15:39 Tweaked things. It now looks OK under IE7 again. No clue what I did.

This obviously makes me wonder who else reads this blog that I don’t know about… either current friends, or people from the past. That said, if you’re reading this, please leave a comment (on my blog, not using the LJ comment system please). Feel free to make it a guessing game if you want, though, if you don’t leave me an email address, you’ll have to re-read the comments.

On a semi-related note, it seems like LJ syndication isn’t picking up all my posts. Looking at my feed, I think it’s on LJ’s side, not mine. I think it occurs either when I edit a post, or I post more than one entry between the times that LJ actually reads my feed.

Ceeder… Paul H. is that you?

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…

Feedback on the implementation and look & feel are welcome.

I’ve also registered another domain. I have some ideas for what to do with it… haven’t decided which to do yet… I also haven’t decided whether to use a Linux or Windows host.

Update: 2004-11-06: I’ve switched jobs, so I can un-hide this.

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.

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>.

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.

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?

Visitors from: Canada, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Japan, United States (.us), Finland, Luxembourg Australia, India, Brazil, USA Military (.mil), Italy, France, Sweden, International (.int), Israel, Turkey, Latvia, Greece

OS: 6% Mac, 2% Linux, 7 visits from Web TV.

Browsers: 3% Netscape, mostly v6 and above, although there’s a big bunch of v4.05… my site sucks under Netscapes that old. 6% Firebird, a lot of that is probably me, 4% Mozilla, 3% Safari, Some Opera, WebCollage (PDA/Phone Browser), WebTV again, and LibWWW? Maybe that was me verifying HTML or something.

34% direct type-ins. 41% from search engines, mostly Google. A smattering of hits from weird search engines too. Also links from weird places like this gifts page and someone who actually found something useful.

Top search phrase was “water st st johns nfld” and top search word was “pictures”. Lotsa hits on searching about VB, .Net, pictures, Canadians, CV, etc. Not all of them currently hit on Google, and they may actually come from other engines.

• burst blood vessel in eye (#6)
• can you touch your elbows behind your back? (#3)
• dina hot Not Safe For Work
• dina porn Not Safe For Work
• dots or feathers (#2)
• las vegas pool bikinis
• bikini zoom lens (#1)
• pictures blue mohawk (#4)
• cute girly quotes
• quotes on being hungover (#13)
• sexy ladies in st johns new found land burin canada
• suicide quechee gorge jump
• poker chip flourishes
• beautiful alma novel
• rene zellweger shape changing pics
• ages 12-18 in bikinis
• birth control glasses (#19)
• caricature builder (#3)
• banana in bed photograph (#6)
• sex in the office discussion
• pictures of girls tied up to a chair in there bikinis
• soulwise wireless
• pictures purple banana (#5)

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;
}