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Monday, January 30th, 2006

Akismet and Spam Karma 2

I’ve been using Akismet to stop comment spam for a while now. It worked fine, but I was never quite sure what it was doing. I went back to using Spam Karma 2 today, since the plugin that lets SK2 and Akismet work together is out of beta. So now I can have the added [...]

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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

New semester and problems solved

Well, my first class seems like it will be ok. It’s Quantitative Research II, Analysis of Variance. The texts are good, much clearer than last semester’s regression analysis class. The instructor seems good, he actually took time to explain things until everyone understood, and has a very different teaching style than last semester’s professor.
There [...]

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

A new semester begins

Today begins a new semester. Being back in classes will hopefully save me from myself. People spend their free time in lots of different ways. I usually work on web sites. Changes to this site went pretty well, my other projects didn’t turn out as planned. In attempting to integrate Stephanie’s blog and photo gallery [...]

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Friday, January 13th, 2006

Success…mostly

The CSS is still a bit convoluted, but thanks to some help from Matt I was able to clean things up a bit. I’ve also made the site readable in Netscape 4.x Amazingly I was able to get Netscape Communicator 4.8 to run on my machine.
As I’ve said before Netscape 4.x is a horrible [...]

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Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Comments on the new design

Visually I like the new look, but the CSS behind the site is pretty complex, I’m sure it’s more complex than it needs to be. There are lots of fixes in there for browser bugs/CSS glitches.
http://www.librarymonk.com/wp-content/themes/monastery/style.css
Most of these fixes are for browsers that very few people still use. I’d rather the content be readable across [...]

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