Just testing the new Dano (any connection to this
guy? I love him and his
program) upgrade of blogger.
It sounded cool, but I only get the Lo-fi version on OS-X (both Safari and IE).
I was hoping that the "republish all" button would now work in Safari
(nope; gotta launch IE), and that there might be a working "blog this!"
button for it, too (same as above). But you can’t have everything, right? Such
is the report from the cradle of mankind.
If you ever read one edition of The
Note, read today’s. The archives are here,
and the date to which I am referring is, obviously, above (if you don’t see this
blog and follow through immediately). Lots of stuff about my favorite primary
dude, Dean.
And my latest bit of advice: if you do not have a Mac,
get one. If you are not running OS
X, do so. Once you are there, GET
SAFARI. It is the best and fastest browser I have ever worked with. Fan-bloody-tastic.
That’s it for today. I’m exhausted. Lecturing to art grad students on Object Oriented
Programming, and then trying to deal with South Africa’s horrible (but only) telecommunications
company can do that to, well, anyone…
too much going on and i am super beat. quickly: finally upgraded to OS X and i am loving it (though having issues installing/getting all the software i need). nicole, my better half, is working feverishly on a paper she is meant to give as part of a conference on AIDS (the conference, and her topic, are much more complex than that, obviously, but my brain is struggling to keep up with her) on may 6th; it will also be a chapter in her long-awaited dissertation, and i am more than thrilled to see her writing it again… i must get to work on a four hour lecture i have to give to 12 artists on object oriented programming on wednesday, for the digital media MA at Wits (there should be a link to the University of the Witwatersrand below somewhere; i am feeling lazy just now). gonna relate it all to Macromedia Director, but want them to understand the basics of high-level programming before they get started. it really does make it easier “to make things happen” in the long run. just ask Dan O’Sullivan.
don’t you just love scott westerfeld’s writing?
correction and apology
It was internet explorer, and not a blogger
template error, that was disallowing the resize on my blog frame(mentioned below).
I found a bug fix, and the page is now "all good." SO, I can still,
in very good conscience, highly recommend blogger
for all your daily posting needs. I am, however, still having email
issues.
today, technology is not my friend.
first off, blogger is totally
acting up; they weirded up my weblog template so that this frame is not resizing.
I’m hoping this, too, will pass. in the meanwhile, sorry to those of you viewing
my site on small screens. this is the second time i’ve had to say "blogger
is usually great." hmmmmm…
second, the internet broke at our place in Joburg; it took me all day to get online.
and third, now that i am online, my email, which has not been answered
in days and is already as clogged as my body (getting over the flu and
a stomach virus), is refusing to download new messages into my email app.
Sigh.
Won’t
somebody please remind me why i like these bloody machines?
Thanks to Johan, Melissa and Erika for each, individually, letting me know that
there was a bug on my site! It seems that after an attempted upgrade on my part,
certain browsers (unavailable to me) were showing a blank page as the end product.
Heavens me! The older version is back online, and I’ll try to find a different
way to accomplish my beautiful web-making goals in the near future. Please let
me know if you have any trouble with this site!
In other news, great stuff happening at the studio this week, and I can’t wait
to show some of the results online. Watch this space! Nicole, my better half,
and I are also planning a weekend getaway for our anniversary (coming up) at Gold
Reef City. Oh, the decadence.
Have we invaded Syria yet? When’s the next US regime change?