Archive for March, 2009
hopefully this won’t be there for long. in the field beside the YMCA.
I’ve been messing around with my blog as a hub of stuff, but think I’ve finally got it working the way I have in mind. I use asides for more-than-twitter but less-than-blog-post entries. I now have delicious.com exporting daily linkdumps into a Links category. Neither of these 2 things show up on the front page of the blog, nor in the RSS feed. But they ARE archived on the blog, and are searchable. Persistent archive of stuff, without the noise and ugly mess. I’m using Advanced Category Excluder to prevent the 2 categories (asides and links) from showing up on the front page and main feed – although they still have their own feeds through the category system.
Update: I decided to put the delicious.com daily link posts into the RSS feed after all, but not on the front page. Not sure if I’ll leave it that way or not…
the bow river curves around the community of Bowness, before heading southeast into downtown calgary
a brilliant blue sky over calgary, hopefully the end of the latest deep freeze.
I’ve switched themes on my blog. Again. And, once more, I just yanked an off-the-shelf theme and slightly tweaked the CSS to make it do what I want.
Before (left), using the excellent Journalist theme, and after (right) using the Magazine Basic theme:
They’re both good, so why switch? I was messing around with Magazine Basic for a blog at the Teaching & Learning Centre, where we needed a more magazine or newspaper feel to it. And was struck by how much I liked the theme. I like that it’s very clean, but polished. It only shows excerpts for the last few articles on the front page, and will show small versions of images if they’re available for a post. I like that it’s not purely river-of-posts – there’s no “Older Posts” link on the front page. Once things trickle off the front, they’re accessed via the category and tag pages. No humans use the “Older Posts” stuff, and googlebot has a full index of the site, so that design was redundant clutter anyway. I like that full posts aren’t on the front page – that means more posts are visible at a glance, and most people won’t even notice because they’re coming from Google (directly to a post anyway) or RSS.
I’ll give it a try for awhile. But so far, I’m really liking it.
Just switched themes. Again. Now using Magazine Basic, and really liking the clean and polished layout.
presenting at the Teaching & Learning Centre, The University of Calgary on March 11 2009
the morning bus ride, surprisingly not sardine-can full. perhaps many chose not to brave the -38˚C windchill to wait for the bus…
it plunged back down to -25˚C, with high humidity, turning the Bow River into a freezing steam factory.
grafitti on a GoC grain transport car