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It only took 9 years, but I finally updated my whole site to use a static generator tool.In the meantime, Webby has been discontinued, and Jekyll has become the dominanttool of choice. It took a little while, but I’m happy to feel full in control of things again.In the process of converting I’ve fixed a...

I meant to post about this a long time ago, but when Blogger discontinued publishing via FTP, I hit some snags trying to create a new setupfor my blog and website. If you see this, then I guess I’ve got it working now; the blog is hosted by Google, and the non-blog parts of thesite...

Instead of working on the conversion of the blog to Webby, I spent much of the day playing withjQuery and JavaScript. A good portion was mostly wasted time attempting to make the loading of thesyntax-highlighting scripts more dynamic. While this ultimately failed, it did get me to re-learn a lot of JavaScript and jQuery.Rather than...

So, I stayed up way too late last night uploading version after version of this website. I updated the version of thesyntax-highlighter I used on the one code sample I’ve posted. Nothing specialthere, but the fall-back when Javascript isn’t enabled is nicer, as it’s a pre-tag, instead of a text-area like before.I fixed all the...

Despite the utter wasteland that is this blog, I’ve decided to start posting to yet another place on the internet:Twitter. The theory goes that if you’re interested in knowing the minutiae of my life, you can follow meon Twitter (or subscribe to my Twitter feed or what have you). I, knowing that everyone looking at...

Today, I found the first reference to my name in my Bloglines search feed. Stefano Demiliani apparently liked my tip on seeing rel="nofollow". I guess I need to keep posting useful stuff if I want to become an active member of the blogosphere...

I recently sent in a question to Blogger support about my Delete Comment icons not showing up, because they'd replaced the code that put in an image tag from the template with a span filled with a non-breaking space. As usual, after I ask for help, I figured it out myself. It turns out you...

After a bit of looking and playing for another method, I decided to give up and use my first CSS-hack for IE. Ugh. Basically, IE doesn't support position: fixed, so instead of falling back to position: absolute, it falls back to position:static, placing my navigation bar at the bottom of the page, as that's where...

Lot's of little changes involved in the redesign. The primary goal was a color change: the red on blue of the "Wheat" design (look for the alternate style-sheet of that name to see it, though some template changes on the Blog have also occurred). Unfortunately, the blue for links I liked so much was a...

Google's indexing of this site at it's new location has been interesting. For a while, only the main page was indexed. Now it seems like only the next level deeper is indexed (you can see the indexed files by searching for '*' in the Google search bar on the side of the page). Since that...

So, I gave all my posts real titles (titles in the Atom feed had been the first 20 characters of a post). Not sure if that's what did it, but Blog Lines now recognizes my blog just fine. The RSS portlet panel extension has bugs that someone has posted fixes for. The My Yahoo RSS...

So, first I discover that Blogger supports Atom feeds (rather than RSS). Cool. Most readers support it, or so they say. However, I'm having trouble with various readers I want to use. SharpReader works fine, but I'm not always on Windows, and I don't really want another program. The Mozilla extension I mentioned earlier, however,...

Ok, so the Archive is done now too. I've deleted some old posts (just stupid ones with results from random internet quizzes: too much table hell to fix). You'd be surprised how much trouble ampersands in URL's can be when trying to validate your blog entries. All done now.With all the trouble I've gone through...

Well, if you've visited before, you'll notice that my Blog is now integrated with the rest of my website. It's also valid XHTML (well, at least as valid as the rest of the site; Some disagree). Obviously, if I switch to a system allowing comments, maintaining validity will be harder...The Archive still has to be...

AltaVista: Image Search results for: war on drugs(Yes, I'm having fun going through the logs for my webpage)I am the number one image search for War on Drugs on AtlaVista. Pretty damn sweet.

Recherche Google: airsickSomebody find a copy of the Charlie Canola story on my site after going through 9 other pages of matches for "airsick" How sad is that?

And, with a template change, my blog even works again. Yay!

Oh hey. I have a Blog. Whaddyaknow. Maybe I just update once in a while. Eh, oh well.

Testing this out. Yes Ryan and Jason, I'm just being a sheep following in your leads . . .