Ulanism

Put Amarantine by Enya into heavy rotation over the past two days and must say I am not thrilled. She is one of the few bright lights in easy listening, new-age stuff that has come into my life. Been following to her since LA Story and have pretty much enjoyed everything she has done. Maybe I am just getting a bit too jaded, but this album sounds formulaic and “soft”.

Amarantine is the only catchy song and it is derivative of so much of her past good stuff. Oh well, I hope Margaret enjoys the songs.

The special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case said on Friday that he would use a new grand jury in his continuing investigation… [The skin of an onion]

Halliburton Case Is Referred to Justice Dept. Here we go again…

DeLay Ex-Aide to Plead Guilty in Lobby Case The deal reveals a broadening corruption investigation involving top members of Congress… Mr. DeLay has been indicted in Texas on unrelated charges involving fund-raising practices for state Republicans. [And the band played on...]

Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan Can we really not learn from out past? We are all one people. And we will die as one if we do not heed this
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So nice: http://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(120, ‘<a><img><b><i><div>’, ‘content’, ‘true’, ‘more…’); ?>

This nice little plugin allows you to alter your “excerpt”. Mine is now set to

• display 120 words of the post
• allow a, img, ul, li, b, i and div tags [got me for a bit]
• uses the content formatting (like <p> and <b>)
• displays “more…” as the link to the full post

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Plugin by Simple Thoughts links the post to http://translate.google.com

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Tried to get a bunch of code highlighting plugins to work to no avail. Once we upgrade to Fedora Core3 we should have GD2 working along with PHP 4.3 allowing for some nifty things like this. Guess it will just
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So, here I am with this cool slide script to rotate images without reloading a page from the nice folks at javascriptkit.com. Now I am thinking; “Wouldn’t it be schweet if I could get the images to rotate up in the header of my WordPress blog.” The problem is, how do you lay text on top of an image that is displayed using javascript (ie: can’t put the image in the CSS) without using tables?

Come to find out, it takes less than a dozen lines of CSS code and the proper placement of the slide code in the header file.

Done. Clean. And works anywhere.

Spent the last hour mucking around with WordPress.

• Install the Falling Leaves theme
• Delete old Blogroll links and add some new ones
• Mess with the Sidebar
• Add a few categories for my posts to go into
• Unsuccessfully tried to get the “mail in your post” to work (oh well)
• Turn on file uploading

That is enough for now. Time to move onto other tasks…

My buddy Graeme hipped me to Al Green’s “Belle” album. Been grooving to Georgia Boy for the last half hour or so. Man this guy is a funky monster!

Just because I’m thinking about New York City
Just cuz I am, don’t mean I ain’t thinking ’bout Georgia too

I think of NYC often. But I think of Queenstown, San Pedro, Nyalla and Sassari too.

Funny how life changes.

Around 4pm yesterday Marisa turned around and said; “Want to move
into the newly free room? You know Bill is coming soon and he can
help you move the desk upstairs. Plus, there is no reason for all of
us to be crammed into the smallest room. And… you know, you coudl
move out of the closet. The CEO really should not be in the closet.”

Hmm…

Sounded like a bright idea at the time. 5 computers, a zillion
cables, two big desks and my tiny “$35 CostPlus fold-up special”, 4
chairs and 6 children later… YVOD is now in it’s new “corporate”
office. Did not have time to hook up the printers or fax but got the
network
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Funny how life changes.

Around 4pm yesterday Marisa turned around and said; “Want to move into the newly free room? You know Bill is coming soon and he can help you move the desk upstairs. Plus, there is no reason for all of us to be crammed into the smallest room. And… you know, you could move out of the closet. The CEO really should not be in the closet.”

Hmm…

Sounded like a bright idea at the time. 5 computers, a zillion cables, two big desks, my tiny “$35 CostPlus fold-up special”, 4 chairs and 6 children later… YVOD is now in it’s new “corporate” office. Did not have time to hook up the printers
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He he… Halloween sure was fun. Lots to do, lots to see and a good time was had by all.

The family McKnight spent most of our free time that week building plans from Martha Stewart. Ended up with three cats, lots of rats and a witch that was fun and scary at the same time. Add to that a giant purple blow-up spider that Dan hung from a tree and you have all the fixings for a fun time.

Andrea and Art threw a nice party for all the kiddies and then everyone ran around the neighborhood finding scary things to see.

We had over 300 people come by and ran out of
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We all need help at times. Here are some places I go in no particular order:

w3schools.com - The “official” source as far as I am concerned
alistapart.com - No one is finer
dezwozhere.com/links.html - Wonderful collection of CSS links
mandarindesign.com/boxes.html - Amazing CSS box work
pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/ - Very simple 3 column layout I use
csszengarden.com/ - The beauty of CSS
Changing Font Attributes - How fonts work in CSS