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Aside from the normal messing around with my style sheets, I added an early version of a Pepper I’m working on this week. I had a QuickTime checker in there before, but it was triggering the information bar in IE. Sure, “works in IE” isn’t exactly my driving concern here, but still. Let me know if you see any new¹ errors, warnings, or lost goats wandering around my website.

Speaking of IE, I haven’t looked at my latest style sheets in IE, so the whole place could be an unintelligible mess for all I know. Visually, I mean. You know — for different reasons than it usually is.

1. …or are “still seeing old” for that matter. [↩]

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More random tinkering with my website:

• Upgraded to the latest point release of WordPress.
• I switched to a more orthodox site layout, instead of the bizarre, half-assed crap that I had going on before. Consequences (intended and otherwise) include:
  • More stuff “just works” than used to, including almost anything related to how up-to-date stuff is (which hopefully will have more benefits than consequences).
  • I retired one of my private plugins, which served only to make part of my screwball setup work.
  • For the moment, authentication isn’t done over SSL (as it should be).
  • CSS files (or anything else belonging to my current theme) are no longer served over SSL (as they shouldn’t be).
  • You should have seen the mess that made of my live-preview in MarsEdit.
  • Spammers seem to be getting far less confused on the way to my form submission URL, resulting in a meteoric rise in the length of my spam queue — sorry, anyone trying to comment on my site who doesn’t have my e-mail address.
• I switched anti-spam plugins. Nothing against Spam Karma 2, mind you — it’s quite good, I just wanted to check out Akismet.
• Retired another one of my private plugins that now duplicates a core feature.
• Switched from WP Cache 2 to WP Super Cache, because the former wasn’t working properly on my site. Why cache a site that nobody reads? Why not!

Update: April 30, 2008

Found another one:

• All permalinks in my feeds have been invalid since I did this. I thought the only thing of consequence I had broken by not moving Mint properly was its up-to-date link — I was wrong. Bird Feeder was using the old hostname in the URLs it constructs.

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I’ve been messing with my site again, so don’t be shocked the next time you go to the actual web page. The color scheme is almost certainly not final — its just some random set of light-on-dark colors produced by fiddling with the color picker in TextMate.

Aside from the obvious throwing stuff around the page willy-nilly and splashing geegaw colors on everything, features include:

• A Tag Cloud. I was getting a lot of threatening phone calls
  from the Web 2.0 police for not having one, and my
  cat just couldn’t stand the stress any longer.
• Breadcrumbs. Sometimes. They don’t work properly in pages yet.
  In fact, they don’t work properly anywhere other than date
  archives and single entries.
• Asides. You wouldn’t know from how things look in the feed,
  but my site presents asides differently from regular posts.
  Oh, and I might start doing them.
• The footer no longer claims I haven’t written anything in two
  years. Then again, maybe I haven’t written anything in
  two years. It’s hard to tell sometimes.
• What little of consequence you could formerly do from my
  archives page you can now do from every page. So don’t
  bother going to the archives page to do it. You don’t
  need it. And it isn’t one to go to.
• Broken Stuff. I don’t know what or where, but I assume there
  is some. And there’s probably twice as much of it for people
  who still use IE, although I doubt any of them read my
  blog.

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