I've had a web site running continuously since late 1994/early 1995.
I can tell you it's a real mess under the hood!
I've had a web site running continuously since late 1994/early 1995.
I can tell you it's a real mess under the hood!
Hasn't anybody heard, "If it's brown, flush it down; if it's yellow, let it mellow"?
Older toilets here use 3.5 gallons a flush, newer ones 1.6 gallons. It's not so much a matter of saving money, because water is very cheap in the U.S., but saving water. If you don't think this is important, someone who lives in Atlanta might give us their opinion.
We're getting a demo in a couple weeks, after I am back to work from a bit of surgery. Will post an update here, then, just for sh*ts and giggles.
My employer has decided to homogenize all web sites across their system. Rather than providing web templates, they are going to have every department/unit transfer all of their web content into a content management system called Typo3. Units will have no control over headers, footers, and main navigation.
The folks in charge (marketing people, not designers or even ITS people) say it's just "cut and paste." Obviously it's not, as all the navigation will have to be re-done, and the new "look" utilizes web pages 300 px narrower than full-screen, which is my current format. And yes, they have implemented this without providing support in the way of manpower. I have to do it myself.
My concern (at least, that which I'll air here!) is two-fold:
1) It will take forever and a lot of work to move my 290 page web site, which includes another 1000 files (image, other media) into Typo3. I started this site in 1995 by hand-coding, and like a house that keeps getting added onto by an amateur contractor, it's pretty messy under the hood (er, roof). My duties have multiplied over the years to the point where I do maintenance and regular updates, but have had no time to even begin using CSS!
2) Like the last 2 web redesigns they've done, they may decide they don't like it and in 2 years we'll all be moving to yet another web editor/CMS/whatever.
So, anyone with experience with Typo3? What am I in for? If it is abandoned, does that mean re-formatting/writing/coding the whole damn site again? Is a CMS really the way for a huge organization to handle web sites?
Thanks for any insight!
A lot of 9rulers did this in the old Clubhouse forum. I'll submit a newer photo:
This makes my breasts look huge. This is good or bad, depending on how I'm feeling on a particular day.
Ford Escape Hybrid. Love it.
I'm up for Best Science Blog (Bootstrap Analysis). Have no expectation or burning desire to win, but would like to not be too embarrassed, so long as ya'll are tossing votes around.
Yes, I agree...balut. I'd rather eat a grub.
I could be the mother of 63% of the people in this thread! 44.
I did it for both my 9rules sites, which both have to do with the environment, in a way.
At Coffee & Conservation, I posted on the 5 top actions coffee drinkers can take to help the environment, and got a modest amount of traffic as a few unrelated sites linked to it.
At Bootstrap Analysis, I wrote about how birders can help have a say in areas that are developed by using the data they collect to contribute to public comment periods. I really liked the coffee post better, but someone Stumbled this post, and I got a huge amount of traffic.
Because I signed up at the Blog Action Day web site early on, I actually got more hits from their web site BEFORE the day, because my blogs were on their front page of participants.
The list of pink ribbon-wrapped products grows every year. Before you impulsively buy one of these products in the belief that your money is going to breast cancer, Breast Cancer Action urges you to “think before you pink”—and ask these critical six questions.
Also discussed here.
17 billion catalogs are mailed annually in the U.S., <5% contain post-consumer recycled material, and most get at least some of their virgin fiber from the boreal forest. Great new free service, run by 3 non-profits, help you get off catalog mailing lists. Much easier than doing it yourself.
@Josh: Quite complicated. My background is in journalism, banking, and telecom. In my late 20s, I decided to go back to school & get a degree in Environmental Studies. For my internship, I served at a bird observatory in New England, and it made me realize I shouldn't have frittered away so many years in the business world, when my entire life I loved birds and ecology. I started up a bird monitoring program back at school, and never left. Here is my life's work, so far: the Rouge River Bird Observatory.
For many years, I always thought it would end, as I have to raise all the money for my own salary, plus do the field work, admin, publications, etc. The fact that I never got a graduate degree is really haunting me now, because I'm facing bias in grant funding and peer-reviewed publications.
The moral of this story is, I guess, follow your heart and do what you love and what has meaning for you. But try to plot a practical and realistic course down said road!
@Tyme & Josh: Thanks. It is interesting, although I've seen more than enough sunrises and been crapped on by more species of birds than I care to admit.
This is an old problem that hasn't been resolved. Maybe it can't by the Rulers, and somebody out there can tell me if I can fix it.
Both my 9rules sites are Typepad blogs. The feeds linked here are Feedburner feeds. But all my posts show up here at 9rules dated one week ago. And they always have. This obviously puts my posts at the bottom of the heap.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
I'm an ornithologist, and get up hours before dawn. I have coffee, check emails, my news and blogs feeds in a reader, and other computer tasks for an hour. During spring and fall migration I band migratory birds, so once I get to work, I have to set up my field site at dawn. My typical day at "the office" is outlined here.
You'll probably find my routine wildly different than anybody else here!
Just a reminder that even organic matter like grass clippings can take years to degrade in a municipal landfill -- you put stuff in a plastic bag, it gets tossed in with other bags, buried under a layer of clay and soil, no oxygen. Throwing away food scraps is just like throwing away plastic as far as landfill space goes.
Toronto's fans are pretty enthusiastic. I know, Ohio isn't too exciting. Columbus is just the most easily accessible for us, much as I'd rather go to Chicago or Toronto. We have a minor league team here too (Michigan Bucks) which plays MLS teams every once and awhile.
It was my understanding the connection to world peace was the threat climate change has to create conflict and war in the event of resource shortages, the redistribution of populations due to desertification and rising sea levels, etc.
The definition of "peace" has become more flexible. Past winners have included Doctors Without Borders, anti-landmine groups, etc. List here.
The U.S. has a long way to go to get as festive as other countries. Last year we went to the Mexico-U.S. World Cup qualifier in Columbus, OH (our closest fix to an MLS city) and it was still pretty subdued. My husband regularly travels to Germany and sees games there. They routinely set seats on fire, etc. Somewhere in between fast asleep and pyromania would be nice here, I think.
Anybody catch the Dallas vs Chivas MLS game last night? It was wig night, and Dallas handed out long, flowing wigs in "honor" of Juan Toja. It was pretty funny seeing cameramen, announcers, assistant coaches, etc. with these crazy wigs on.
I'm always amazed at the startling variety of hair styles in professional soccer. Or even on David Beckham.
Papua New Guinea.
I agree with jonshoe. This season seems a little strained to me.
What it is, how it works, and user tips.
Every method brings out something different in coffee. When we do reviews at Coffee & Conservation (www.coffeehabitat.com), we always prepare in both a French press and an auto drip. There's also a cool little device called an Aerobie Aeropress which I travel with.
$415. This is a little biased towards men (strippers and cross-dressing being more likely for them). We need a bonus for women, and "Unprotected sex with a stranger" wipes out all gains.
Gmail Manager
TinyURL creator
Clippings (saves and manages frequently-entered text)
Resizeable Form Fields (resize HTML form fields, including textareas, select boxes, text fields, and iframes)
Highlighter
Screen Grab
Cite Bite (formerly Deep Quote) (creates links to specific text on any web page)
I'd recommend Lulu, also, unless you are a fabulous writer with some very marketable idea. If you want to go with a regular publisher, you'll have to do a detailed proposal, negotiate a contract, stick to deadlines. I've done it, it's a hassle.
Ugh, no way. My boss is a senior citizen, a tenured professor who will never retire. It would kill him.
Hmmm. On second thought...
I'm in the Borrowed Time Zone. No, wait -- GMT -5 (North American Eastern Time), as well.
"Your brother had a heart attack, and there was nothing we could do."
"Will you marry me?"
"Bienvenido a La Habana."
The impacts of the first two are obvious. The last -- I've done environmental work in Cuba 4 of the last 6 winters. What I have learned there about people, myself, and life has profoundly changed me.
New member alert! Sorry I'm late to the party, but was at a middle-aged friend's wedding (you know, the kind where there are offspring from previous marriages, we dance to what are now referred to as "oldies", and everyone vacates the reception before 11 PM).
I'm another child of 1962, first blog into 9rules in 2005, second in the last round.
I also really liked Sarah Moulton, and I dig Alton Brown. I cannot stand Bobby Flay. What a dork.
The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006 (http://www.lulu.com/content/631016) just came out, and the story behind it is here. I have a post in it, and I've read many of the other 49 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics and there's some great stuff in there! I think these types of projects are a great idea, and even more targeted/topical science blog anthologies seem to have good potential to spark public interest in science, if done correctly.
» Favorite Sushi ... Last Reply: 7 months ago by dieseldelicious.
Nigiri: Freshwater eel. Roll: Salmon skin, hand roll. I'm pretty willing to try most sushi, as I really love it, but there are so many fish (including really good blue fin tuna) in which the fisheries are so depleted I won't eat them.