Ch-ch-changes
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Originally I was just going to tweak the way I post an entry time stamp and the category an entry belongs to. Then, once I started tweaking the templates and massaging the CSS, I thought more radical surgery was in order. I wanted something different. It was a beautiful day
The Dead Pool began in September of 2000, a full year before the first blog entry. It wasn't really planned, I just thought it might be a fun little competition for me and my brothers. That page has been a part of the main navigation menu for this site ever
I'm trying out a plugin for Movable Type called Promote This!. It makes it easier to add quick links to add entries to Digg, del.icio.us, Furl, Reddit, Google, StumbleUpon and other social bookmarking sites. I'm now building these links here on the home page, on the permalink page,
I picked up TorontoMike.com yesterday. That domain name now resolves here at torontomike.com. Since I've adopted the moniker, it just made sense to buy it. Now I can act cool and tell people to contact dude@torontomike.com. Or asshat@torontomike.com or pimp@torontomike.com or you
Without failure, whenever there are rumours of a snowstorm, I get the same emails and instant messages from my mom. She wants to know how much snow we're getting and when we're getting it. For my mom, I made a little change to this home page. Beneath those photos on
As I enter my fifth year of blogging, I find myself 360° from where I began. In the beginning, I was writing for a few members of my family and a few friends. That was my audience and the stats proved it. I remember when I first saw the number
Whenever I update my pictures page, I archive older pictures on that page to a second page. Today, this second page refused to rebuild. I believe I've hit some sort of Movable Type limitation with regards to file size. That second pictures page was getting awfully big. Being the genius
I launched the Guest Blog service on November 16, 2003. At the time, this site was hand-coded without any CMS, and comments weren't accepted. A Guest Blog was an easy way to promote a sense of interaction. If you had something to say, you could say it. Now that this
I'm a big fan of RSS feeds. Using the Firefox add-on Sage, a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator, I stay up to date with my favourite blogs and news pages throughout the day. I have a favour to ask those of you who have already subscribed to my RSS
Before I forget and while there's a pause in the overtime action, there is now an RSS feed for comments made on this site. A request was made and I thought it was a pretty good idea. This new comments feed is at http://www.torontomike.com/comments.xml. The
I made a few modifications to this site to help people find what they're looking for. Some people like to track recent comments to see who's discussing what and where it's all going down. I've added a new column to the archives page that lists the fifteen most recent comments,
Last night I got that itch again. You know that itch you get when your blog has had the same look for months and months? I got it last night and by the time I logged off at 10pm my site looked like this. I'm still tweaking it, but so
It's been quite the week for this little site of mine. On Thursday, the company that was hosting this site suddenly realized I had blown past my bandwidth allotment for August. The thing is, I had exceeded my limit back on August 14. I just assumed it was a very
At some point early yesterday morning, the company that hosts this site realized I was way over my bandwidth limit. In a bold attempt to extract some more coin from me, they threw up a 509: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error and took me down for the remainder of the month.
The new look of this site is one week old tonight, but I hadn't given it a solid look in Internet Explorer until this morning. Sure, I gave it a cursury glance in IE to make sure the new code actually worked in the world's most popular browser, but my
On February 7th, I relaunched this site, powered by Movable Type. I went back and manually put all previous entries from 2006 into MT but I left entries from November 2002 through December 2005 in their original files. The plan, as I outlined it here, was to knock off one
It started innocently enough. Last night, at about 10:00 pm with the kids asleep and a little time on my hands, I decided to muck around with the css for this site. By 11:00 pm I was modifying templates and completely redesigning the side bar options. This afternoon,
Remember when I celebrated my new big ass web 2.0 font last month? Considering my Leaf recap will be detailing yet another loss, I'm thinking the smaller the font, the better. I'm back to 10 pt Verdana. I always seem to come back to 10 pt Verdana. I'm clearly
Now that I've made the move to Movable Type, I've got years of hand-coded archives I want to migrate over. This has to be done manually, one entry at a time. There thousands and thousands, dating back to November 2002. My intent is to bring over one month's worth of
Another benefit of moving to Movable Type is an automated RSS feed. I was manually maintaining the old one. The new RSS feed for this site is at http://www.torontomike.com/index.xml. Now we're cooking with gas.
I warned you more changes were coming. This is the biggie. For years I fought the push to implement a CMS solution. I derived a great deal of pride from hand-coding this entire site and ensuring it successfully validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Even the CSS and RSS feeds
Just last night I unveiled some changes to these pages. Judging from the immediate response, 12 point is just too big for you guys. Perhaps the jump from 10 to 12 was just too dramatic. I've dropped her back down to 11 point. It's still larger than it was yesterday
No, I haven't thrown a bunch of Ajax in the mix, but I did follow the lead of many so-called Web 2.0 sites and made a couple of changes to the aesthetics. For starters, I changed the font family from Verdana to Arial. That seems to be the way
For years the central tones of this site were blue and white. My blue of choice has been #000080 and I've splashed it all over these pages. The header and main menu, the <H1> tag, the entry dates and titles, all borders, the footer bar and even the
Some say an idle mind is the devil's plaything. I believe it's more correct to say boredom is the devil's plaything. I woke up this morning, took a look at the layout for this site and was bored. It's a fresh year and I'm thinking about a fresh presentation. I
