Since I occasionally blog about something useful, I’ve added a list of useful links to the sidebar (currently to the right of the content). Dina suggested that I ask ‘my readers’ what posts they found especially useful or amusing, or were otherwise favourites. I’ll add some of your suggestions to the sidebar too.
Archive for the ‘Meta’ Category
Password Protected Entries
2005-09-06 17:00
I’m starting to password protect some entries. Email me (using either the links on my site, my blog, or the one in your address book) to get the password for a particular entry. I know, I know, it sucks compared to the LiveJournal model. Sorry. I’m working on things like TypeKey support and other features to make it better.
Why am I password protecting entries?
- There are things I don’t want anyone to read, but I want to blog about anyway. I find that re-reading my blog years later is a very useful thing. I can be cryptic, but sometimes that just doesn’t cut it. Either I forget what I was being cryptic about, or something is too obvious, and no amount of obfuscation will help.
- There are things that I don’t want certain people to read. One notable example of this is people I work with. Juggling my blog and NerveWire, Merrill Lynch, and VistaPrint, though interesting, was not fun. There are also times when I’d like to be able to vent about something without actually impacting what I’m venting about. Social and group dynamics may fall into this category.
- There are things that I don’t mind sharing with my friends, but I don’t want to be on the internet / googlable.
- Because…
Visualization
2004-09-08 18:14
Meta-Aside: Added search to the footer on every page. Cool.
Just had five rolls of film developed, one from my cousin David’s wedding, and 4 from my step-sister Sandra’s wedding. I’m quite proud of myself. A lot of the pictures are good. Two areas where I’ve traditionally been weak, people and light, came out quite well. Lotsa room for improvement, but a glimmer of hope along two otherwise dull axes. My goal is to use time when I’m watching football to get picture related stuff done.
At squares last night, I purposely danced a square with seven phantoms. Though I picked the strongest possible dancer as my shadow, I rarely relied on him to figure out my location. Most of the time my eyes were closed anyway. I only messed up once. The important part though, is that I was able to fully visualize the formation around me for most of the tip. In my opinion, my visualization skills, or lack thereof, has been the main impediment to my learning of squares. I’d be able to learn quicker, and be a stronger dancer at all levels were my visualization skills on par with the other ones that I use in squares. It’s cool that I’m making progress, and improving a skill I’ve known I’ve had issues with since I was about 8.
I’m chuffed. Two visual things coming together.
Misc
2004-09-07 18:18
On a social note, I’m starting to feel minorly paranoid about various things.
I thought I’d gotten rid of that problem a while back.
Apparently not completely.
First, I need to stop fretting about it openly and externalizing it.
Then I need to take a deep breath and let go of the useless paranoia altogether.
Just took a look at my August web logs. Holy crap. Google Image Search apparently loves proper semantic markup. Simply adding a good title=”", alt=”", and good descriptions around the image means that all together, the various flavours of Google Image Search contributed about 7,000 hits to my site last month. Not bad at all for something that I don’t advertise and isn’t widely linked to. I’m wondering what would happen if I made some of the image descriptions into <h2 style=”display : inline;“> … </h2>.
IE Sucks
2004-06-20 18:33
I finally figured out how to add a table of contents to my blog (on my website, not on LJ).
That’s why the logo is now on the right. The left is left free for navigation.
Getting it to work the way I wanted in IE was impossible. So I punted. I actually have browser detection code that disables the thing if you’re using IE. Getting it to work in FireFox was quite fun though. Learned a fair bit about both CSS and JavaScript. Browser layout engines are pretty sweet. Click on the Contents link in the top left corner of the window. It may take a bit of time to appear, it has to crawl the DOM for a pretty large document. If you’re using another browser, please send feedback on how it works for you.
While I was at it, I added a page to help me with square dance calling. Update: 2004-08-15: Page removed.
Grrr
2004-05-05 18:40
This entry started out as a LiveJournal only entry.
It actually got enough comments to make me seriously consider keeping my blog completely on LJ.
Either that, or I have to get off my ass and get comments and an RSS feed working off this site.
One of the things I like about LiveJournal is that it’s just that much more spontaneous than my own web site blog which it normally mirrors… no compiling, no source control…
So… first, my Treo broke… just the flip top… it’s epoxied back together… for now… we’ll see how long that lasts…
Second, I’m in a really foul mood this evening… have turned down two social engagements because of it… really feel like… dunno… being destructive… whether self or something else is neither here nor there… mind you… having drunk 4 martinis now… it’s much more likely that I’m going to go to sleep instead… life fucking sucks…
Aren’t y’all tired of the self-centered angst yet?
Site Feature
2004-03-27 19:02
In a continuing effort to brush up my JavaScript skills,
and because it looks pretty, images now display in a page.
The downside is now the site requires JavaScript for some things.
“That, Mr. Anderson, is the sound of inevitability.”
Meta
2003-12-01 19:47
I’m going to start maintaining duplicate entries at
LiveJournal
and at varacalli.com.
I’ll see which system I like best.
Currently, I have a feeling that it will be varacalli.com, since I’m enough of a control freak.
OTOH, LiveJournal is available anywhere.
Site Updates
2003-08-30 08:57
Uploaded the white water rafting pictures.
Split out the Maritime road trip pictures into a separate page.
Nifty new rollover effect for pictures.
Not that great, but I get to roll-my-own utilities to do the work, so I’m happy.
Also cleaned up a bunch of the picture HTML, automated some uploading, and fixed some internal naming.
Learned that the proper way to center a tablePictures pages, for layout. or a divRésumé page of paper effect is to use:
.CenteredBlockElement
{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}