Yoz Grahame's Unresolvable Discrepancy

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Where the hell I’ve been for the past couple of months.

Posted: October 23rd, 2002 | 3 Comments »

At home, doing very little.

Okay, there’s a bit more to it than that, but I’ve discovered that I have a fantastic tendency to bottleneck on stupid dependencies; in this case, my
Burning Man page. I said I wouldn’t do anything else until I’d done it, and I never did it. I just had some major mental block about doing it, which was particularly stupid since it’d be much easier this year since there’s much less to link to, since I don’t have any pictures of my own, since my camera went missing.

Anyway, after a month or so I realised this was a stupid bottleneck, and so shifted to a far more fun bottleneck, which was completely redesigning my blog. Here it is. Lovely, isn’t it? I was practically done with it as two blogs on one page, linked by SSI, until Nick pointed out a far better way of doing it using categories, which was particularly annoying since not only did I have to redo my templates but I’d already thought of that solution and forgotten it.

But the fact that you’re reading this shows I must have got through those bottlenecks somehow. I haven’t even updated by Burning Man page yet. (Well, I might have done by the time you read this.)


3 Comments on “Where the hell I’ve been for the past couple of months.”

  1. 1 Phil said at 11:09 pm on October 23rd, 2002:

    Welcome back Yoz!
    About bleedin’ time!
    And I like the new look. Business-like but fun! Not sure about the ‘etc’ box though – gets a bit lost. Maybe make it the same white-on-red as the ‘Leader’ box? Otherwise… smooth!

  2. 2 She said at 1:02 am on October 24th, 2002:

    I’m just glad you made this other side as well, I’m too ignorant to understand all your tech-talk.

  3. 3 Tim said at 10:57 am on October 26th, 2002:

    My God! It’s full of Content!
    Well, sort of. You still need to sort out the left margin though – did I mention that? :-)
    It seems you have mastered the use of CSS to render different line dash patterns though…hurrah!

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