overt.org

Here it is. It’s still not totally done, but close enough that I wanted to transfer all the old posts over. Please let me know if you encounter any errors or explosions or whatever. And yes, I’m going to change the pic up top…

---

Comments

cameron — 2004-07-08 16:50:45

Um…all the links/archives/search/etc on the right hand side are at the bottom of the page (at least in IE6)

i like the blue

bryan — 2004-07-08 17:26:31

damn you IE! i don’t have a windows machine to test it with. But i’ll try to find one.

bryan — 2004-07-08 17:48:09

okay… i borrowed leslie’s school laptop, which runs windows. I’m going to see if i can’t sort things out…

clare — 2004-07-08 18:01:02

IE balows

bryan — 2004-07-08 18:27:23

seems to look tolerable in IE now. Seriously, that browser is a huge security risk and a travesty of web standards. Use something better, safer, smaller, free and open source. Firefox!

cameron — 2004-07-08 19:56:42

done and done

i love the comment box!

leslie — 2004-07-08 20:11:55

Looks great! I love the yellow flowers pic. :)

bryan — 2004-07-08 22:37:48

cam - you tried Firefox? What do you think?

cameron — 2004-07-09 09:03:26

let’s see…i enjoy the tabs….why IE still doesn’t have them is a mystery to me - i always use them in safari on dad’s ibook. oh, and i was really impressed that it would play my online health lectures (which say you MUST use IE to view them and which none of the three different browsers on dad’s ibook could play)

i don’t know. everything seems to be going well. what else should i have noticed about its greatness?

bryan — 2004-07-09 09:20:49

Nothing in particular… I just figured because you were still using IE in this day and age that you must be die-hard or something :) One of my favorite things about firefox is the plugins. There’s the super-cool BugMeNot plugin that automatically gets bogus registration information for those “registration required” websites. There’s adblock that lets you right-click on any image or flash thingy and block it, and (maybe handy for you) there’s even ieview, that lets you right click to view a page in IE when you absolutely have to. I haven’t tried the last one, though, because it’s windows only.

em — 2004-07-11 07:58:46

The new look is fabu!!

Over the long weekend, a friend of ours took us up to her home town about 2 hours north of SF, Sebastopol. The highlights included picking and eating massive quantities of fresh berries, eating pies and cakes made from said berries, enjoying said berries over home-made waffles, and staining jeans with said berries. Also there were lots of cute pets, from bipolar dogs to slutty cats, and a guest house née water tower that served as abode for a couple of nights.

On the 3rd we watched Sebastopol’s lovely fireworks show while gorging ourselves on peanut butter M&Ms, Jolly Ranchers, and Goldfish. On the 4th we threw a show of our own in the back yard, the highlight of which was the dog that interpreted the fireworks as its mortal enemy, to be eaten and pawed at all costs.

I’m back at work now, my third-to-last week, tying up loose ends and generally explaining to a lot of people why I’m leaving. Its not so bad. overt’s new look is almost done–I’ve got the stylesheet all done, and now I just need to write a script to copy all the entries over from postnuke to wordpress.

---

Comments

Susan — 2004-07-07 13:12:48

Will we see pictures of this most recent adventure?

bryan — 2004-07-08 10:51:11

yes, pictures exist… we haven’t pulled them off the camera yet. but we will. Soon.

Yesterday at the climbing gym I fell a bit funny off a boulder problem and twisted my ankle. It’s not severe, but it sure does make it a pain to walk. Immediately after I hit the ground and felt my ankle going all wonky, I tried to crumple up into a ball to minimize the injury. I think it worked. After hopping flamboyantly over to the front desk to get some ice to put on it, i lay down on my back for a good 10 minutes holding my ankle up in the air, contemplating the fate of the impending long weekend. I checked out my ankle and didn’t notice too much swelling, so I went, kangaroo-amputee style, to my car for a dangerous drive home, using my heel on the brake and gas, praying that I wouldn’t be called upon for any sort of evasive maneuvers. And I’ve been trying to keep it above my heart and iced ever since. This is, believe it or not, the most serious injury I’ve ever had climbing, in the 11 years or so I’ve been at it.

So, needless to say, with my 8 remaining sick days and 3 weeks of work to use them in, I’m at home today resting. My plan is to try to tackle the CSS for the new site, and (who knows?) maybe try to get it up today. I wont bore you with the geeky minutiae. Suffice it to say that my web programming knowledge is crusty and old fashioned, and all the kids today with their divs and their stylesheets are starting to make me look bad. Like a pathetic middle-aged man tinkering on an ‘82 firebird parked conspicuously far out on his driveway, trying to recapture the mechanical wizardry of his youth, I will force upon my readers yet another revision of overt in an effort to prove that I still have The Right Stuff. Look out.

---

Comments

clare — 2004-07-04 11:26:56

again, woot css.

I’m working on putting together a reasonable stylesheet for WordPress. Once I do, I’m going to try to get all my content migrated over from postnuke, which has proven to be unwieldy in the end. Hopefully I’ll gain some flexibility and simplicity with the move.

---

Comments

Susan — 2004-07-02 06:27:59

I don't understand any of this.  what does it mean?  Will it make my life better?

bryan — 2004-07-02 10:08:30

it relates to my website. just like leslie and cameron use something called “blogger,” I use something called “postnuke” to do my site. I’m switching from this to something called “WordPress.” And it will change the way you think about the world. Or, at least, it will change the way my web page looks.

Another gentleman is having the heads cut off in Iraq where the terrors are in such an uproar. Osama Ben Laden captured a South Korean robot fixer and then put him to the tests on the wrong side of a knife. There is defenselessness and the video is released onto the Internets and the sad story is seen by all. This sort of rudos behavior is making the blood boil not just in my hearts but in the hearts of many who see the bold spirit of Korea being attacked by terrors. South Korea declared attacks “not good” and the United Nations of America sent a letter to the terrors base in Saddy Arabia that “this is not the way to do business ladies”. Terrors say that they are making to cut off heads to get America to quit the big Iraq job but then American President Bush says “think again buster”.

For the sake of your sanity, please read today’s SomethingAwful update. It helps put everything in perspective.