Why did you say six months?
He's coming.
This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?
Why did you say five minutes?
Thursday, August 30
Ceci N'est Pas Une Post
Testing, testing...
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Okay, I don't know if it's supposed to do this, but I have my fonts rather large (set that way by default in by FF). Unless I scroll the font down to a very small size - it runs off the "post column" loses the very far right characters. There is not an issue with the left sidebar overlapping the post column only with the writing running off the right side.
Oh, guess I should say I use Trebuchet MS in size 24 as my default font... yeah I hate looking at teeny print (well, I can't see teeny print... so it's my only option. *grin*)
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, August 31 2007 05:56 AM (rVIv9)
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Looks good, but the logout button in the upper right of the header is showing as the little box with an X. So when will we mere mortals
be able to use all of this theme builder goodness?
Posted by: Raging Tachikoma at Friday, August 31 2007 11:41 AM (9Pd4L)
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Teresa - I'll look into that. It works fine up to 20 point or so, and then suddenly goes plooie.
RT - thanks for the tip. Firefox (which is where I spend most of my time) doesn't show placeholders for missing images, so I hadn't noticed.
The theme builder is installed and just needs a few tweaks before it goes live, so definitely in the next day or two.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 31 2007 12:44 PM (PiXy!)
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Now that's interesting. Recent comments should be within the sidebar and thus hidden with the current settings for my individual entry pages, but aren't. I've seen something similar happening on Chizumatic, which has the same setup. Okay, shall fix.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 31 2007 12:45 PM (PiXy!)
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Wednesday, August 29
Phase Of The Moon Bug
The problem with my Western Digital drive turns out to be heat sensitive: It acts up when it gets cold. Because when it gets cold, my heating kicks in (actually a reverse-cycle air conditioner) and the voltage dips for a moment. The baby power supply that came with the drive doesn't have enough smoothing to cope with that, and the drive goes bye-bye. The weather has warmed up over the last week or so, and I've stopped having problems.
Of course, in a couple of months I'm going to want to run the air conditioning the other way, so before then I'm going to invest in a small UPS.
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I bought a UPS a couple of years ago on a whim. It has saved my bacon any number of times. Good choice!
Posted by: GM Roper at Thursday, August 30 2007 11:24 AM (S60yG)
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Test comment. Commenty comment. Comment comment...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, August 30 2007 11:26 AM (PiXy!)
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If a reverse-cycle air conditioner describes what I think it describes, how do they keep the coils outside from freezing over when the temperature outside is already near freezing? I don't think I've ever seen one.
Posted by: Will at Saturday, September 01 2007 06:58 AM (SOx9v)
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What is this "freezing" of which you speak?
I'm guessing that the reason you haven't seen them is that they don't sell them where the temperature gets that low.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, September 02 2007 05:18 PM (PiXy!)
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Monday, August 27
Potelated
Oh man. No question, Potemayo is the pick of the current season.
I worried after the first episode that the joke would get tired. But Potemayo turns out to be
so not the one-joke series.
Highly recommended.
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How many half-hour eps of it have you seen so far? (It's one of those two-15-minute-eps-released-in-half-an-hour shows, like Ninja Nonsense, which is why I qualify it that way.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 27 2007 02:32 AM (+rSRq)
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I've seen up to episode 8.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, August 27 2007 10:59 AM (PiXy!)
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Ah, Guchuko's great chestnut chase. I saw frame grabs from that episode and the chase scene looked like it was wonderful.
But the picture of two kids face down in the snow surrounded by blood bothered me a bit. Please, tell me that Guchuko didn't kill them.
Itty bitty legs notwithstanding, it looks as if Guchuko is extremely strong. How else could she move so fast, let alone bouncing up to the tops of houses? How else could she haul the carcass of a cow into Kyo's yard to leave it as a gift?
One time I compared Guchuko to a feral cat. I'm beginning to get the impression that's a lot more accurate than I had realized. She really does seem to like Kyo, but she's not ready to become domesticated.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 27 2007 11:33 AM (+rSRq)
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And the doughnut-and-weighted-basket trap Kyo's mother set had me giggling for a long time. Even if Guchuko had gotten trapped inside it, she'd have shredded that basket with her axe. (And then taped it all back together again.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 27 2007 11:34 AM (+rSRq)
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Guchuko "killed" about half of Kyo's classmates, but they don't stay dead.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, August 27 2007 11:56 AM (PiXy!)
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I found a video clip of the snowball fight, including Guchuko's involvement. Looks like she was doing flying kicks, not axe chops. It's amazing something that small can be that dangerous.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 27 2007 11:58 AM (+rSRq)
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Sunday, August 26
Switchomatic!
A quick demo of the new layouts and automatically generated banners and footers.
Clicky:
The annoying thing about the theme switcher is that it only works in Internet Explorer in strict mode, and only works in Firefox and Safari in quirks mode. (Opera works either way.) The themes themselves work fine in any browser in either mode, but the Javascript switcher exposes some interesting issues.
Actually, there's one Javascript function required to make the themes work if you have a footer; I'll have to make sure that works in strict mode.
Now I just need to sleep for about twelve hours and then bundle everything up and install it.
Update: Bah. The footer controller doesn't work in strict mode. The banner switcher works fine, but you'd expect it to.
Bumped and updated: Now works in strict mode in Mozilla and Safari. Yay! (I was doing something dumb.)
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Saturday, August 25
Not The Way To Do It
Ubuntu Studio is a new Linux distro, based on Ubuntu and packaged with a whole suite of audio and video editing applications. This is great, because while some of these applications are very powerful, they are also a huge pain in the arse to install.
What's not so great is that their web site has been down for the past two weeks, and possibly longer.
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Wrapping Up
Tick - autocrop function works. (This does some reasonably intelligent scaling and cropping of the source image for your banners and footers, rather than just stretching them to fit.)
Tick - new image macro form. (Banners, footers, lolcats, motivators, and simple captions currently.)
Just a few more boxes to tick off and I can get this whole huge bundle of stuff out the door. Look for it very soon.
Tick - applets work. You can create an applet and share it with other meenuvians.
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Friday, August 24
The Bunny Returns
I turned off my old Firewire external drive to see if the power supply is compatible with the flaky Western Digital drive. It isn't. So I turned it back on, and it went
skwik skwik skwik skwik skwik skwik skiwk.Bah.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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We have a radio show here in the States called Car Talk (been on for like 20 years) people call in and explain their car troubles to these guys. Often they end up immitating the noises the car makes when it's having touble...
which is why I read this and started laughing... sorry. It was the skwik, skwik, skwik, that got me. *grin*
Posted by: Teresa at Saturday, August 25 2007 12:09 AM (rVIv9)
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Code Speaks
I think this line is hungry:
m.rect((r,0,w-r,r),color='white',opacity=100)
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Well, the line might be hungry... but it gives me a headache. Heh.
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, August 24 2007 12:41 AM (rVIv9)
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It's a step in creating a rounded-corner mask. This line is drawing a rectangle with the co-ordinates (r,0)-(w-r,r), where r is the radius of the rounded corner and w is the width of the original image.
Just amused me that the line says
rowrr.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 24 2007 03:47 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Kean at Friday, August 24 2007 10:42 PM (+x+G7)
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I'd been programming for 16 hours straight at that point, so yeah.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, August 25 2007 12:33 AM (PiXy!)
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It just needs fed some int's and it'll quit growling. But feed it a real, and it'll get indigestion.
Posted by: Boviate at Monday, August 27 2007 01:15 PM (VzovN)
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Thursday, August 23
Dear Microsoft IE Team
Fire, die in a, likewise.
Update: Okay, I'll withdraw that. You can just get unpleasant blisters in your sensitive parts.
Two things in your favour: While zoom mode breaks automatic reflow, turning off zoom makes it work again. Second, the doctype
HTML PUBLIC "IE-IS-A-COW" works to turn off quirks mode.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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One wishes they were very uncomfortable all the time. They seem to delight in creating messes for people the world over and calling it a feature.
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, August 24 2007 12:43 AM (rVIv9)
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Got You, You Bastard
CSS remains as retarded as ever, but I've managed to more-or-less defeat it.
The new layouts will break under certain specific circumstances:
- You are using a footer, and
- You are doing custom DOM manipulation with Javascript (and fail to call the provided function to update the layout) or
- You modify the CSS to be variable rather than fixed width and the user resizes the browser window. (I can fix this one.)
Also, if you are using a layout with two-column content, the second content column must come after the first one in your template. Sidebars can be generated before, after, or between the content, but content columns must be in the order they are to be shown, left-to-right.
Apart from that, I think they work pretty well. I'll have to test them some more and maybe add a couple of event handlers; I'll post the results tonight so you can see them.
I'm not going to make tomorrow's meeting now, since I still have to install the whole thing and parameterise the CSS, but there are no more roadblocks. There can't possibly be; there's no more
road.
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Sounds like a nearly impossible nut has been cracked. Good for you!
Sometimes I wish I knew more about CSS - then I realize I don't have time for it. If I knew something, I'd redo my site (well, likely not because I don't have the time for that either *grin*).
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, August 24 2007 12:51 AM (rVIv9)
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