Monday, March 18, 2002

Rewriting history Now I'm faced with a dilemma; do I go back and edit my previous entries to reflect what I've learned about formatting and titling? That would make them easier to read. But it would also erase the "historical record"; some of the entries address the formatting problems I react to in later entries. I guess I'll leave them as-is. Mostly because I'm lazy. 5:30:34 PM

Titles considered helpful Yikes, I just scanned this page as it appears in the blog itself (as opposed to this slightly different desktop page). My interface shows much better discrimination between individual posts; the blog interface runs everything together into one long gray column. Titles are clearly called for, as well as (maybe) some changes to the template applied to each post. And my categories don't seem to have any effect on my blog itself; can they just be for outgoing syndication? I want to offer category views on the blog home page. There must be a way... I wonder if this is a problem with the template I chose? Boy, Blogger is sure easier to set up, and the templates are easier to manipulate. (I know, I know, Radio has ten times the features. But I find I prefer simple interfaces. Heck, I even prefer vi to emacs.) 5:27:13 PM

I've written some illustrated letters, although not in a long time. I started, I think, when I was in California and my daughters were in Connecticut. The exhibition below shows that (to nobody's surprise) some illustrated letters vastly exceed my abilities. But while they focus on the letters themselves, I'm remembering how engrossing and fun was the process of creating the letters. Perhaps I haven't written any like that in so long because of the time it took...but it was great. Probably better than getting one of my letters! Getting The Picture: The Art Of The Illustrated Letter. Often the expression of joy or affection, illustrated letters represent an irrepressible urge to picture language... [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE] 5:19:05 PM

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