april 2006
april 23 2006 13:29 pdt sick. but it's not raining, for a change. we're cleaning house a little because lala is coming to visit and spend the night. everyone is busy, and the cat is frantic with wanting to get into the attic. i can't shake the feeling that there is something i need to be doing, but i can't remember what.
april 9 2006 11:18 pdt wow, twice in one week- i must be famous. on thursday, the article about mit stealing my cannon went up on the front page of slashdot, and just last night, xeni posted one of my comments on the front page of boingboing!
april 8 2006 20:33 pdt now this is just cool.
april 8 2006 19:46 pdt i'm not sure yet if this is a well-known problem that i just rediscovered, or if i'm finding new bugs, but i wasted the last hour trying to troubleshoot a form for my dad's campaign website before realizing that the text-box field was breaking the edit page. this is why i work on my own site almost exclusively in a text editor, on the raw html pages- less complexity, easier to figure out why stuff is wrong. when the editor itself is introducing code into the html of your page, it suddenly becomes pretty damn hard to make anything look the way you want it to.
april 3 2006 00:26 pdt just spent the last 45 minutes tweaking layouts by one pixel at a time to make stuff look (nearly) the same in ie5/win, ie6/win, mozilla/win, and mozilla/linux. i'm sure everything looks broken on a mac, but since i don't have a mac test environment, there's absolutely nothing i can do about it.
april 2 2006 22:03 pdt raining like crazy, again. 100 things on my mind, and i'm trying not to think too hard about any of them.
april 1 2006 21:29 pst no, this is not an april fool's post. spent all day today working on dad's website for his run for judge, and it's really starting to look like it's ready for primetime. we're using wordpress and i've learned quite a bit over the last month or two about how wp is supposed to work. the setup is easy, the theme installs are easy, and the theme customizations are fairly simple too, at least for the themes that i've been able to experiment with. there is only one css file included with most themes, which means you only have one set of layout code to mess around with. the php is straightforward if you have any experience with php/sql-based content management wrappers. sometimes the site runs a bit slow, but i'm not sure if that is a limitation of the design or of the hosting provider. we haven't had any real traffic hit the site yet, except for me and dad reloading pages to make sure the images display properly, so there hasn't been any real stress testing to speak of yet.
but google has found the site, which means other spiders will soon be finding it as well. this lends weight to my theory that if you have your name in the title of your index.html, it vastly increases the pagerank of your page w/r/t searches including your name. i saw the same kind of immediate result when i changed the title of my home page.
mom says that they have sent out a few hundred fliers via snailmail with the website url on them. so, if people read and are curious, we should start seeing a spike in hits over the next week or so. i have to admit i'm very curious to see what people think.