I’ve wanted to add this for a while: Now, individual post pages have a box below the post listing others that relate to it, based on tags. The sort order is based on the number of matching tags (more is better) then on the posting date (newer is better). Feedback on this feature is welcome.
I have a weak spot for the “Cool URIs don’t change” philosophy. Most of my personal web projects from the ’90s are still online. Some of them have been unchanged for ten years. My very first multi-page site, which I called “Ersatz Info-Rama”, is still up. I last updated it on December 31, 1995.
There are some classic links in there – the first tutorial on animated GIFs; the “scary” new search engine, altavista.digital.com; even some gopher resources.
A few years ago I started collecting Google searches that uncovered common web authoring mistakes or hosting snafus. You won’t believe how many pages on the web are titled “Welcome to Adobe GoLive,” for example. Amaze your friends and scare your clients with other examples from the full list.
Readers, I know you’re out there. At this early stage in my blog’s life I’m getting about a thousand unique visitors a day – not big by any means, but when I watch my logs I do get a bit of that hosting-a-party sensation. I know only a tiny fraction of visitors will ever comment, and that’s as it should be. But I really enjoy getting comments.
So, don’t be shy.
Each time you visit the randomly selected Shakespearean sonnet page, you’ll see one of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. If you don’t like the one you get… reload! There’s also a search box so that you can narrow the possibilities down to, say, the two sonnets in which he uses the word “snow”.
The page is currently the #4 hit on Google for the phrase “Shakespearean sonnet.” It’s a little sad that so many of the substantive web pages on Shakespeare’s poetry don’t rank higher than my cheap parlor trick!
After a little over three months I’ve crossed the hundred-post mark. Averaging around a post a day hasn’t been hard at all, and blogging is proving to be a fun way to return to regular writing. My thanks go out to everyone who has been reading (I’m sure someone has) and commenting. I do it all for you. OK, I do it mostly for me, but I do think of you sometimes.
As seen recently on the Generator Blog (watch out for annoying popup ads) and Metafilter: ungreek.toolbot.com.
For years, designers have been using fake Latin gibberish known as greeking (or sometimes lorem ipsum, after the customary initial words) as a text placekeeper. It conveys the shape and “color” of text without the distraction of actual content.
Source options include the Esperantists’ Manifesto, Jane Eyre, the Tao Te Ching, the GNU Public License (in Swedish), Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida,” Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” Internet RFC 1630 by Tim Berners-Lee, and good old Lorem Ipsum.