Elise made me think I could do it; Moveable Blog’s “Asides” template may point me to a solution to a niggling little problem in a flailing project that’s almost ready for the main stage. If I get it to work, there will be a short sideblog of quick links on the left column; this will tend to get the quick choppy link-only posts out of the way of the content. Also, it’ll be quicker to jump in and out with a new link for those time when I gotta blog from work. I’ll have to cut down on workaday blogging…
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You know how sometimes, things go really well? And other times, things don’t go so well, and you only have yourself to blame? Well, what about those times when really well and not so well are all mooshed together? That’s how I feel. I feel really good about being more informed about politics. Also, I feel pretty good about some of the horses in the race. I like their chances. I feel pretty good about being better informed in general about international and national news. This is a result of reading about 4 or 5 news feeds via Bloglines. I…
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It seems that David is now at stage 3 with his WordPress blog: he’s created a button. As in “cool crap to stick on the sidewall.”
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Need to verify if I have Save Href installed per Al-Muhajabah’s Movable Type Tips’ recommendation. I quote a LOT of URLs that have ampersands, and although I tried to set up something to fix it, it doesn’t seem to be working. Nowhere close to validating. However, Elise’s previous advice on the topic is also helpful: don’t get too hung up on having to have every page validate.
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Good… GOD! There was much gnashing of teeth over center content that was playing “tag” and “hide ‘n seek” with the side columns on the 3-legged blog today. Lots of futzing and saving of various close-but-not-quite stylesheets later, I finally tracked down the problem. It was the italics in the blockquotes. No matter what values I set for the various columns, the italics were just enough to throw it all into confusion. End result: no more italics in blockquotes. So then what do I do? Download Firefox and muck about a bit more. Huh. Not bad – it works in…
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But running the website soon became a dominant activity in his day, and on June 28, Billmon announced: “Last call.” Whiskey Bar would no longer accept comments. “You’ve only got so many hours in the day, and like most bloggers, I’ve got a full-time day job, and something had to give,” Billmon said. “In the end, monitoring comments on my blog was becoming a progressively larger part of my blogging time, and I just got to the point where I wasn’t able to keep up with it.” It’s always a shame when a well-written, popular blog stops taking comments, or…
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At a recent conference, there’s mention that the new version of MT coming out will have dynamic templates – this is a good thing. However, will have to figure out if I’ll still be able to use MT-Amazon in entries – this may not be possible or prudent with the new version. Need to find out more, as I’m in the habit of doing Amazon tags on the fly, rather than in static content. About breaking plugins, they’ve chosen this route because for some plugins it is ridiculous to expect them to work in dynamic templates. He gave me the…
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Yeah, well, I’ve been hankering after a 3 column layout for a while now, and this one works in both IE6 and Firefox. My old 2 column layout does not play well in Firefox: probably something icky to do with either divs, or it doesn’t understand the width expressed as a percentage. It only took all day. However, part of yesterday and much of today were spent chasing after a 3 column solution that simply would not work; I found a much more workable one that was easier to adapt at the Moveable Type support forum. For the record, the…
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I’ve uninstalled MT-Bayesian, a plug-in for Moveable Type that was supposed to be a sort of spam filter for comments. It wasn’t working right and the creator does not recommend its use anymore now. I still have MT-Blacklist, which I’ll keep running until it’s worth upgrading to MT3.0 for the more robust comment and trackback management. However, now comments are flakey – specifically the comment-preview script doesn’t seem to be working. At first I thought I’d lost a comment I added, then when I refreshed, it was there after all. I’ll try to get that fixed this weekend.
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Yesterday, it was the Little Free, Web-Based News Aggregator that could. Today, totally new look with clickable tabs, blogs, feeds, and all kinds of clicky goodness. Some of the new features are interesting (tabs and sharing feeds) and some are not (kind of a harsh blue on the eye when looking at the aggregator, it needs to be paler and less painful). Some of their choices for font size and so on are a bit questionable, too.