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A quiet Sunday... almost.
I've been accumulating things to do and today did a bunch of Web file work, both on my own (professional) site and on that of the ATA's Slavic Languages Division.
The former I maintain using CityDesk, while the latter I still do "by hand." The hardest thing I found about using CityDesk is figuring out how to do the things you want to do, and the learning curve for my site was quite impressive. Then again, once you've set things up the way you want them, it's relatively easy to update your site.
The work I did on the SLD site (it's been a couple of years, I guess) resulted in something that was a vast improvement over what was there before. Nonetheless, the more I look at what's there, the more I want to invest the time to make it better and "stickier." One way to do that might be to grab some RSS files from various Slavic-oriented sites and add the headlines therein to the SLD home page.
Of course, before I can do that, I need to learn more about RSS (a process that's in work, starting with an article in the November 2002 issue of LINUX Format, a magazine published in the UK).
* * * After the snowfall earlier last week, I figured it was better than even money that Drew and Shannon would want to go up on the mountain today. There were no takers for that action, and they left Huntur in our charge before they left.
I introduced Huntur to magnetism, using a fairly large magnet I brought back with me from Houston and some paper clips. She enjoyed watching the paper clips form a chain simply by touching them one to the other, and seemed adequately mystified when a paper clip, sitting on a piece of thin cardboard, started to move on its own (with the magnet directly underneath).
After a lunch of vegetable soup (ugh! horrid stuff... condensed... I can't imagine what came over me to buy it...), we watched a little of Disney's Fantasia and soon, Huntur was asleep. I returned to my office to make a couple of final tweaks to the files I'd been editing earlier in the day, and then did a little of the paper chase.
Huntur was about to the point of awakening when I came back upstairs, and I can attest to the fact that I was no match for a freshly rested 18-month-old. Galina tried to lend a hand, but her back's been hurting her, so I was the main entertainer and lifter around the house, until the kids came back from their day of snowboarding.
Time to hit the hay, despite the relatively early hour. My yawning is becoming uncontrollable. :^)
Cheers...
The former I maintain using CityDesk, while the latter I still do "by hand." The hardest thing I found about using CityDesk is figuring out how to do the things you want to do, and the learning curve for my site was quite impressive. Then again, once you've set things up the way you want them, it's relatively easy to update your site.
The work I did on the SLD site (it's been a couple of years, I guess) resulted in something that was a vast improvement over what was there before. Nonetheless, the more I look at what's there, the more I want to invest the time to make it better and "stickier." One way to do that might be to grab some RSS files from various Slavic-oriented sites and add the headlines therein to the SLD home page.
Of course, before I can do that, I need to learn more about RSS (a process that's in work, starting with an article in the November 2002 issue of LINUX Format, a magazine published in the UK).
I introduced Huntur to magnetism, using a fairly large magnet I brought back with me from Houston and some paper clips. She enjoyed watching the paper clips form a chain simply by touching them one to the other, and seemed adequately mystified when a paper clip, sitting on a piece of thin cardboard, started to move on its own (with the magnet directly underneath).
After a lunch of vegetable soup (ugh! horrid stuff... condensed... I can't imagine what came over me to buy it...), we watched a little of Disney's Fantasia and soon, Huntur was asleep. I returned to my office to make a couple of final tweaks to the files I'd been editing earlier in the day, and then did a little of the paper chase.
Huntur was about to the point of awakening when I came back upstairs, and I can attest to the fact that I was no match for a freshly rested 18-month-old. Galina tried to lend a hand, but her back's been hurting her, so I was the main entertainer and lifter around the house, until the kids came back from their day of snowboarding.
Time to hit the hay, despite the relatively early hour. My yawning is becoming uncontrollable. :^)
Cheers...
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Not online much for a few days - visitors, work, life in general so... Happy Christmas to you and yours, and a great, challenging, peaceful, lucrative, event-filled (delete as necessary) 2003 :
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Thanks.
Cheers...
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I notice, for example, that in Galeon (a browser for Linux, which also uses quite a bit of Netscape code, if memory serves), the narrow red separator lines that display properly in IE show up as character-high bands.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Cheers...