licentious radio

Thursday, January 31, 2002
[4:15:47 PM]

I'm skeptical of the calendar. Say the front news page has a week's worth of posts on it. Is a reader going to remember the date of any posts they might have read before that? It seems to me to amount to a traffic indicator. Everyone can see at a glance the day-frequency of my posts. That doesn't seem to benefit me much. I'd even call it value-subtracting, to the author. I might not want it to be so obvious that I rarely post, or that I missed a day, or that I was out of town for a while.

I'd probably treat the calendar as a "search by date" feature, and *not* put it on the front page.

I wonder if you could get away with using font weight or color to indicate how much text was posted on that date. I don't think I would want to look at that ordinarily, but if I were trying to find a particular post, it might be useful. Javascript and css could let you click a button, and it would do the colors.

[3:58:54 PM]
The demand for Bush jokes continues to climb. I'm doing my best, people!

Bill Clinton's teacher: Billy, you're from a poor and disadvantaged home, but you're smart as a whip and you can be charming when you set your mind to it. The United States is a great country, where even someone like you can grow up to be president, if you just work hard and keep your nose clean....

George Bush's teacher: George, you're dumb as a stump, and lazier than a drunken small-town sheriff, but you're rich. The United States is a great country, where even someone like you can grow up to be president, if you just sell enough favors and have your daddy appoint the Supreme Court....

[Statement of Political Correctness: the publisher doesn't really believe all drunken small-town sheriffs are lazy. This is just a joke.]

[3:55:47 PM]
Is there a bug reporting mechanism around here? I'm not up for tracking the yahoo discussions.

A bug, or at least a wrong dependency.... When I start radio, the web server doesn't start until after I cancel a "where is internet explorer" dialog. I'm using the browser interface from a different computer. It's not like this is a big problem, but maybe there aren't many people who've stumbled across it. I'd take the time to type it into a database for future reference, if there were a database.

[3:48:55 PM]
That's weird. The page layout of the radio pages changed -- the graphics came back.