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A little summer pruning

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I’ve trimmed away a few links from the My Links section of the sidebar. Gone are:

Fitocracy. I simply never use this site anymore.
LinkedIn. For now I have decided to keep the more business side of things off this website, since it is more focused on personal ramblings.
Nike+. I still use this site regularly but the revamp bafflingly requires an account to view anyone’s profile. So much for sharing!

Facebook and Google+ remain once-every-six-months affairs for me and Smashwords should have more to it soon™. I may start using Twitter more. Or not. MyFitnessPal I login to everyday and today is my 165th day in a row. Woo for consistency.

Also it is very warm sitting here today. I miss my fan.

An audacious April 1st promise

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And it’s not even an April Fool’s joke! (I am fond of the 8-bit Google Maps, myself)

After several false starts in March I am boldly planning on posting something to the blog every day for the rest of the year. That would be nine months in all or 274 posts, assuming I meet the bare minimum.

Some of the posts will be fluff but I shall endeavor to say something worthwhile as much as possible.

Excelsior!

Back on the bandwagon

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Yes, I am back on the bandwagon again, the bandwagon being ‘writing something on the blog every day no matter what’. As always, this means some days will be what one might call content-light, while others will be a little meatier. I think I am dangerously close to mixing metaphors here.

We’ll see if I can stick to this tomorrow!

New masthead, now with more picture

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I finally got off my figurative butt and inserted a graphic as part of the masthead for the blog. As of this writing it is a photo I took at Buntzen Lake during a hike in January. I am planning on rotating through a number of images. I’ll probably jazz up the site a bit more in the coming weeks, though I am undecided on how best to do this. I can’t decide between animated gifs or auto-playing midi files. If only the <BLINK> tag was still supported.

In case the image mentioned above isn’t the current one, here it is below (click for full-size):

Tweaked, part 2

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A few tweaks to the current site design:

  • moved Search from the header to the sidebar
  • changed the background to a slate blue-gray kinda thing (will probably play with it some more)
  • made the site name match other links, color-wise
  • broke lots of stuff while experimenting but fixed everything back up

I will be restoring the writing exercises shortly and continue to fine-tune. To the average person this is about as exciting as watching a pie-eating contest where no pies are delivered for consumption but to me it’s like a pie-eating contest where one of those huge dump trucks from a strip mine shows up with 500 metric tonnes of pie.

/geek

I tweak because I can (site update)

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I’ve made some changes to the site. Here they are. Woo.

  • a new theme: Blocks2
  • added jQuery Colorbox to the photo galleries (this makes the photos pop-up all pretty-like)
  • removed a bunch of links from the sidebar, moved some to the Books etc. page and re-ordered others
  • removed the Sections, uh, section. The Sections links are now only at the top of the page. Redundancy is redundant.
  • killed the ‘jogging’ tag as it is now its own category

The biggest change is the complete removal of all of my writing. I’ve decided to take a different approach for now and will only be making a few selections available on the site, though all of the writing exercises will be back, since they are freely viewable on the Martian Cartel forums. I haven’t modified the theme yet but will be tweaking the colors and perhaps adding a graphic at the top of the site.

My inane posts are, of course, untouched.