I just found an interesting-looking Manila site called Singularity , that links to all sorts of cool science stuff, including this WIRED article about Consciousness being based on magnetic fields or something, and a review on the New York Times of Stephan Wolfram’s book.
All this from a link on BoingBoing pointing to John Robb blog with the sad news that Dave Winer is in hospital.
I got a link from Yossi Gurvitz, who went so far as to call me “a good friend”. Gosh.
Slowly slowly, I shall prise some flow from LiveJournal’s tight grasp…
Nir‘s vocal band, Funkapella are going to play the Eilat Jazz Festival.
Nir has prepared a publicity poster for the occasion, with the members of the band as superheros:
Of course, I immediately identified the underlying characters as members of the latest and perhaps most obscure incarnation of the Doom Patrol. Writer John Arcudi’s main innovation in this remake of a remake of a wonderful, surreal remake of a remake of a remake of a classic “bizzare superhero” comic is his (remake of) the character of Negative Man: Unlike his predecessors, Negative Man from the original Doom Patrol and Negative Woman from the 2nd Doom Patrol, he doesn’t have any weird anti-matter nega-energy powers; he’s just a guy that’s really negative about everything…
Ayelet Aloni joins LiveJournal, credit claimed by the Evil Countess Belvane, film at 11. Now go read all about Ladies’ Troubles. Or Writers’.
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.