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Month: June 2002
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Head, Wall, CSS
So instead of updating my Blog, I’m fiddling with its Style Sheet.
Unlike Radio, which uses templates heavily based on work-anywhere, look-the-same-in-any-browser tables, Movable Type relies on CSS for the design of it’s default templates, which are all in XHTML-whatever.
CSS looks different in each browser, but it’s main advantage is that it makes the HTML much cleaner to write. No more <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr>… crap to wade through everytime.
Now, the style sheet could do with some simplifying (notice all the different fonts – they could do with some reduction), but the CSS lets you do cool stuff.
It has it’s limitations, though. For example, it took me a while to figure out how to recreate the simple design I used in my regular pages – a full-width header, two columns (content and sidebar), and a full-width footer. The tricky part was the footer, and the solution to that problem was a CSS attribute called clear, which effects how a given box of text (DIV or P) is arranged in relation to floating elements (the way I do the sidebar is to use the float attribute to float the content to the left of the sidebar, or vice-versa).
What clear does is to move the box (P or DIV) to which it applies down until it’s below the floating box(P or DIV).
God, that was horribly technical.
Anyway, I stole the float bit from Mark Pilgrim‘s style-sheets, and although I looked at the useful tips and templates at Glish.com, I found the attribute I needed on the style sheet for the front page of BlueRobot.
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Guy Hasson
Guy Hasson, a writer whom I met a while back in the legendary Rehovot Science Fiction club (the one organized by Aharon Sheer for 11 years, and held monthly at Bill and Tova Silverman’s place) has resurfaced, having located me through the web.
Apparently, he’s got a web site collecting his Science Fiction stories, Science Fiction for Everyone, and it’s being collected in a book by Bitan.
He’s also got 2 novels in e-book format, and he’s been busy for the last year or two with a comedy show called Sex in the small town, which played in ZOA house in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.
That Guy is a pillar of dedication and hard work.
I am in awe of him.
He makes me sick.
Too busy playing with the blog templates and style sheet to bother with actually writing anything.
Spent yesterday writing a review of Hero Wars for the Gargoyle, and then went out late for a visit to Hershko’s LARP.
While it was cool, Pelli’s comment that those Vampire meetings are starting to look like an event organized for Microsoft employees does ring true.
Also, this outing caused much domestic strife, although Suzie is apparently not divorcing me just yet.
On Thursday Suzie gave a reading at the Raanana public library. It went very well, after an initial excitment she got into the swing of things, and in the second half she had the whole audience laughing.
There was an accompanying musician who actually sang a Polish march (“Marshal Dombrowski’s March”?), which was very bizzare but fit wonderfully. Also, a lot of Suzie’s old friends showed up, which was nice.
I should have invited more of my friends – Assi would have enjoyed it, I bet.
This is starting to look like my campaign’s recap, or a journal of gibberish. Damn.
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MovableType, take 1
After futzing about with writing my own blogging-tool (see, it should be written in Perl, because Perl rocks, and it should run on my desktop, uploading the files by ftp, because Perl support on Corky is sorta weak, but it should also let me synchronize the data through the web server, so I can work on it both from home and from work, and… ), I decided to give Movable Type a spin.
The problem is that MT uses DB_File, and Bo can’t install that on corky because of the afforementioned crappy Perl installation. So I figure I’ll set MT up on a local web server, and then FTP everything up to corky.
Does this work? Let’s give it a spin….