• Blogs Wot I Read

    What Your Web Designer Is Thinking

    Web designer Bloggermouth Ken imagines the perfect answers to clients’ questions: The Question: “Can you make our logo to zoom across the page when it loads? That would look really cool.” What I want to say: “No it wouldn’t, you fucking moron.” The Question: “Can you set up my used car dealership site to play the theme to ‘Chariots of Fire’?” What I want to say: “Sure!!” If only I had a Coke handy so I could spit it all over my monitor and demand compensation. 😉

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    I’m Grinnin’

    Wow, I managed to implement that smiley project in one swell foop. 8) 😀 ="Very Happy" 🙂 ="Smile" 🙁 ="Sad" 😮 ="Surprised" 😯 ="Shocked" :confused: ="Confused" 8) ="Cool" 😆 ="Laughing" 😡 ="Mad" 😛 ="Razz" :blush: ="Embarassed" 😥 ="Crying or Very Sad" 👿 ="Evil or Very Mad" 😈 ="Twisted Evil" 🙄 ="Rolling Eyes" 😉 ="Wink" Powered by MT Smileys The instructions for doing it and an accompanying discussion thread are here. NOTE: There was a typo in the “Powered by” link – be sure to close the tag.

  • Books

    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    This book is getting all kinds of attention. I’ve just started it – I think I’m on about the second chapter. So far it reads like an agreeable, drily humorous novel by Jonathan Swift or Lawrence Sterne (it’s a lot like Tristram Shandy in tone and era, except with wizards). Nobody corresponding to “My Uncle Toby” yet, though.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    A Little Light Housekeeping

    House G.O.P. Voids Rule It Adopted Shielding Leader Now that the elections are safely over it’s okay to repudiate that ethically shaky rule, which was the Congressional equivalent of dust bunnies under the bed. This post is to test the NYT Link Generator, as I’ve been avoiding linking to the NYT owing to their Subscription-required access Fee-based archives Crappy angle brackets used as separators So if this works well, I’ll be very happy to link to NYT articles, rather than just reading them.

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Next Exercise

    MTHacks’ MT Smileys This might be the next thing to tackle. Unlike other smileys packages I’ve looked at, it accomplishes things with includes and macros. Clickable, too. Hmm. However, I was hoping to use some square smileys that come in a range of colors that I ran across somewhere, so more thinking is needed.

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Forward Into The Past

    Previously: Well, there are no previouslys, except in the sense that the entire episode is nothing but a string of previouslys, so it’s not clear that anything can be considered to be the previouslys to what happened previously. Look at me, bending time and space. You can thank me later when the pizza that you order on Thursday arrives on Wednesday afternoon. Miss Alli attempts to deal with the time paradox posed by a TAR clip show depicting events that happened months ago, but they’re new to us so we’re all exercised and outaged over assy-brat behavior now. So where’s…

  • Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    The New Blog In Town

    Announcing Innocents: A Blog, a webblog for Holy Innocents Episcopal Church. If you take a look at it, you’ll see that there are static content pages off of the “breadcrumbs” menu, corresponding to pages on the “main” church website. In the next few days, I will gradually be shifting all of the content over from there into Moveable Type (MT). And not using Front Page (MS). Ever again. And yes, I’ve been a-hankering to do this for a while. I’ve decided that the blog part of the site will be integral; categories will be used for blog-like entries for things…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Shakespeare Reduction Sauce

    Hmm. Reduced Shakespeare Company is coming to Elgin. Since we’ve screwed up on getting “Holy Grail” theater tickets, this might suffice. March 18 ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (abridged) Elgin Community College Visual and Performing Arts Center Elgin, Illinois Box Office: 847-622-0300