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Entries from March 2006

Thinking too much; or, Manustupratio intellectualis

March 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Following up on an auto-intellectual experience …

An excellent example, from the UK
Tips for struggling with …
A Google search, for even more references

Tee-hee … I do that a lot … but the first one is rather over-the-top. I wonder if the author is serious, or just tongue-in-cheek.

Tags: Misc

Flowering Pears, redux

March 12th, 2006 · No Comments

The flowering pears come and gone, and I discovered a little validation annoyance with the original entry.
It turns out that WordPress(+Textile?) puts <p> tags in when you press <enter> a couple times … even if you use block-level markup (like the <blockquote> that I used to set off the poem). It invalidates any page where [...]

Tags: Textile

Textile? Nay—’Twas the theme

March 12th, 2006 · No Comments

So, it turns out that some of the more interesting effects I griped about were actually Mr. Roobottom’s RDC design decisions. I discovered this by changing themes to a more ornate one (currently on hiatus).
Live and learn; or, Check everything else (including presentation) before blaming the tool; or, Fix it yourself if it bothers you [...]

Tags: CSS · Textile

Testing, 1 2 3, testing

March 12th, 2006 · No Comments

As we see below, some things don’t look so good for Textile under WordPress 2.0 … or maybe it’s just my current theme. (I still [heart] you, RDC!)
Headers and simple (i.e. unordered) lists turn out okay, but more complex nesting and ordered lists are … well … not so nice. And, as we have seen, [...]

Tags: CSS · Textile · WordPress