Movable Josh
Switching over to Movable Type, which replaces the handrolled Python code I worked on, and which I'm abandoning for a while. Or forever. Whichever. The old stuff is here, on the other end of my cable modem.
[ josh at 06:23 PM
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Electric Lib
Now Libby has one of these things. Have fun, Lib.
[ josh at 01:43 PM
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Back from the swamp
Disneyworld is the strangest place I've probably ever visited. What it lacks in overstimulation it makes up for in artifice. Everything is happy, and the music and prose blasted everywhere from invisible omnidirectional speakers is relentlessly upbeat, inspirational and mindless like a Bill Clinton speech or an 8th grade essay extolling the virtues of the wonderful, dynamic state of South Dakota. Except that you can buy things everywhere. The whole place is built on what was once swamp, and the abundance of land is a bit scary to the unsuspecting semiurban New Englander.
It was crowded, said the vendors, even by Disney standards. The rides were mostly great. The music was mostly teen pop, and one would assume that Disneyworld was a training ground for the manufactured stars of tomorrow. The occasional bit of classical choir or flamenco dancing/guitar was pretty amazing, and even the stuff I found distasteful was performed more than competently. These guys are pros.
Animatronics were well done if silly. The mind boggles at the scale and thoroughness of the show. It was really a pretty good time.
[ josh at 12:33 PM
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Xmas
We're off super early tomorrow morning to Logan, and thence to Disney. No posts, mostly on principle, until I return.
[ josh at 11:48 AM
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Leaves
I spent the whole day mowing the unraked leaves into piles of damp confetti and then shoving the short piles into skinny paper lawn bags. They won't pick the leaves up until Spring, so the leaves will have to sit in a brave column on the back patio and hopefully not provide a warm winter haven for stinky vermin.
[ josh at 06:31 PM
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A letter from IE
There's not a whole lot in the IE window that doesn't also appear in the Konqueror windows. Alas. This is the last post to the netway-hosted blog.
[ josh at 01:50 PM
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CSS
While I'm busy bitching about raw, HTML-related things, what's this crap that is CSS? CSS stands fro Cascading Style Sheets, and they're supposed to facilitate formatting web pages. The problem is that while they try to provide control over things like fonts and layout, they're basically just as fickle as HTML ever was, so you end up turning a bunch of knobs that may or may not change anything; with HTML, at least you know that there are only a few, coarse things you can really control anyway. I even have a book about this stuff and it doesn't seem to help much. Complain, complain, complain.
[ josh at 08:48 AM
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Why won't it format consistently?
Yeah, so all the clever HTML tweaking I've done in my life usually ends up being a back and forth battle between the text editor and the browser. But MT manages to format posts differently even though they're rendered from the same template. I'm obviously baffled.
What differs, what baffles me, is the spacing after paragraphs. Update: the "Convert Line Endings" box was checked. Unchecking it causes the magic to go away. Cool. But updating anything in this crazy interface is unimaginably slow. If I could use this all locally (like on the local installation I had running, and still have running, on this little machine), and if I could do so from within Emacs, then I'd be pretty happy. Formatting (mostly) done, interface speed not.
[ josh at 09:10 PM
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Tool
Before starting regular use of Movable Type (I had been spelling it Moveable; not sure which is right) I need to find something other than a web browser to post with. Typing in a browser isn't so impossible, but they aren't good typing tools.
I've tried digging around for Blogger API and Metaweblog API tools. There are a couple out there, including one written in wxPython, but of course now that I need one I can't find it. Keep looking...
[ josh at 08:52 PM
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Entering stuff from home...
The old site is here. I'm almost done updating it.
[ josh at 11:27 PM
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Configured at last
Not even remotely configured, but the title sounds good. At any rate, I managed to hack the enormous pile of Perl that is Moveable Type so that <p> tags don't get stuck around all the posts; makes formatting easier.
Off we go...
[ josh at 10:14 PM
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