Reflections
Taken during our (Adam, Mark S and Dan) last lunch at La Provence in Concord. The glass table provides the reflective surface.
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I received my latest lab tests, from a previous physical, on Saturday and that carried us into a conversation on diet, health, and longevity. To which Matthew offered, “Dad, you’re not dying from high cholesterol or disease. You gonna bleed out someday. That’s a fact. Just accept it. I have.”
And this is a perfect segue into my plea for anecdotes. I’ve gotten a few but not as many as I’d hoped for. It’s not too late to send me yours. I’m going to post the ones I’ve collected early this week (see how smart I am not to give an actual date?). And since Diane stole the one I was going to use, maybe I should have saved the one above, but they are so easy to collect.
And one more thing. The blog is changing addresses and design. I hope to have the new one up on or before Friday.
I’ve got an anecdote about a near-death experience that still makes my hands sweat when I think about it. I’m been meaning to write about this for years, and now is the time. But I’ve got to arrange my thoughts, so I’m taking a notepad with me on our trip to the Keys, and I’ll write it up on my way there. It’s not long (though it produced long-lived, vivid nightmares), so I can quickly peck it into a blog-connected terminal at some internet cafe while watching the sun set over the
Gulf of Mexico.
Comment by rakkity — January 15, 2006 @ 9:22 pm
Wouldn’t you rather come here and watch your toes turn purple?
Comment by michael Miller — January 15, 2006 @ 10:00 pm
The new blog is beautiful. The graphic at the top fixes all the problems that people had with the old one (no more Hollywood letters) and I find the rest of the design very clean. The red lines between articles are kind of odd, though. Let me know if you need any more help…
Comment by charlie — January 16, 2006 @ 1:30 am
Help? Did I hear an offer for more help? How about the single biggest problem which are the funny characters (mostly question marks inside of black diamonds where apostrophes should be ñ click on any past year) created when Brian upgraded Movabletype. Movable changed character sets from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and everything I’d pasted from Word (is it any surprise?) now has those things. We even tried reverting back to ISO-8859-1 but it didnÃt work.
Now, we do have a saved copy that doesnÃt have those diamonds but I canÃt export it from the admin panel.
Search for >black question mark movabletypehttp://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/movabletype/movabletype-garbage-characters-problem.asp
I like the red lines.
Comment by michael — January 16, 2006 @ 8:03 am
Huh?
That top picture is GORGEOUS. Wow. No anecdotes to speak of but will keep my ears on alert.
Comment by La Rad — January 16, 2006 @ 12:16 pm
I like the red line, but truthfully didn’t notice it til brought to my attention in the above comment.
Comment by La Rad — January 16, 2006 @ 12:17 pm
I hate giving my opinion on the layout because I don’t think I’m seeing the intended design. Maybe I am, but the last time I gave my impressions on a wonderful design it turns out I wasn’t using a css compliant browser.
That being said (that and I’m now using the latest version of Firefox like everyone else with any sense), I don’t see any red lines.
As for encodings, the problem is most web browsers want to think you’re using unicode, but you’re really still using western encoding. Manually changing from unicode (what most browsers (should?) expect) to western iso-8859-1 will render the text in the desired manner. At least it did for me.
Also, I don’t see question marks in diamonds, I simply see question marks instead of apostrophes. This reminds me of a chathouse problem wherein people would have odd symbols in a handle and someone else would register the same handle but use hexadecimal for the symbol instead of the unicode character, allowing for spoofing.
Comment by t — January 16, 2006 @ 3:32 pm