Rants

Spring better show up here soon or heads are going to roll. 😡 Today was another day where the high temperature did not even get above the average low for this time of year. We are supposed to be at the 70 degree mark for crying out loud.

Smilies. I’ve got them and you don’t. They work on the main page, but I couldn’t get the things to work on the individual post pages. So you see them here, but on any other page you will get the plain ol’ ASCII verson. I couldn’t get them to work on the comment form either and they were supposed to have clickable entry too. I think it is because I use the dynamic publishing feature of MT. 🙁

Had a little issue with my blog’s database. I successfully exported my entries, so I had a good back-up. I deleted the db and made a new one. While I was at it I uploaded a fresh install of MT. Trouble started when I went to initialize Movable Type. I kept getting a database error. After monkeying with it for about an hour, in frustration I wrote a “help me” post on the MT Support Forums. So far no help. Doesn’t matter as I figured out the problem all on my own. The previous install was set to dynamically publish and to do so meant you had to add a bit of code to your htaccess file. I’m not sure why that code would interfere with creating tables in an SQL database, but when I removed it I could then initialize MT. Now that we are up and running, I’ll go back later and add the code back, so I can dynamically publish again.

Well, what do you think? Something is still screwed up with daily archive pages. In the monthly calendar that appears there the daily links all want to lead to a certain date in January that doesn’t exist. The category and monthly archives seem fine. Maybe I should just go back to individual entries as my primary archive and just chuck out the whole daily bit. Then again maybe it is time to export all my entries and do a fresh MT install. That is a lot more work, but what else do I have to do with my life? 🙂

I’ve got the layout of the new front page done, using Plan B. But In Mozilla at random times there appears a 1 pixel line underneath one of the rounded corner blocks. Ugh, like having an ink stain at the bottom of your dress shirt pocket. It is not there in IE!?! IE does wrap the Powered by Movable Type 3.121 to two lines, while Firefox fits it all on one. Oh, well, I’m sure the hate is there because I’m not smart enough to figure out just where I went wrong. It is probably simple too…

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I got rid of the 1 pixel ink stain. Don’t ask me why, but as soon as I removed one of the links and it didn’t matter which one, it was gone. Nine links, good, ten, bad. Wonder if 11 would be ok?
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I’ve been reading other blogs. Other blogs with writing of substance, filled with words with flair, unlike here. As is the norm with these blogs they like other blogs of the same ilk. Man I wish I wrote like that.

A couple I visited had these really cool rounded corner things going on. So seeing as I can’t write like that, I can at least look like that, right? Style is better than substance, right?

So I did a little google search for “css rounded corners” and poked into all the links that came back on page one. About a half dozen ways to do basically the same thing and everyone of them was kinda understandable, but they seemed just out of my reach. Not that I couldn’t have figured it out with certainty, but the question came down to, “Is this worth the effort?” Nah. Besides once something so cool becomes easily accessible to yucks like me, it is definitely not cool anymore.

But now I’ve gotten the bug to monkey with the look here, this one is getting tired, after all it has had this look for almost a month now…maybe I should do RetroWeb. All gray mottled background with bright lime green bullets. Maybe I’ll do it in one big table. Maybe frames.