{"id":1275,"date":"2003-06-11T04:27:34","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/11\/still-here\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:06:12","slug":"still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/11\/still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Still here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Been kind of quiet around here lately. No major reasons for that, really, but a few minor ones.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to revamp my photoblog for a while now, but it had been one of those &#8220;back burner&#8221; projects. I finally decided it was time to get started, and &#8212; rather than do my coding from scratch, as I normally do &#8212; I went out looking for a decent pre-made template to use. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s going to work. I started work on setting everything up, but all I&#8217;ve succeeded in doing so far is making my photoblog all sorts of screwy. The template I found, while a decent look, is designed for smaller photos than I&#8217;ve been posting (so I&#8217;d have to resize everything I&#8217;ve uploaded so far), uses very different posting conventions (so I&#8217;ll have to fix my previously uploaded photos), and &#8212; the two most damning issues &#8212; will not work for portrait photographs (landscape only), and is a heavily table-based layout (rather than CSS-based). Ick. So, I need to start over with that project.<\/p>\n<p>Another project I&#8217;ve got going on is fixing up all my past entries in this weblog to work better with the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/related_entries.html\" title=\"Related Entries\">related entries hack<\/a> I put in last week. In order for it to calculate which entries are related to a given post, the most important fields are the &#8216;Excerpt&#8217; and the &#8216;Keywords&#8217;. Well, as I&#8217;ve wasn&#8217;t using some of MT&#8217;s features when I started this weblog, only about half of my posts have excerpts, and I just started using the keywords field. So, I&#8217;m working my way backwards through over two years of posts, adding in the missing information. It&#8217;ll be good when it&#8217;s done, but it&#8217;s a long, slow process.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, when I&#8217;ve been taking some time to scan through my newsreader, there just hasn&#8217;t been anything much that&#8217;s really catching my eye enough to post about. All the political stuff starts to sound the same after a while, the technical weblogs I read have been focusing more on issues that I don&#8217;t deal with very much, and the mac world is more or less on hold until WWDC at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>So, things are a little slow for the moment. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll pick back up in a bit &#8212; I go through times like this every so often. Just a bit &#8216;OB&#8217;d&#8217; (overblogged), I think. ;)<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve started yet another project (because I need another one&#8230;), and will be resurrecting my long-dead quotebook by posting a quote a day to the &#8216;quotes&#8217; category of this weblog. Until any more substantial content shows up, enjoy those!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been kind of quiet around here lately. No major reasons for that, really, but a few minor ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}