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Tech
Tech-focused ramblings. Computers, blogs, and whatever else fits.
I got into As The Apple Turns!
Hey — I’m famous! Or…something like that. See, I stumbled across a link earlier today that I thought might be of interest to my favorite Apple-flavored soap opera, As the Apple Turns — and they used it for one of their stories today! Too cool…check it out: Aqua in the candy dish!
2 hours in the life of a ‘puter geek
Ever wondered just what ‘geeking out’ entails? Some nights it’s diving into whatever the geek’s code of choice is (HTML and CSS for me), other nights it’s more hardware based. Well, tonight I had a problem with my primary work Mac, and kept a log of what I was doing as I went along. Feel free to take a look if you’d like….
Geek code
Here’s my geek code.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GAT d+ s:-- a- C++ U*++++ P+ L- E--- W+++
N+ o K w--- O---- M++ V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5
X++ R-- tv-- b++ DI++ D+ G e h r+ y*
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Blogsnob
This is nice to know — I just signed up with BlogSnob to display little text ads (you should be able to see the ad on the right side, between “Books” and “blog rings/links”). I display links to other people’s blogs, and my link gets displayed on other people’s blogs. I just checked my stats, and since I signed up on the 7th — just four days ago — my ad has been displayed 208 times, and I’ve had 6 people visit my site from my BlogSnob ad on another site. This gives me a 2.88% click-through rate, which while it doesn’t sound very high, when ad banner click-through rates are commonly reported at somewhere around .25% or lower, it’s pretty good. I’ll be staying with these guys.
I was having some problems getting the code to validate, but just got a little help from ServMe (FriedKitten), and now everythings validating and displaying without a hitch. Woohoo!
Maybe copyright too?
While this site and its contents are protected by U.S. Copyright Law, I may want to look into officially registering. It’s more of a formality, as I don’t really think someone would try to claim that any of this drivel is their own — but why not?
ISSN for The Long Letter?
I can apply for an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) for my blog, making it a legitimate publication in the eyes of librarians everywhere! Pretty cool, huh?
More archive tweaks
I spent some time this morning doing some more tweaking, trying to get the archives into a more useable and user-friendly format. The current layout has a calendar for the current month displayed, with any day that I’ve made a post as a clickable link that will take you to that day’s posts in the archive files. Underneath the calendar are links to the monthly archive pages dating back to Nov. 2000. The ‘full archives’ link underneath that links to a page listing every post I’ve made, split up into categories in a table. On that page, the header for each table will take you to the full category archive (these pages can be huge, though), and the individual post links will take you directly to each post on its own.
Hopefully this will make digging through my archives a bit easier (in case there’s anyone here quite crazy enough to bother).
New iMac ad
Apple‘s got a great new iMac ad on the airwaves. Too cute!
What’s a ‘blog’?
Dad’s asked me in the past what a weblog is. Rebecca does a much better job explaining it than I ever could.