Blogs

I'm revising my site. New theme. New hosting arrangements.

I need to start adding my portfolio material. I also want to eat my own dog food. I'll use the "newblog" module, which will oblige me to develop a migration path from Drupal's core blog module.

Today I succeeded in raising the YSlow score of my site quite a bit. The home page reliably earns a "C" grade because I don't use a content distribution network and I link to many different sites, some of which don't use HTTP expires headers or ETags. On pages where all the content comes from my site only, the score is a high B or even an A.

The current theme is vaguely what I have in mind, but too much stuff in indented. I want to experiment with different margins and indentations on the right sidebar. The home page main content area has good indentation, but I don't want it to appear on every node page too. All the title styles have gone away, and they need to come back.

However, today is just not the day to finish this job. I still have to send proposals to two potential clients. I'll get back to this site tomorrow or the next day.

The phone lines into my building are draped along the side wall in the alley. They're at easy reach. They've been cut at least once in the last five years. Back then the company may have been SBC or Ameritech.

When the lines were repaired after being cut, the line's placement wasn't changed. Some duct tape was applied but that's all.

Whenever it rains or gusts, the DSL will be interrupted. Sometimes it becomes a total service failure for a few hours.

When I phone them to report the problem, the operator always sets up an in home service call. I'm also told that I'll be responsible for any repairs inside my apartment. How inconvenient when the problem is chronic, persistent and outside!

One wonders what it takes for the phone company to recognize the problem and fix it.

And did she win her phalanx of homosexuals at a cake walk?

It won the Chicago 1893 World Columbian Exhibition Award for
Uniformity of Granulation.

I heard Jasmyne Cannick on the radio yesterday, and frankly she's the only person I've heard talk sense on the issues. Her LA Times op-ed is the basis of her interview on Talk of the Nation.

McCool showed me this animation series.