I am amazed about the reaction (and the press coverage) of the Ten Commandments monument being moved. Are some religious people really this silly, or is there something in the Alabama water?
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And I thought table layouts were tough! How are we meant to make a basic two column layout in
CSS? This really should be easier. Here’s what I came up with, using position:relative on the background and position: absolute on the menu.
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A review of what Miwa and I were up to during Obon week.
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Miwa and I have been doing some more electronic dictionary (denshi jisho) research, and we think that the best two are the Sharp PW-9800 and PW-9700, because of the screen clarity and size. We’re leaning towards the PW-9700.
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I’m changing the
HTML and
MT tags in the templates now. Here’s the changes I’ve done in preparation of my
CSS redesign
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We’re going to buy a new electronic Japanese-English dictionary (denshi jisho).
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Why isn’t the address tag inline? Because it’s block I can’t use it in a definition list.
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Nothing to see here, move along……
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I’ve been trying to set up non-crufty URLs, and had some problems. Then I found the “remove_html” option and worked out how to use MTKeyValues to strip
HTML from the page title and improve
URL readability respectively. I also realised that the lang=”” attribute isn’t for computer languages.
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I’m slowly setting up MovableType the way I want it. I’ve been playing with non-crufty URLs, but have two problems; keeping the dirified individual story
URL short while the title is long, and having
HTML in the header but not in the page title.
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I was interested to see Halo get a mention on the BBC. As per usual the link to the original source isn’t obvious (why not link the Red vs Blue text, instead of putting the link in an obscure side-box,…
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Typhoon #10 is approaching, and looks like it’ll be a good one. So far there have been some record rainfalls down in Kyūshū・九州, I think as much as a third of the year’s rainfall in one day. With +9 meter…
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I’m slowly getting
MT set up the way I want. I want to do as much configuration as possible before I start the design process. Today’s fun has been in checking out plugins. But first, a recap… Yesterday I changed…
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I’ve decided to switch from numerical to date+title URLs for individual pages. This should make archives more accessible, and easier to ‘
URL-hack’. I also made a mistake when importing, and presently it looks like I’ve posted twice as many stories…
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I’ve been spending a lot of time at the beach recently. The weather has been very hot and humid, so it’s been perfect for snorkeling. Miwa and I went down to the south of Shima-gun today and snorkeled just past…
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Yay - I finally have something to use Kung-log with! Apart from finally changing from Geeklog to MovableType, nothing much has happened. The big news is that tsuyu??? has finally ended, although despite the official proclamation handed down from on…
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Some notes on importing old Geeklog entries into MovableType, supplementing the online
MT documentation
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