As you have no doubt noticed, I’ve done a bit of a redesign, mostly based on this skin. I added the sidebar. Realizing that if I painstakingly redid each template before relaunching, I’d be here till April, I took a deep breath and jumped in and kicked it off, so things are gonna be a bit rough for a while.
Category: Navel-Gazing
Nothing funner than slamming in a Movable Type upgrade first thing in the morning before I take off to sunny California. Looks immensely cool, though. Let me know if you see any problems. It’s worth installing, though, for a myriad of reasons readers won’t notice.
- Better text formatting
- HTML allowed in comments (hm, OK, that’ll be noticable)
- Creative Commons license support (gotta turn that on)
The above was egregious, but also tested the text formatting. As usual, let me know if anything breaks.
Edit: woo! Text formatting improvements — just work!
I was looking for a way to permit random people to submit entries to Movable Type, and there’s not really any way to do it out of the box, so I wrote this CGI. It is not entirely polished; in particular, it ought to use a config file and of course the HTML is gonna need to be changed. It also ought to display a success page. However, I realized last night that I was going to wind up modifying it substantially to meet my specific needs and that it wouldn’t be so generally useful post-modification, so here you go.
Note that unless you add NoPublishMeansDraft 1 to your mt.cfg file, submissions will be not be posted as drafts. More details on that here.
Edit: Mmm. Yeah. Sorry about that; I stuck the CGI off in the extended entry bit.
I upgraded my back end database this morning, in the hopes that it would clear up some of the posting problems I’ve been having lately. Please let me know if you experience any problems, particularly when posting comments.
Martin Kimel has an interesting blog.
I just implemented this tip. Someday I’ll be the kind of person who meticulously adds titles to my links by hand, too.
Entries were kinda light over the last few days because I was finishing up my zombies. (No kidding.) They will be light the next few days because I’m starting a new job. (Yay!) But no fear, I’ll be back.
I just added Sub Judice to my blogroll, cause I’m a lawyer junkie. It’s not so much a weblog as it is a dialogue: two lawyers, discussing issues of interest to them. They’ve been talking about the Grutter v. Bollinger case recently, which may well mark the end of affirmative action in college admissions.
I’ve also added Confessions of a Mozillan, which is written by Dave Hyatt, one of the main Safari developers. He’s commenting on issues reported with Safari, and letting us know about fixes. This is very impressive interactivity.
And, while I’m pointing, I recommend reading TPB’s latest.
By the by, I am sick as a dog and stoned out of my head on TheraFlu, so if I say anything really wacky today (or if I said anything really wacky yesterday) that’s why. I keep thinking I’m writing pithy witty paragraphs. I am very probably wrong.
It’s pretty much traditional among a certain class of geek bloggers to come up with a way to set up an email->blog gateway. I’ve sort of put this off for a while, but since I’m pretty sure I’m about to go out and indulge in a Sidekick, the day can be delayed no longer. Thus: this entry, which was in fact posted wholly from within my email client.
Which is mutt, and you can’t tell me that doesn’t make it worse.