Soliciting opinions
Okay, look down and to your right. See that new thing? Where the blank space used to be. What do you think of it? This will hopefully make the blog a better place in a variety of ways.
There are always these little, trite things that I want to link to and comment on briefly, but that I never do because these posts of mine are usually these massive, overwrought and senselessly wordy things that I feel immensely invested in.
Basically when I write something long, I want it to stay there for a while and I don't want it preempted by some pointless and self-congratulatory bullshit [though aren't all entries exactly that] like that thing last week about the record label.
So what do you think? I've wanted to do something like this for a while now, but until today [a couple days ago really], my technology consultant and I didn't think the painfully limited Blogger suite could do it the way I wanted to.
It's not perfect--because of the script it uses, it takes a retardedly long time to show up--but it's been cobbled together and I'm generally satisfied.
posted by Luke @ 12:37 AM
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8 Comments:
Excellent!
Except, on my browser - the obscure Microsoft Internet Explorer, I'm sure you've heard of it - your entire right hand column block has been forced WAY down below everything, because it and/or your main post block have expanded in width or something and they don't sit side by side anymore. Just a heads up in case you're looking at it on another browser.
Ugh, that's unbelievably annoying . . . I might know the problem though . . .
Alright Don, how does that look to you?
And honestly, as an engineer it must annoy you endlessly when things don't work as they should. The only thing keeping you tied to IE, I must suspect, is a blissful ignorance of the alternative.
For your own sake and the sake of your children, try this: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Entire universities are telling their students to use it. It's safer, less intrusive and oh GOD the features. Once you've used tabbed browsing, you'll never go back.
And another thing, it renders my page correctly, paying heed to the standards set in place by the bodies that set such standards, another thing the engineer in you would appreciate. Microsoft plays by its own rules and hense you have a browser that shoves entire columns to the bottom of a page.
Hey look, IE might be ugly but the sex is good. Oh, wait, that's not applicable. But, with that last sentence, the next 10 minutes will get you googled about 50,000 times.
I hereby raise my right hand ad rse t tr frefx as s as ssbe. (Typing is hard with just your left hand, but I promised to try Firefox as soon as possible.)
Yes, your page has resolved, by the way. Whatever you did worked.
And by the way Luke, I am not an engineer but I play one on TV. Or, I am a failed engineering student but a successfull liberal arts student and a passable business person in the field of, well, advertidity. But a damn good dad and a genius when it really counts.
Hmmm, credit Mike with the engineering story.
So you're an ad man eh? Sexy.
My dad, Mike's uncle, is the engineer. I'm the almost-did-what-dad-did-but-defected-to-the-arts-at-the-last-possible-moment son.
Traitor.
Seriously, though, I've made a huge mistake. I think liberal arts really should've been the way to go. *sigh* Hindsight.
--Mike Sheffler
... turning to the 3-D map, we see an unmistakable cone of ignorance
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