Archive: September 2005
Serenity
Saw Serenity with the kids. Happy now. Will there be another one?
WordPress - display contents of child pages in parent page
Woo-hoo! Solved one of the items below.
I have a parent page (Current Season), with three children. I created a custom template for Current Season using the information provided in this support thread, and I now have a beautiful page which lists all the concerts, rather than just links to each concert’s own page.
Fun with del.icio.us
As always, way behind the rest of the world.
I got frustrated maintaining bookmarks on multiple computers, and trying to keep track of my blogroll. del.icio.us to the rescue.
It also prodded me to finally incorporate my static pages into WordPress. I had been resisting because I really didn’t want to update the pages. A lot of [...]
WordPress as lightweight CMS
On a different note, I’ve redone the Cantabile Singers website using WordPress. It was originally hand-coded php.
Now it’s all WordPress static pages.
Features that would really be nice:
Some way to reference sibling or adjacent pages
The ability to mark a page as Draft. It turns out that as far as the database is concerned, everything is [...]
Contributing
This is cryptic to protect the guilty (not that the guilty in question would ever read this).
Sometimes you try to contribute to an organization, and it’s like nobody even notices. I told my daughter I felt like I was standing at the door knocking, and the people on the other side don’t hear it.
She said, [...]
Where’s an engineer when you need one?
The other day I park at work, whip the wheelchair out of the car, pop a wheel on, pop the other wheel on—wait, the wheel won’t go on. The axle goes in a little ways, then just stops. And it won’t come out again, either.
I shift over against the steering wheel to get some leverage, [...]
Free the browser!
For those of you who didn’t notice this earth-shaking event, Opera is now free. Even though my kids are now using Firefox, I am still stubbornly stuck to Opera as my favorite. So go try it.
Find-A-Human
Via Jill, a list of ways to shortcut automatic phone menu systems to find a human. Paste it next to the phone (oh wait - the phone knows how to walk away).
I find myself longing for phones that are tied to walls by wires, and a drive in gas station - imagine, you could drive [...]
Before and after
I’ve decided to post these so that I have something to look at when feeling depressed about body image.
Enforcing ADA
The September New Mobility has an excellent article on ADA suits (Small Claims, Big Victory). Unfortunately the text isn’t available online, but the opening paragraph explains what so many people do not understand:
Most people are aware that the Americans with Disabilities Act gives people with disabilities some rights, but that’s about where the general understanding [...]
So sad
My daughter just got a come-on in the mail from Tulane University, mailed from ZIP code 24581.
So sad.
Spiders
There are two large spiders living in my garage (there are probably lots more, but these are the ones I’ve noticed). They build orb webs that last about a week. Spider #1 seems to enjoy living dangerously; her web tends to be anchored to things like the bike rack and the garage door track. Spider [...]
College of Santa Fe
What a practical offer to Katrina victims: College students from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region are able to transfer to CSF and enroll for the fall semester as “visiting” students
Via Out of the Frying Pan.
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