03.10.01

No, really, I mean it this time.

Posted in General at 2 pm

Yes, I’ve just spent another half hour tweaking this thing. I was getting some weird run on stuff in IE with tons of extra space at the bottom of the window for no apparent reason. I figured it was something in the HTML so I started validating it against 4.0 Transitional. Once I got mostly through it (Still have backgrounds set with the BACKGROUND tag rather than the Style tag, gotta get rid of the MARGINX commands in the body) the spacing issue resolved itself.

Good for now. I’ve removed the table borders, but I still want to work on the side bar and the image map, etc. etc. Okay now I’m really stopping.

About 4 Hours Total

Posted in General at 1 pm

It’s taken me about four hours to get this all set up. I’m sure I could spend another 8 just looking through all the templates, and another few hours getting all the navigation and arcives in place. But this will do for now.

Of course there’s a few things I’m already seeing that I’d like to change. It’s little stuff, like popping out an RSS file and a Netscape My Sidebar file. (Still kept the documentation that they sent out to people who were running feeds to the old my.netscape.com portal. That was pretty cool and I’d like to do something similar still. It’s just a matter of getting this GreyMatter to open up and reveal it’s secrets to me, Perl wise.

Oh and a copy of the entries ought to land in my mail box. That was a life saver when I was working on the original script that I used for Notes. Perhaps this system will be robust enough for me to not have to worry about that. Then again, I worry about everything.

Next time I’ll add some more personal notes. After all this is supposed to be a journal about a person, not about the journal.

Quite New

Posted in General at 1 pm

I told you I was changing this thing. Powered with a new engine, and now with a new look, I present Dwelling: Chasing My Own Tale.

This is the latest development in my journaling exercise. I’m not laying any permanent bets on this system, but we’ll see how it works out. So far the system is pretty damn robust. My JPEGs that I’ve used on the template are enormous, The Archives are nowhere near working, and I haven’t event tried the layout in any other browsers yet. Hang in there, we’ll get this ball rolling.

(This entry will stay at the top of this page for a few weeks until my regular visitors have all come on over to the new URL. New entries start below.)

03.08.01

Testing

Posted in General at 1 pm

Test