Reinventing the Wheel - Addendum: Quiet but Busy
09 Sep 2003
Things are finally moving along with the Homegrown Blogging stuff. See http://www.geekicon.net/dev/ for a (partially) working example of all the technical gibberish I've been posting lately. I'm not sure if it perfectly validates as XHTML 1.0, and it's definitely a work in progress. We'll see how it goes. Note to MSIE users: it probably won't look very pretty in Internet Explorer. Maybe you should ponder Mozilla, which offers proper PNG graphic support. I've been using Firebird a lot lately, and have very very few complaints.
We make New Year's resolutions at the beginning of a new year. I'm going to make some blogging resolutions now, which will probably be just as successful as most people's New Year's ones.
Blogging Resolutions
- Stop apologizing for the inanity of my blog
Every personal blog is inane in some way or another at some point or another. It's a key element of personal blogging. Phrases like "my silly rantings," "my random thoughts" etc. and so on are not only getting cliché, but they're redundant in the first place.
- No longer maintain a blogroll on my main blog page
It's getting too big. I'm making a separate links/blogroll section. I don't want to pare down, because I want to get rid of links for reasons other than space issues. I also don't like the current set up, where I have a subset of links and another page with everything. It implies a partiality that really doesn't exist. So off they go. I know that it would be a controversial move for an alpha blogger, but since I'm not I can do whatever I want without sparking off flame wars about the linkedness of blogs, community, etc. and so on.
- In terms of design, I don't give a hoot about MSIE
Word to Microsoft: in terms of your web browser, you now officially suck in my book. I liked MSIE at one point. Then you pooped on me. So now I don't like it. I'm designing for Mozilla, and slowly but surely remembering to look at things in Opera. If my blog looks funny in MSIE, I don't care anymore, as long as it's mostly legible.
- In terms of content, I'm going to give myself more freedom of expression
I self-censor. At one point it wasn't a big deal because there were other outlets for that stuff. I don't feel like I have so many outlets at the moment. If something needs to be said and I don't want to put it in my main blog, I will find a place to put it, just so it gets put somewhere. It's getting better, but I still feel mentally constipated.
That's all I can think of for now. Not very exciting, I know. But there's not much else to report on except that my D&D monk of Ilmater got to second level by killing a few zombies off. Woo. Drat, I just fudged resolution #1.
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