Sat 11th Mar 2006
Ages ago, I wrote about how to (a) pass Pages through the Post template, and (b) use Smarty Tags in special Pages.
I had an Archives page, that had a list of every Post I’d ever made. It’s getting kind of long, so I wrote a script that parses this list, and creates a structured list, dividing the posts up according to the month they were published. It then makes this list so that you can hide/show a whole month’s worth of posts in one go.
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Sat 11th Mar 2006
I spent hours last night working on this, and a fair bit of time today. I think I’ve got it pretty good, now. See my Templates page for an example.
Now, instead of trying to get the data to appear immediately, which I could not do, I have four buttons that the user can select between the various template files, and it shows them in the <textarea> underneath.
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I bought Missing Sync for PalmOS - probably a bad decision as it’s not really that much better than the standard Palm Syncing software. Oh, it claims to be heaps better, but there are just too many things that don’t quite work right.
For instance, it makes duplicate entries on my Palm of Read-Only calendars. I use but one of these, that has all of the Australian Public Holidays in it. However, I’ve stopped syncing, as by the end of a month I have 30 copies of each holiday in the database. Not cool.
So, surely there’s a way (a-la iTunes/iPod syncing) to only choose some of the items. As it turns out, there is. If you select the Conduit (Events) and then Choose Settings…, you can choose to only sync selected calendars.
Except you can’t get at anything other than the first 4 calendars. The scroll bar in this window is broken. Makes it pretty hard to deselect the ones you don’t want.
I got around this by renaming my Holidays calendar to Aus Holidays, but I shouldn’t have to do this.
Sat 11th Mar 2006
Now, I’m not talking here about using the “Show Source” feature of a Web Browser. Anyone worth even a quarter of a pinch of salt knows how to do that. What I’m trying to do is display the source of a web page as text/plain within another web page. This is so I can have a current version of my template available on a page of my blog. I’ve put a version up that I need to update, and I make so many changes to the template this is unsustainable.
Under Blogsome, the template files can be found in the /templates/ directory, and there are four of them: index.html, wp-layout.css, post.html and comments.html. Of these, only wp-layout.css is a plain text document, the rest are (naturally) text/html.
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Don’t even get me started on the inanity of young people these days.
The latest, and stupidest thing I just heard during an ad break in Video Hits (I despise their latest look, btw):
Get your personal Chinese symbol sent directly to your phone!
Just SMS “c” plus your year of birth, for example 1980, to 19 XX XX.
This is just wrong on so many levels. For christ’s sake, every person born in the same year as you, which is probably most of your stupid little friends from school, has the same symbol as you. That’s hardly a personal symbol.
Secondly, is the company seriously suggesting that it’s customers are so stupid as to require an example of what a year looks like?
But then, these people will quite happily pay $4 to send a text message, and receive in return a sampled down version of a song on their mobile phone, rather than pay $1 to download it legally, and then use some simple software to convert it to a format suitable for use on said phone. And then probably only use it as their ringtone for about a week, before repeating the process.
