friday, february 13, 2004
changes, experiments, and trailing commas
well, the delicious links experiment didn’t work too well.
for one thing, i have too many links every day, and they overpower the real weblog. i have a low-threshold linklog and a high-threshold weblog. combining them is bad. and when it isn’t, there’s the medium-threshold cherries.
second, out of delicious context, the links aren’t worth as much. the “…and x others” is rather important - a lot of my links’ meaning is in what other users think of them. by looking at the “others” of several links, i can get an idea of who has common interests. i often refine my link descriptions and categories when i see somebody has a better idea of them than i do.
third, my little sister just said “[groan]! you have too many words [on your blog], wordo!”. by not including those delicious posts, i will significantly lower the words-to-pictures ratio, so i must. she knows better than i do about many things.
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tuesday, february 10, 2004
delicious & blosxom
i wish i was at etech. but there is high school, and sitting bored all day somehow trumps everything cool in the world. and now, for something completely different.
i’ve been using delicious for approximately four and a half months. i was in #joiito when tangra and _joshua were discussing it, before it existed. wheee.
at the moment, i have 500+ bookmarks in 60+ categories. each category has 5-25 bookmarks in it. each bookmark is in 1-3 categories. some of the bookmarks have short comments or quotes.
i want to include them in here. i don’t want them to replace “cherries” - it serves its own purpose, separate from delicious. sometimes they overlap, but cherry-links are more idiosyncratic…more significant…ok, so there’s no real criteria.
yeaaah, i don’t really like the idea of posting a link-dump as a post every day. i actively maintain my bookmarks (especially the categories); they’re usually in flux, but the blog posts would remain static.
i’m trying it anyway.
i’m using brett o’ connor’s nifty deloxom script.
update 2/12/04: there’s a follow-up post.
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thursday, december 04, 2003
this is longer than usual
i like messing with category schemes.
i reorganized my delicious categories today. i had them in a scheme similar to this blog’s, but it wasn’t working. it took me a while to consciously realize that entries and links are much different things. also, changing a link’s categories used to make it “new” again.
sometimes, creating categories reminds me of third-grade “sort the buttons!” exercises.
my class never did them, but my mom taught third grade for a while. i was in middle school and the buckets of miscellaneous keys/bottle caps/pen tops/small toys/etc still held my attention…
i like uncategorized things, too.
the average blosxom blog seems so much uglier than the average movabletype one. hmm.
it could be that movabletype’s templating system is better, or that its default templates are better, or that more people use it, or that it has a more design-oriented audience than blosxom. or that the majority of blogs i see use movabletype, so it sets the standard.
haha, i felt flattered the other day when i showed somebody a blosxom blog i’m working on & they asked if it was movabletype.
i think some of it is in the permanent/category/comment link configuration. blosxom blogs usually do the all-at-bottom thing, while movabletype blogs usually just put comment links at the bottom. the movabletype way makes more sense (category should be near title, so people quickly know what they’re reading about), so i changed my flavours/templates a little.
i think it looks worse. oh well. i still like blosxom more than i like movabletype.
i haven’t figured out yet why blosxom blogs (including mine) generally don’t use whitespace well.
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wednesday, october 08, 2003
pretty like pancake batter
i semi-blindly hacked at my usemodwiki installation for a few hours and now text almost looks like the rest of jeweledplatypus. you might need to refresh the stylesheet.
sort of inspired by css wiki zen garden.
oh, and in the process of messing with crap, i broke saving. and there’s a bunch of structure & styles i have to fix. and it’s not nearly valid. so. yeah.
but now it is time for some chemistry homework. wheee.
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thursday, july 04, 2002
fp
hilo everyone! yes, I know you’ve all been waiting on the edges of your seats for me to put this thing on the internet, so I decided to be nice and finish it. ok well it isn’t finished. and it isn’t on the internet yet. and I’m half asleep. hmm. but I’m making the news page and I wanted to write something. ok. I’m done. I’m going to go to sleep now. zzz.
