A story about “Loot And Other Stories”
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
by Nadine Gordimer
“Loot†is prescient. “Karma†is fascinating, stories of return at a number of different levels, stories looking into the differences of people and yet…
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A story about “Foreigner (10th Anniversary Edition) (Foreigner Universe Books (Paperback))”
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
by C. J. Cherryh
Some odd muscle pain in my shoulder yesterday, but i made it to work. This book was on the “please take†table, so when i finally had to go home, I took it with me. I’d read “Inheritor†last year (B46), picked up at the used book store in the RDU airport. I realized I would be getting the back story here. The book cover claims, “A novel of First Contact,†so when it opened with the Phoenix crew overshooting the destination, i thought, “Ah, really deep back story,†then the novel jumps ahead to the landing on the planet. “Ah, yay, back story on—maybe the war,†but then it jumps ahead to … the same character in “Inheritor.â€
A bit of a surprise, but enjoyable. Certainly took my mind off the pain.
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Developing Grey-Cat Custom 1 Theme: beginning
Saturday, March 25th, 2006I’m starting with the
It’s a bit tough, though. For example, colors of the heading area were encoded in two different places in the
| pale | light |
| mid | dark |
Current issues or questions
* CSS buttons? http://wordpress.org/about/buttons/ ? Colophon page?
* sifr,
* Firefox uses the following, but Safari doesn’t:
font-family: “Apple Chancery”, “Lucidia Handwriting”, “Matura MT Script Capitals”, “Colonna MT”, cursive, fantasy;
* the “page” section doesn’t go to the end of the page (of the main index & archives template? Or driven by the length of the narrow links column?)Help from here: “clear:both”
* hr tags do nothing Turns out hr tags were defined to do nothing in style.css
* difference in the seam/seambox div in firefox & safari Gone. Whatever.
* why padding, margins etc don’t work to nest seam & seambox the way i want. I think the amount and the units have to be directly adjacent. Strange.
Issues I had with Golden Grey Theme
* the links all show up as “blogroll” instead of being sorted and displayed like they are in the default theme.
* No RSS Feed links
Template Notes
Change style.css to allow horizontal rules to display; remove them from the template.
First, index.php calls the header.
header.php
- http://wphooks.flatearth.org/hooks/wp_head/ So, for example, bbsuite uses this to insert its styles.
– CMT-OUT: definitions of a bunch of background images
– Christine’s date script
– http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/12/sifr-2.0-release-candidate-2
– opens body
— opens page (closes in footer.php)
— opens header
—- opens headerimg
—– h1 a: “name” & link to “home”
—– opens description, “description,” closes
—- close headerimg
— close header
— opens & closes nested seambox and seam.
index.php continues
— id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”
—- if have_posts
—–
—– open post (with id post number)
—— h2+a: “the_title”
—— small: “the_time” by “the_author”
—— open entry
——- “the_content”
—— close entry
—— p.metadata: permalink “the_category” | edit | comments
—– close post
—– open navigation
—— open & close alignright “next_posts_link”
—— open & close alignleft “previous_posts_link”
—– close navigation
—- else
—– display 404-text.php
—- end if
— close content/narrowcolumn
and then gets the sidebar & the footer
sidebar.php
footer.php
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404 Errors
Friday, March 24th, 2006The GUI interface for the GCP hosting solution would not take a relative path to the Curious page i created for 404 errors, but did take the complete URL. Sweet!
So far this month there have been 3857 404 errors, possibly a little down from the 4592 last month.
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Yay for the plug-ins
Friday, March 24th, 2006First, some of my curiosity would be sated if (1) i had access to mod_rewrite to reconfigure permalinks or (2) if the local version of webalyzer didn’t truncate on the question mark. But, since i can’t change either of those things, i’ve tried some WordPress plugins — and they will do wonderfully.
The problem with testing them on this blog is that this blog isn’t really written for anyone but me. Yet, in the past week or so where i’ve done little with my on-line life I can now get past the one meaningful line in the statslog that notes there have been 1k plus hits to this blog since the beginning of the month.
Search Meter suffers the most from this minimal use because all the searches are mine. The report is sufficient and straight forward.
bSuite’s reports are even better than i’d hoped because they reveal the
I’m not entirely sure what i’m looking at with bSuite’s “Top Stories,” broken into “Most Reads Per Day” (MRPD) and “Most Total Reads” (MTR). My belief is that this should show the difference between a popular piece that gets quickly taken up and spreads like wildfire, represented by the area under a sharp peak in a distribution, and story that is widely referenced and gets steady traffic, represented by the area under a long plateau. Here’s my results, story titles hidden to protect the pathetic:
Most Reads Per Day (MRPD)
A: Tot: 17, Avg: 2, Max: 3
B: Tot: 21, Avg: 2, Max: 5
C: Tot: 23, Avg: 2, Max: 4
Most Total Reads (MTR)
C: Tot: 23, Avg: 2, Max: 4
B: Tot: 21, Avg: 2, Max: 5
A: Tot: 17, Avg: 2, Max: 3
The MTR certainly is sorted in order of “Tot” — which i’ll assume is “total reads in reporting period.” I’d then expect Max to mean “maximum reads during a calendar day in the reporting period” — this would capture the peak. So MRPD should be sorted by Max — in order BCA — but it isn’t.
That’s curious. Still, i think i’m ready to distribute these plug-ins to the other blogs. Maybe i should experiment just a little with the simpletag syntax in preparation of playing with bsuggestive. The preview view is not encouraging…. And i do have “Suggest related entries in post (enables tag support)” selected in the Settings panel.
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Testing new plugins here before applying them to Paw Prints
Monday, March 13th, 2006Christine would probably prefer that i test them on the iMac at home. (Well, i haven’t got ssh tunneling working to the iMac yet. I could always use x windows and a browser on the debian box….) Still caution is for sissies, for use at work, and for folks who had enough sleep the night before!
Search Meter
http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/search-meter-wordpress-plugin/
Looks like it does pretty much what i want, except for the monthly roll. I guess i can just collect the data once a month.
bSuite
http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10900/
http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11032/
This person also works on a WPopac — a WordPress OPAC!!
Installed not quite sure how it’s going to work, though….
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It’s a new month
Sunday, March 5th, 2006My sister was visiting, so i spent very little time on-line, much less grey-cat.com.
Feb visitors: even with the odd separation of the IP address (once with the domain name, the other with the IP) bloglines visits more often than i do.
1 2500 11.42% bloglines.com 2 1002 4.58% more me@home 3 878 4.01% googlebot.com 4 842 3.85% msnbot.msn.com 5 805 3.68% kinja.com 6 599 2.74% me@home
Interesting search strings:
1 20 3.92% inurl:archives/000285.html 2 11 2.16% grey cat 3 10 1.96% melpomene 4 10 1.96% mystic star 5 9 1.76% mail art calls 6 9 1.76% wire crochet 7 7 1.37% altered rolodex cards 8 7 1.37% paw prints 9 5 0.98% paw slippers pattern 10 4 0.78% paw print font 11 4 0.78% wolf paw prints
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Why it’s taking me forever to finish consuming “Star Trek Enterprise – The Complete Fourth Season”
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Slowly getting episodes disks through Netflix. Finished the disk with episodes 85-88 on Feb 28. Yet another cliff hanger with “Babel One;†a nice homage to TOS. I have to admit that the long story lines with multiple story arcs carried across episodes—contemporary TV story-telling—is far more engaging than TOS. I really like Enterprise.
And “Babel One,†with yet another with Trip & Reed stuck in a dire straits, makes reference to a brief bit of dialogue from several seasons previous—just after Christine and i mutter about that dialogue—ah, the scriptwriters write for us!
I guess that’s why it’s gone now.
