So the new liquid layout for Notio may have some bugs yet to uncover, but the basics are working pretty well. My brother was visiting this weekend, and he has a Treo 650 smart phone. This thing has a web browser with maybe 240 pixels of width. Amazingly, he had a “three-bar” Cingular signal at […]
Moveable Type 3.2
What the heck, I thought. I updated the weblog publishing software to version 3.2 this morning. The docs are much better than the last version, about which I complained. But the upgrade script hung on the MT::Entries table, and after an hour I ran it again. It skipped all that and seemed to complete okay. […]
Notio Redesigned, Again
That habit of mine struck again. Every time I get overloaded with work I add on an unrelated diversion, such as reading ten books, throwing a family party, buying a new camera, or redesigning my weblog. Sometimes, like this week, all of them all at once. I had two goals for redesigning Notio. First, to […]
Evolution of an idea
Back in the day, memepool was one of my very favorite websites. It was more or less anonymous, had a biting wit, posted very unusual links, and updated frequently so it made for a good daily browse. It was just a guy or two, sharing their cool links with whoever found them. The design remains […]
Any Questions?
jumping_in = { ‘bandwagon’ => ‘true’ ‘initial_impression’ => ‘good’ ‘brain_candy’ => ‘yum’ ‘project_ideas’ => ‘too_many’ ‘time_for_this’ => ‘false’ }
Messing with fonts
Yesterday I used FontDoctor to clean up my fonts. I think I checked a few too many options, because today I’m getting screens that look like this: Looks like a blog, doesn’t it? I wonder what it says…. I guess I’ll be testing the quality and reliability of my backups today. [Update: Backups are good! […]
For Typographers Only
If you want to have multiple paragraph bullets with correct left-justify formatting, you have to use a soft return. That means in order to get the correct paragraph spacing the “bullets” style should be set for a “space before” and not a “space after.” Someday I should make a decision matrix of what kinds of […]
Entertainment ruminations
World of Warcraft, the “subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game,” by Blizzard Entertainment, now has 2 million subscribers. Each player has purchased the CD-ROM for $49.99. In addition, there are three monthly payment plans: The month-to-month subscription plan costs $14.99 per month, the three-month plan costs $13.99 per month, and the six-month plan costs $12.99 […]
Later in life
There’s some sort of bit flipped in my computer. Every time a context-sensitive tool-tip is supposed to pop up, I instead get a tool-tip that says “later in life.” I mean, okay, it’s funny for a while, but then it gets to be weird. And then, even typing this entry, meta-recursive-like, see above. I mean, […]
Appropriate Automation
Last night MacFLAC 2.1.2 (OS X) was choking on filenames of this form: dmb2005-06-01.akg483.v3.d1t01.flac I suspected the additional dots in the filename were the problem, and there were 19 files to fix. Should I do it manually? Nah, let’s learn something instead. I fired up the new Apple “Automator” application for the very first time, […]