jeweled platypus

 

monday, january 31, 2005
Dead blog fads

Things I pruned from Jeweled Platypus today:

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saturday, august 07, 2004
porque seraaa que no te puedo sacaaar

well. the color scheme has changed a bit. hopefully, it looks better & easier to read. and stuff.

let’s see.
i started to make this thing last april.
i put it up at geocities. the first version (“and then the world exploded”; adobe pagemill & awkward html; copy-paste) was finished last july.
i was hosted at disappointedidealist starting in december. the second version (“giraffe girl strikes again”; html & some awkward css; blogger) was finished in february.
hopefully, maybe, i’m getting icdsoft.com hosting in august sometime. this third version (“a jeweled platypus”; xhtml transitional & css; blosxom) will be finished by the end of july.

how neatly it fits into three parts. maybe, the fourth will be where i redo it with php and figure out a better domain name. maybe adding a wikieditish blosxom and a link thingy…

hm. i need a book to read. foucault’s pendulum was next, but it’s at mom’s house. poo.

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wheee

new blogging system thingy: blosxom! it is turning out to be quite cool. easy templating, easy categories, blah blah blah. cool.

only thing i don’t like is that i can’t edit old files easily…they pop to the top of the blog…oh well. i’m in the process of integrating old blogger posts…i think they’re about halfway done. february and before are in blog limbo until i put them into blosxom format. whee!

the way this thingy does things is nice: if i’m somewhere else i can just ssh in and zap open vim or something, type, and save it to the right directory. or i could set up the email interface thing. or i could ftp things. and the next version might have a wiki sort of capability. much cool!

the only icky bit is that getting an archive with everything in all the categories, arranged by date doesn’t seem possible. it just cuts off after 20 or whatever i set it for. which is good for my purposes, i guess. i like the idea that things disappear eventually. i think. it’s more natural. or something.

and all the blog pages aren’t actually on dreamyshade.disappointedidealist.com… they’re on my computer, giraffegirl.dyndns.org, because it’s just cooler (and easier) this way. so i’m using this this weird frame thing. oh well.

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thursday, april 01, 2004
well it’s one two three four

the design was in for some change. i’ve been gradually realizing things: it was too cramped, the right-align wasn’t working, even the “platypus” motif was tired…

yes, waferbaby to the rescue! everyone knows waferbaby has the best xhtml/css evarrr, so i borrowed a few ideas.

update 4/2/04: ;) you can still see jeweledbaby if you append .baby instead of .html to /news/ urls - for example, this post and the index page.

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tuesday, february 24, 2004
“whatever floats your boat” indeed

yes, jeweled platypus is grey for grey tuesday.

also, you can download the grey album from here: grey.jeweledplatypus.org.

update 2/24/04: well, i used too much bandwidth, and i can’t host it anymore. see the grey tuesday site for tons of other places to get it.

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