While Mark Pilgrim explores his neighborhood, I've taken the more random approach of using blo.gs instead of Joshua's blogroll for my morning reading. Because I'm on different lab computers, I have Mozilla forget cookies after every session, so whenever I go to blo.gs I have to view the all-weblogs list--which I don't mind, since I can take a moment to browse for interesting names I don't know.
As if I didn't have things to do.
But this morning I really don't, so I'm reading comics at Modern Tales on university bandwidth. Ha. I had missed bits of American Born Chinese, Radiopolis, Teaching Baby Paranoia, and Patent Pending, and hadn't yet seen Paradigm Shift or Outside the Box (Flash). Nice.
Jamie Zawinski wants an RSS scraper. I'm still mulling PyStapler (or Stapler.py or whatever I might call it). I used my Staplered weather feed on my weblog sidebar, but since the main reason for the switch to Movable Type is so I can blog without Radio, it's often old. So a Stapler.py (I like that better) with a scanner to grab and decode raw METAR data would kick ass.
So would a better weblog entry editor than Movable Type's. I don't like the font or size, and I don't like the big gaping Extended Entry space when I'm not using it. Also it'd be neat if, when you posted an item, it came up with a list with inputs for titles, and automatically add such. Or maybe I'm imagining things.
Saving drafts rules, though.
From a thread on css-discuss, I discovered I shouldn't've set my hidden header section for speaking only (.toptitle) with display: none, but rather position: absolute; visibility: hidden. Also, I put MT's standard cookie JavaScript in a separate, unrebuilt index template, rather than including a copy every time I used my "Post comments" template module. Unfortunately I didn't think about that being mostly in weblog/archive/, so the relative link was wrong, and no cookie-ing happened at all.
I think I might include entry excerpts, floated right in its own box, like V. Satheesh Babu does. At least on the first item. That's just cool. Maybe the "Older entries" at the bottom too, instead of in the sidebar? That's pretty common on MT sites, and neat to boot.
