Monday, July 5, 2010
As I was editing and saving the last post (via FTP) I ended up with a blank master template. I'm not really worried about the few posts that I've written, or even the template file, but the engine that's powering this site is coming along pretty well and it would be pretty devastating to lose all that work at this point. It's amazing how often I don't back up my work. It's all backed up now ;)
Monday, July 5, 2010
I went to see Toy Story 3 today and have got to say that as a movie I enjoyed it a lot, it's pretty cool. Having said that though, it's the first movie that I've seen in "Digital 3D" and I was pretty sceptical about the spate of 3D'ification that has been taking place. Although I enjoyed the movie I'm still underwhelmed by the whole 3D thing. At times the picture looked unclear and blurry to me. Maybe I was paying too much attention, or maybe I'm just getting old...
Monday, July 5, 2010
I used to rail against "society" and it's constructs. "They're stopping me from being who I want to be man..." But as you get older you, hopefully, get wiser. I'm realising that "society" has very little to do with who or what I am, and really doesn't care that much. Society is mostly people like me who have no idea what they're doing and are just trying to do their best. Whether others choose to go about that in the same way as me isn't important.
We have some pretty simple rules in our "society", which can be boiled down to one rule really, don't do anything to anybody else that they don't want you to do. That's pretty much it. Other than that there's plenty of room for you to do or be whatever you want.
There are of course injustices, but these days I'm saving my outrage for the big ones. Namely when corporations or governments don't follow the one simple that the rest of us are expected to follow. When governments act unfairly or unjustly, when banks prey on the weak, when companies lie and steal for profit, these are all worthy of my outrage. But as far as "society" is concerned... Society is just people like me.
Friday, July 2, 2010
I took this of some people fishing off the rocks at North Burleigh. I'm posting it see what it looks like with an image post first on the page... I think I do need titles for photos after all.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Another decision to be made is whether or not to have comments. On the one hand the idea of conversation and feedback is nice, on the other, well sometimes they just don't work.
Again the main reason for my decision is mostly asthetic. I don't like the ugly "X Comment's" under each post. So I've decided to include comments on the dedicated page for each post but not display the number of comments under each post on the main page. If you follow the Permalink to the dedicated page you'll see the Disqus comments under the post. Not a traditional way to handle comments but I like it.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Currently I have content broken into three different data types; Posts, Photos, and Links. The thing that I'm wrestling with is how each of those data types gets displayed. Should they all be displayed the same, with a title, date, and permalink? Or should they be treated differently?
Should Photos have a title and a date? Certainly I want them to have a Permalink so I can link to them but I'm really not sure about the title and a date, it definitely looks nicer without them.
If I posted multiple links together then I'd probably want that to have a title, date, and permalink but if I just posted a one off link I wouldn't.
I'm thinking of treating each type differently, I guess the way to decide is to pick one way and stick with it for a while and see how it goes, I can always change it. I think I'll treat them differently and then it gives me the flexability of using a "Post" if I want the extra info as Posts can obviously include photos and/or links..
Thursday, July 1, 2010
This is here to fill up space, no more, no less. It's here for me to see what I can see and nothing more. What do you see? Are you sure that what you see is really there, I'm over here...
When you've seen everything that there is to see why do you still look? Is it me, is it you, is it us? They say that I'm neurotic but I don't believe them, you shouldn't believe them either, WE shouldn't believe them, what do they know anyway? Right? Am I right, or am I incorrect... I'll be alright, don't be left behind.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
This is a test to see what I can see when what I'm looking at is a photograph.