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Site News
6/23/07 - Put a lot of work into the site today, but I haven't accomplished quite all that I wanted. I read in this HTML FOR THE WORLDWIDE WEB Book by Elizabeth Castro (from like a kajillion years ago) about how to do Rollovers, which are what this front page has needed to make sense since forever. I thought I had them figured out. I don't.
9/24/06 - Scripts are groovy. It worried me that I'd changed the location of my blog again so soon, but then I realized I could probably find a script to put in there that would just redirect anyone going to that page to my new blog location, and they'd never even realize there had been a change (except, of course, for the completely different look. So I did a search for a script and someone had one all spelled out for me on a web page. Wah-hoo! So try visiting the old blog at www.thistoowillpass/blog and see what it gets you! You'll end up right back at bradydale.thistoowillpass.com, which is exactly where I wantcha! 9/23/06 - I've moved my blog again, but this will be the last time. now you can find the blog, from now on, at bradydale.diaryland.com, which is a pretty spiffy little name, I think. I hated Yahoo! 360, but now my blog is powered by WordPress. As far as I can tell, WordPress is the best system for blogging out there, and it's all shareware. Pretty neat. They even got into my host and installed it for me (well, an unaffiliated group of WordPress fans did, but whatever). I'm often skeptical about the whole OpenSource thing, but there are some great examples of it working really well out there. Code Developers are not like the rest of us, but I'm not complaining. 9/19/06 - The more popular pages now have META tags for keywords on them. If you feel really bored, you might go check them out (if you know how to, web geeks). You'll find most of them justified but some of them I threw in just to amuse myself, which probably undermined the whole effort and META tags as a useful tool in general. But that's how my mind works. So shoot me. 9/09/06 - I've moved my blog to this website. You can now find it here. Though the old entries will remain up on Diaryland for as long as that site continues on. I have also done some .css now, though it didn't work for me quite like I hoped. It seems to behave weirdly on Yahoo! Or I'm doing something wrong. It could easily be that, as well, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. 7/6/06 - My friend Sam Goldberg lent me an html book that's a lot better than the ones I had. Look for a site relaunch announcement at the end of the month. It won't be massive changes, but we shold have Cascading Style Sheets and rollovers on the front page, which will make the front page more useable. Very exciting. I just need to find time to do it, and I'm out of town this weekend. If you're on my email list, you'll get an announcement, don't worry. [yes, this is not actually news. It's news of news to come.] 6/26/06 - I found thistoowillpass.com listed on Google today. It took months and months for us to come up on there, despite lots of links to it around the web. Well, it's there now. FINALLY.6/10/06 - The site went through a long hiatus while my life went nutty. Sorry, legions of fans. I haven't quite sorted out a real commitment to the ether of the Internet yet. Hopefully the day will come. I'm coming back. It's been better lately, yes? 1/14/06 - One of my New Year's resolutions was taken from The Millions Blog in which he suggested that avid readers make a few notes on each book they read somewhere. So I'm going to start a new page on here that I don't really expect that many people to read, my book page. The first entry will be done in a few minutes. I finshed Anna Karenina today. The new translation that came out a year or so ago. It took my so long to write that I hope I am able to put together a thought or two about it. Anyway, this page is going to be more for me. I don't think it will ever be one of the main features of this site. In fact, I'm only going to link it from my links page, not even the main page. 1/7/06 - I added a link branding myself as an Underground Literary Alliance member this week, and I'm also linked on LitScene now. Hopefully that will yield some traffic, but who knows??? 1/02/06 - It's a new year and I'm doing a new round of site promotion. In the first month, the site got viewed a little over 200 times. Not much, but it kept coming steady, even when I wasn't pushing it. I only sent out about 100 emails about it today, but that's got traffic up a bit. No major changes in sight yet. I'm sorry homilies slowed in coming there for a while. The holidays and a lack of access screwed with me. At some point I need to completely revise the order that comes up on The Little Monk so that the most recent appears first. Grr. What a louse up. Most of the other major kinks have been worked out. I should think about a Cascading Style Sheet sooner rather than later. I'll need to understand what the hell it is first, though. My understanding goes this far: it would be a good idea. 12/18/05 - The site has been up about a week now. I was worried when I started the Little Monk subdirectory that I wouldn't be able to keep it regularly updated. I'm going for weekly on it, but it seemed hard. Granted, the whole idea of the cartoon is that I draw it when I'm in meetings that don't require me to speak. Well, this weekend I got to go to a LOT of those, so I'm three weeks ahead. Including the new one that just went up. I'll try to start putting a new one up every Sunday night. So set your clock by it. |