Tag: blog

Well I am still around, final­ly man­aged to fix a tech­ni­cal prob­lem that was pre­vent­ing me from log­ging into my blog soft­ware. The tech guys at my web­host pulled out a mod­ule that I was using, but I asked them nice so they put it back in.

So you found my blog again. Good for you. Not that it was that well hid­den or any­thing, but still you both­ered and that counts for a hell of a lot in my book.
I’m desig­ing a new site and once I’ve fin­ished that this place will get a new lick of paint, till then it can stay in its out of the box design (which isn’t actu­al­ly that bad, kudos to the guys that make Mov­able­Type)

This will be the last entry on this site. News on where you can read the excit­ing adven­tures of Dave and his friends will pub­lished soon.

Some search top­ics that are putting my lit­tle page on the first result page of google:
“for­get to zip up pants”
“bored out of my brain”
“mozarts 3rd”
“food poi­son­ing from car­rots”

Last night as I was drift­ing off to sleep I remem­ber think­ing ‘That’ll make a great arti­cle for my weblog.’ Wish I could remem­ber what the idea was…
Any­way, I’m work­ing on some behind the scene things. Cur­rent­ly this is most­ly new CSS work, and it is com­ming togeth­er slow­ly. When I’m done this page your read­ing will be result of one html file and three (3) css files.
Why three?
This is where the pow­er of the cas­cade comes in.
The first file will be the lay­out, basi­cal­ly things like ‘the links bar goes on the left, the page head­er goes at the top, font face and size’.
The sec­ond file will be the col­or for all the ele­ments, ‘pur­ple hilight, grey back­ground, bright yel­low links’.
The third file will be the stuff that is per­cu­liar to the blog mark.
Once all this is done every page on my site can fit with­in the same lay­out, but have dif­fer­ent col­or scheems depend­ing on the sec­tion… sounds good in the­o­ry, get­ting it to work just takes time to make sure I’ve put every­thing in the right place.

Well, I’ve spent a few hours tidy­ing up a bit, adding in some new graph­ics square thingys, updat­ing all the cgi’s that I use. Maybe some­time soon I’ll take the time to tight­en up the lay­out.

A year ago the first entry was post­ed on this blog… well the first pub­lic entry, the first entry that is still there. (The actu­al first entry was post­ed near the end of June 2001)
Any­way, 206 entries, 192 com­ments and 453 bad deci­sions lat­er I find that the com­ments made in that first entry are still true. Worse, some (most) of the projects I was talk­ing about back then still haven’t hap­pened, and I’ve added to the list (and since then lost the list).
But the blog, good or bad, is here, has some stuff in it, some of which I’m even proud about. And I’m not one to be proud of myself very often (embar­rassed or ashamed all the time, but not proud).
This fun­ny lit­tle blog is still an exper­i­ment, noth­ing more than doo­dles on a black­board, but that was all it was ever meant to be, so it is a suc­cess.
I might even find the inspi­ra­tion to post more than once a week… but don’t count on it.

A friend of mine has be bug­ging me for a while to be able to post things on to my lit­tle blog. Every feel­ing, every fiber and every fac­ul­ty of my being is warn­ing me that this is a very bad idea. This is why I’ve decid­ed to do it.
I’ve got to make a few changes to the tem­plates and so on, but you can expect to see his first post­ing soon. I’ll leave the intro­duc­tions to him.
I’m not going to cen­sor his posts, and as a result I should remind every­one that this blog is unrat­ed, so don’t always expect to see G rat­ed mate­r­i­al.