No fancy post today, found this and it is pretty much going to absorb my life for a bit whilst I play with it.
Also, I finally set up google reader, so I will be changing the blogroll link format. Amongst other things, the whole left/right classification was getting a bit weak. Hah! No more ribbing me about calling you a lefty, Tao.
(Edit : Revised the colors slightly to try and make it easier to read - let me know if this helps, Anon)
About oh, 15 or so years ago, I had a funny conversation.
This cute little blond girl that hung out with us looked at me and said "You know, ever since I met you I have been trying to figure out what you mean when you say things. I just finally realized you actually just mean exactly what you say."
To which I replied "Well, yeah. Doesn't everyone?"
....
I have some odd personality quirks. One of these is that I do not use 'subtext'. I am at least to some extent aware that many other people do, but mostly I ignore it. This can create odd gaps in conversation as people get upset at something I say, and I am sitting reviewing the words I just used and thinking "huh?". This is often followed by some form of "Yeah, but you implied it".
I don't imply.
Also, I don't get offended. I notice when people are directly rude to me, and I may or may not tolerate it, but it has no emotional impact. If someone says something intelligent or useful to me in a rude way, I will usually just ignore the rude and focus on the useful.
Unfortunately, this can make it hard not to offend others. Me trying not to be offensive is like a color blind person trying not to use an ugly shade of red. But I do try.
The general point of this is that if I ever say something and you look at it and wonder if I am taking a subtle jab at you, the answer is NO. When someone annoys me, I am not subtle at all.
Turns out you can make things work just by poking at it until you get a result you like. A truly disturbing amount of the programming I do happens this way.
So I got the new layout more or less how I like it... but do not be surprised if small changes appear over the next couple days.
And I have absolutely NO idea why the post titles disappear when you hover over them. I mean, it should be one of the 'hover' colors, but I can't find which one.
(I just downloaded a template with everydamnthing and turned off what I didn't want. Works fine, but man, it has a color for everything)
(Edit : Before someone asks, the title has not a single thing to do with the Pres.)
I do have a few more things in the works, seeing as people actually seem to be reading what I write. Who'd'a thunk it?
But right now, I have much more important issue.
I want widgets on both sides of the blog! Also, why is this thing so dang narrow? Nobody runs their resolution that low anymore.
I know approximately nothing about html or templates or, or, or.... yeah.
So, off to search for a more technical type of knowledge today.
Given my natural OCD tendencies, three months from now I will know everything about html, and then never use it again.
I would like to be able to claim that I am starting a blog because I have something profound to say. Truth is, I just have been posting comments with my name on other people's blogs, and somebody with the same name said something dumb.
I don't like taking the blame for other people's stupidity; I have enough of my own, thank-you-very-much.
And may I just say the fact that this blog name was available disturbs me deeply.
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