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Archives for October 2003

css ninja moves

“Tim Bray is having trouble with print stylesheets”:http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/10/02/Print alas, I can’t find any contact info on his site, so I’ll just make some notes here for the time being and maybe look for that later. (I’m one to talk, right?) 1) it seems to me that almost all browsers have issues with background images/colors and [...]

feed on feeds thoughts

darn easy to set up. pain in the ass to add all the blogs on my blogrolling list, but I don’t know if there’s anything else that could be done for that. I don’t especially care for the “detail” view (I don’t know exactly what it’s called). What I really want in the new items [...]

for my own notes

not auto-subscribable thru feed on feeds (strikethroughs could be added manually): * webgraphics * memex * kottke * windley * signal v. noise * rebecca blood * flummel * big white guy * there is no cat * gus * evhead * talking points memo * anita * stavros * is that legal? * greater [...]

oooh, ultrasimple

I decided to try out the basic display, and so help me, I think I like it. in case you missed it, I’ve been reconfiguring this blog so it matches the look of the rest of my site. I’ve got that pretty much under control now. but I’m thinking, vaguely, about a design upgrade. the [...]

form and function

I’m wondering how my journal-style blogging will be affected by the switch in software, especially since I’ve used mt for something like 9 months primarily for blogging of the link-comment variety. I’m finding myself wanting a larger font, for one thing (god I’m getting old) and a window that stretches across more of the screen, [...]

intense

it’s been an intense afternoon. sometimes people really surprise you in wonderful ways. I don’t know how much I can or should write beyond that. (and then greyson called, and said “sometimes good things happen to good people” and that was just about what I needed to hear at that exact minute.)

hold on tight, kids

this weekend might be a bit of a bumpy ride as I get this blog resettled into MT. yep, I finally went ahead & did it. I even integrated in my old blog from before Febrary 2002! (more than 1000 entries altogther, but they imported quite smoothly. more on that later, I think.)

now in movable type!

I’ve got the basics down (importing entries and setting the archive links), but there’s so much more to do….