Current and Future Changes. (Meta-Post)
Okay, you may notice a bit of a change over on the sidebar. I don't usually point those out, but I put too much effort into this bit not to talk about it, okay? Anyway, over to your right you may notice a new heading where most of my links used to be. That would be my new Link Roulette script. Finding it was the hardest part, (Link to the place I got it is down below the footer, by the way) but modifying it to do exactly what I want took some time too. The principle behind it is, this way I can put up as many links as I like without cluttering the sidebar. Plus it gives people some small incentive to stick around, if for no other reason than to see what all is in there. To start with, I've only got my four main resource sites, but I'll be adding much more fairly soon.
(As an aside, the Workshop really proved it's worth on this one. As good ol' Nigolos over at Undead-Karma saw not too long ago, tinkering with the core of your blog can have some... unfortunate results on occasion. With the Workshop, if things happen to go pear shaped, I can hit the reset button and not lose anything.)
At any rate, aside from adding more material into the Roulette I should be done with fiddling with my side bar. The Big Three will remain as they are, with the only possible exception being if Chard starts updating with any regularity (yes, I know, I'm not one to talk), then I may have to make it into a Big Four. Honestly, and this is where the 'future' part of the title comes in, I'm seriously considering doing away with the sidebar entirely. It kinda bugs me that, no matter how uncluttered and simple I keep my sidebar, it still takes up about a third of the width of the screen at 1024x728 resolution. That's a lot of real-estate for something that's really just an aside. I'm not sure what exactly I want to do or how I'm going to doing it yet, though. And I'm really not up to the task in terms of energy or, frankly, skill right now, so it'll be a while before that goes down.
As for the actual content of this blog, well, the fact of the matter is I haven't come across much that I can write about. I didn't want to do this so soon, but I may have to start digging into some of my older stuff to find anything to talk about. I'll keep y'all posted.
Update!
Okay, I've got all the links in that I really feel should be there. If anybody runs into any trouble with the script, lemme know. Email addy is in the footer.
(As an aside, the Workshop really proved it's worth on this one. As good ol' Nigolos over at Undead-Karma saw not too long ago, tinkering with the core of your blog can have some... unfortunate results on occasion. With the Workshop, if things happen to go pear shaped, I can hit the reset button and not lose anything.)
At any rate, aside from adding more material into the Roulette I should be done with fiddling with my side bar. The Big Three will remain as they are, with the only possible exception being if Chard starts updating with any regularity (yes, I know, I'm not one to talk), then I may have to make it into a Big Four. Honestly, and this is where the 'future' part of the title comes in, I'm seriously considering doing away with the sidebar entirely. It kinda bugs me that, no matter how uncluttered and simple I keep my sidebar, it still takes up about a third of the width of the screen at 1024x728 resolution. That's a lot of real-estate for something that's really just an aside. I'm not sure what exactly I want to do or how I'm going to doing it yet, though. And I'm really not up to the task in terms of energy or, frankly, skill right now, so it'll be a while before that goes down.
As for the actual content of this blog, well, the fact of the matter is I haven't come across much that I can write about. I didn't want to do this so soon, but I may have to start digging into some of my older stuff to find anything to talk about. I'll keep y'all posted.
Update!
Okay, I've got all the links in that I really feel should be there. If anybody runs into any trouble with the script, lemme know. Email addy is in the footer.
posted by Mr. the Tiger at 18:41
4 Comments:
I tried the "Link Roulette" - so far I've gotten Google each time.
I like the concept though - it may become a bad habit for me like clicking the "Next Blog" button on the tool bar.
In the end you just never know where you'll end up at.
okay - I feel a little stupid now, a common occurance on some days.
Just needed to refresh the screen to see the next Roulette link. for some reason I thought you had stumbled onto a code that randomly shot you out once you clicked on the link.
Either way looks like fun.
Well, I suppose I could do that, but I figured it wouldn't be very nice of me to send people off without some clue about where they're gonna end up
and so we find just how deep the rabbit hole goes, eh alice?
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