Mon, 31 Mar 2003

Finally Blogrolling

Well, I finally got this blogroll thing figured out(mostly), and, as you'll notice if you're reading this, it's over on the right hand side of the home page, below the calander.

Radio Userland is a pretty good piece of software - only the occassional GPF (usually when shutting down) but it has TERRIBLE documentation. I have no idea exactly what most of the macros do, or how to write one myself, and I've been unable to fina anythnig resembling a clear tutorial. I you use it "out of the box", you can probably get it to do most anything you want, but, well, customization is a bit arcane, to say the least.

I will be sending a contribution to the blogrolling guy - just because it's a slick implementation of a slick idea, and we need more of those. Also, his bandwidth can't be cheap....

It could just be that I don't understand CSS all that well, either. Some of the stylesheets I've seen used here (and in other blogs) are nothing short of verbose to the max. As an old assembly programmer, methinks maybe some folks are using nuclear weapons to swat flies - CSS may be a great tool for Yahoo! or CNN, but for the typical blog/homepage it's way too complex to be manipulated easily or effectively.

I will be rearranging things slightly here, and preparing to move the blog itself over to it's own domain space. But that's gonna take a while.

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