In the gap in between two shows, after posting the last blog, I downloaded Graffiti CMS 1.2 and upgraded this site. Using the shared WiFi in the theatre it took a little while, but that was all upload and download times. The actual "upgrade" was practically instantaneous ("copy these new files over the existing ones"). […]
READ MOREIt must be my birthday or something for, in opening up all the mail that came while I was away in the office in California (my wife doesn't open junk mail or bills), I came across two letters that are deceitful to the nth degree and borderline scams in my opinion. […]
READ MOREI mentioned in my previous blog post that the workaround I had for displaying the tags for a post vertically, rather than as a horizontal, comma-separated list, was flawed. […]
READ MORENo sooner do I finish my quick series on customizing a Wordpress theme for Graffiti (I, II, III, IV) than I throw it all away for a — gasp — hand-written one. Yes, I got bored with the browns and went with the grays. […]
READ MORE(In which I continue taking apart a Wordpress theme to make it work with Graffiti. Part I. Part II. Part III.) […]
READ MOREPart of the job of altering the theme for this site, or indeed writing the "theme" for an ordinary page (here's my résumé, for example), is writing or modifying the CSS file (Cascading Style Sheet) to make it look good. I've used three main resources to help me do this as efficiently as I can. […]
READ MOREIn September this year, we went, as is usual, to England to see my parents and have a holiday. Well, the weather this trip was pretty bad, rain, rain, and flooding, but on one day it was brilliant sunshine and so we walked up Kisdon Hill behind my parents' house. […]
READ MOREI noticed this a couple of weeks ago, but couldn't pin it down to anything. All of a sudden, the Graffiti application used to run this blog suddenly stopped working, throwing up its generic error page. After a little bit of investigation why, I found out that the write permissions on the blog root folder had been cleared. […]
READ MOREAs you can see when you view my blog in your browser (versus viewing it in your RSS reader, for example), I'm still playing around with the look of the new website. I've added a fixed background image (a chain link fence after a night of freezing sleet) for visual contrast. […]
READ MOREIn my previous post on the K&E Deci-Lon slide rule, the normal sized images in the text were linked to some monster images for extra detail (and there is a lot of detail in a finely-machined slide rule — it's geek porn!). Since each monster image was of the order of 3 to 4MB in size I didn't want to soak up my fixed-sized, limited Go-Daddy bandwidth to host them. […]
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