{"id":24404,"date":"2020-08-26T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24404"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:11:09","slug":"on-this-day-aug-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/26\/on-this-day-aug-26\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Aug 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I&#8217;m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>16<\/strong> posts previously published on August 26th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/26\/alt-text-tips-from-a-visually-impaired-person\/\">Alt Text Tips From A Visually Impaired Person<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">If you've ever struggled with writing alt text for images, especially for photos that seem difficult to describe, here are six excellent tips from a visually impaired person. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/26\/alt-text-tips-from-a-visually-impaired-person\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/26\/year-50-day-116\/\">Year 50 Day 116<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The British Museum, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Shakespeare's Globe. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/26\/year-50-day-116\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/26\/on-this-day-aug-26\/\">On This Day: Aug 26<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/08\/26\/on-this-day-aug-26\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/26\/12442\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Summer vacation part one was in the mountains; today we leave for summer vacation part two, by a lake! As before, connectivity will be low priority, so y\u2019all have fun without me for another week. Once more, don\u2019t let anything important happen while we\u2019re gone, okay? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/08\/26\/12442\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/26\/21337\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Getting started. #blacklivesmatter <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/08\/26\/21337\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/26\/18263\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Gave Prairie her first taste of reindeer sausage, from one of the street vendors on 4th Ave. Batman seemed a bit intimidated, but she thought it was delicious! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/26\/18263\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/26\/18266\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Prairie and I on the coastal trail, on our morning walk. #vacation <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/26\/18266\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/26\/18269\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Beautiful morning for a walk along the coastal trail. #vacation <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/08\/26\/18269\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/the-seattle-times-kerry-for-president\/\">The Seattle Times: Kerry for President<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Seattle Times has officially endorsed Kerry for President. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/the-seattle-times-kerry-for-president\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/happy-anniversary\/\">Happy Anniversary!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Today is the 37th anniversary of the marriage of John Hanscom and Roberta Ward &mdash; also known quite fondly by me as Mom and Dad (though not respectively&hellip;I have an odd family, but not that odd). <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/happy-anniversary\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/untrusted-content-nofollow-etc\/\">Untrusted content, nofollow, etc.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Phil Ringnalda pointed to an idea that Ian Hickson just tossed out while brainstorming ways to battle the ever-increasing issue of comment spam. Personally, I'd love to be able to wrap the comments section of my individual entry pages in something like this &mdash; and actually, it reminds me a lot of a technique I used to use when I had my website running on my own webserver. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/untrusted-content-nofollow-etc\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/a-good-ui-is-a-good-thing\/\">A good UI is a good thing<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Terrence has a review of his Nomad Zen Xtra mp3 player posted, and while it's essentially a positive review, one line stood out to me. After having had the unit for six months and using it on what sounds like a near-daily basis, he mentions that he has 'basically mastered the controls.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/26\/a-good-ui-is-a-good-thing\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/marriage-by-the-book\/\">Marriage &#039;by The Book&#039;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Public Nuisance has a wonderful idea: as long as the religious right is proposing basing our national definition of marriage by Biblical standards, let's go ahead and do just that. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/marriage-by-the-book\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/washington-post-cribbing-research-from-blogs\/\">Washington Post cribbing research from blogs?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">RonK at the Daily Kos points out today that it appears the Washington Post's Dana Millbank is doing a lot of research by reading weblogs. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/washington-post-cribbing-research-from-blogs\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/26\/rebuilding-from-scratch\/\">Rebuilding from scratch<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Unfortunately, when I got home, it quickly became obvious that this was no minor problem. 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