Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Aside: Asides

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, you probably haven’t noticed that Homo Sum now has “asides”–certain short posts that display differently from the larger more detailed posts.
At the moment they only display differently on the front page–not when you’re looking at them in single pages, or in any kind of archive, or [...]

If I did it right, you can’t tell.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

We are now WordPress 2.6, and all plugins are up-to-date (9 updates this week).
I believe everything is working correctly, but late-night upgrades from hotel rooms are not always perfect, so if you see something broken, drop me a comment–unless, of course, it’s commenting that’s broken. Heh.

Everything is OK

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Yes, we had a bit of a site outage today.
All issues at the ISP:
The web sites section of one of the hard drives on a shared hosting server is corrupted. We need to repair the files so that we can ensure your data is preserved. Estimated time is between 6-8 hours.
Everything seems to be back [...]

Gravatars & Identicons

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

You may have noticed a while back that I turned on gravatars for comments on the blog.
What this means, in a nutshell, for those who aren’t already down is that if you have a “globally registered avatar” at Gravatar.com, then your comments here will show the image beside the commentor name. (Assuming that you use [...]

Maintenance

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

I’m about to move up to Wordpress 2.5.
If there are any issues apparent before midnight (EST) assume I’m aware and working on them.
After that, please drop me a comment if you see something broken.

One Thousand (and one)

Monday, October 8th, 2007

I am shocked to discover that the previous post was number one thousand. Damn, that’s a lot of my blather.
To celebrate my millenipost, I present some of my favourite Latin poetry. This piece is commonly referred to by the highly creative and poetic name “Catallus 5″, since it’s the fifth of surviving works of Catallus.
Vivamus, [...]

Lazy Sunday Links

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

So, last night we had a ridiculously out of season snowstorm, which dropped almost a foot of snow on us over night.
Yes, I am writing this on Easter weekend. Yes, it is April.
And yet still I saw this when I looked out the window this morning:

The one upside of this is that I got to [...]

I love visualization

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

This is a representation of this web page:

The legend is as follows:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the [...]