Lifestream: Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. Better late than never.
I have been busy perfecting a few things about the Nucleus interface. Most importantly I added categories. I’m probably the last person on the net to add categories but it’s still a big thing around here. My initial thought, when I started blogging, was that all posts and all ideas would interconnect somehow and that [...]
The Origins of Totalitarianism. Hannah Arendt.
Recognized on publicaton as the definitive account of its subject and ten years later hailed as a classic by the Times Literary Supplement, this remarkable book has been foremost wherever the characteristics and problems of the twentieth century are discussed. Dr. Arendt’s study begins with an account of the [...]
I took the WebPageAnalyzer test to see what they had to say about the front portal page, slightly abbreviated:
Warnings:
The total number of objects on this page is 57 - consider reducing this to a more reasonable number. Combine, refine, and optimize your external objects. Replace graphic rollovers with CSS rollovers to speed display and minimize [...]
I got really bored with the standard Nucleus comment form. Basically it’s been there since I activated comments with minor CSS modifications. There are a number of shortcomings, beyond the actual CSS and layout, which I also aim to correct.
Formatting of text input, bold, italic etc. There is a plugin to this end I [...]
I just spent over an hour and a half trying to figure out how to force both IE and Mozilla / Firefox to recognize the viewport as set to 100% height. Until I found Quirksmode which explained it all. It wasn’t really a problem back when ‘everyone’ was using Internet Explorer. But it’s an easy [...]
I just stumbled upon the most brilliant way to include short mp3 files for streaming called SoundManager. The only downside being that files have to be declared statically in an XML file but still more compatible and useful than Sonify since it does accept mp3 data and you wont have to convert it to swf [...]
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