a look at it, you’ll see that there are static content pages off of the “breadcrumbs” menu, corresponding to pages on the “main” church website. In the next few days, I will gradually be shifting all of the content over from there into Moveable Type (MT). And not using Front Page (MS). Ever again.
And yes, I’ve been a-hankering to do this for a while. I’ve decided that the blog part of the site will be integral; categories will be used for blog-like entries for things like committee news, lay ministries and scheduling, church school stuff, and so on. Currently, I’m posting all the entries I have in “Main,” as it’s functioning like a report of that Sunday’s doings (with pictures, when possible). I suppose wth the categories, it could work like a monthly bulletin that we used to have, now that I think about it.
I can’t really say why exactly I hated working with Front Page, except that I found it clunky and confusing and all the stuff I needed to do was buried on some tab of a sub-category dialogue box, and when I looked at the “HTML” (or what they chose to show me, since much of it was tactfully hidden away somewhere) I was horrified.
Tonight for the first time with Front Page, I tried to do a simple bit of CSS to add a simple border to images that ought to have worked across-the-board, but when I got into it, I realized it was strictly on a page-by-page basis. And the thought of doing this every time was maddening, and apparently the only way to do it globally is to write up an external CSS file. I had previously been adding drop shadows for the church website in Photoshop, but I’m much happier with the look of the CSS-created drop shadows that I finally got working at this site.
Okay, well, that wasn’t happening. So it was actually easier to start tinkering with the test blog I’d put together for the church and add static pages. Images, of course, were a lot easier to deal with.
The fun part was figuring out how to do the menu; I’m pretty happy with the simple background style that gives a faux-tab effect.
For the moment, comments will be disabled. I’d have to get MT-Blacklist installed over there.
I’ll be curious to know what other Episcopal bloggers will think of the project, such as AKMA, Fr. Salty, and ***Dave.
Shakespeare Reduction Sauce
Hmm. Reduced Shakespeare Company is coming to Elgin. Since we’ve screwed up on getting “Holy Grail” theater tickets, this might suffice.
March 18
ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (abridged)
Elgin Community College
Visual and Performing Arts Center
Elgin, Illinois
Box Office: 847-622-0300
Welcome Isaac Newton Tomb Fans
Welcome, Isaac Newton Westminster Abbey Tomb Hunters of 2005! The picture and description you are looking for is here.
Yes, I’m procrastinating on the damn travel journal for a bit longer. At least now I can deal with the images a little better than when I started.
Happy, Merry, Resolute New Year
Another year, another milestone, another period of hapless casting about for something interesting to blog about. When faced with this problem, many of us turn to our stats pages for a little navel-gazing. And what better time than on New Year's Day? Just who are the robots, spiders, and visitors who drop by? Naturally, any good stats page includes information about connections from other sites. This is usually where the spam hits the fan – a lot of the links turn out to be for C-list sleb porn and for hosting services and info-harvesters. Now and then, though, there's an honest link from an honest site, and it's fun to check a new one. Links from sites that blogroll this one show up there, and it's fun to find a link from someone whose site I visited havinng a reciprocal look round. Quite often, a completely new and unfamiliar link leads back to a site someone is trying to publicize; less often, it's a site that's worth a visit. I was happy to find a couple of new links in my stats log today; even better, when I visited them nobody tried to sell me anything. GSM-Bristol Elizabethan Military is a discussion forum for some Bristol Renaissance Faire folks who belong to a weapons and military history group. This next one is probably only for the delusional: Al Gore '08 but at least they're out there giving it a shot. Then there's this one, who've been showing up in the logs for a while: Postami.com They seem to be an aggregator/RSS feed finder. Finally, it's time I looked at the search phrases that bring people here. Some of them are old standbys, some of them are new for the first time. I'm amazed at the fact that people search on the phrase "newton westminster abbey tomb photo" at all, let alone almost every frickin' month. Why? Is it kids doing homework? People with a dead scientist fetish? Next order of business: New Year's resolutions. Rather than post a big-ass meme (the one with 40 questions shows up in my Bloglines feed about 10 times a day, gah) I'll just resolve to excercise 3 times a week and use my nifty new cookware more often. And be nicer. That's it. And now, I may actually finish up the September 2004 trip journal at last.