Various and Sundry.

[richardf8]

1) I've created a home for my political cartoons on the web, sifting through my livejournal to find them is cumbersome. Layout is not ready for prime time. When I'm happy with it technically, I will furnish a link.

2) I'm planning a few changes to the automation software that drives Cat-Tharsis and "Ranting and Raving," as the Political Cartoon site is called. My goal is to add a routine that allows me to provide supplemental HTML to cartoons as I see fit.

3) Autumn is here. Autumn makes me happy. I am happy. I have done a fair bit of house cleaning, always a nice prerequisite for winter.

4) Grendel has been battling the same crud he had 6 months ago, and I have been dreading another $1500.00 vet bill. However, a boost in his Prednisone dosage (from weekly to daily) seems to have helped. He is drinking, eating, and grooming again. I think threatening him with the prospect of getting subcutaeous Ringers' solution for a month may have, ah, incentivized him to feel better.

5) Built an Ikea chest of drawers with and for morgan1. I'll do a more detailed Ikea entry later, but for now, Ikea customers should bear in mind that an "inspection area" is supplied at the pickup location, and should be utilized. We found some broken wheels in the drawer-glides, but decide the trek back to Bloomington was not worth the trouble.

6) Grand Marnier truffles are good.

Comments

Re: Other People's Magic

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok, that's cool. Mind you AutoFox is very much open source and you can do whatever you like to it and run it out of your home account.

If you'd rather use PHP on HN, feel free to do so, as I run Skype off my laptop, not the HRF server.

You're correct on the CPU vs. storage situation: PIII 1GHz and 55GB of free disk space for 3 users tilts the equation to static. I've had some really crummy experiences (*cough*Keenspace*cough)with DHTML, which prejudice's me against DHTML web sites. It's not a logically defensible opinion at all, just a memory of frustation... :)

CYa!
Mako

Re: Other People's Magic

[richardf8]

Thanks! I probably will switch HN over to PHP ComicSite when I build another staging server; I still haven't replaced the HW I lost in the robbery :(. Nothing against Autofox; it's just that my tags are ever so slightly different from Autofox's, and when I want to change something, I know right where to look under the hood - for me to modify AF would be like you tricking out a Duster. ;)

Keenspace is frustrating with the simplest of tasks. In fact, all things Keen* are inherently borked, which is why kevinjdog's feedback form had to go live on HRF; Keen can't even find its way to SMTP! (Probably to prevent it from being used for SPAM). Keen inspired PHPComicSite because I got sick of wrestling with it. I imagine AutoFox has a similar origin story.

Re: Other People's Magic

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Ok, just let me know when you do the switchover so crontab get's updated.

Amen on all things Keensplat :-/

CYa!
Allen

Re: Other People's Magic

[richardf8]

Don't even worry about it; it won't kill me to update my crontab entry, after all, I created the one that's out there now.