Comments on: James 2.5 Explained

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:38:46 +0000

Nah, I'm not doing anything fancy there. The most effort I've put into favicons is making the reference absolute rather than relative - in James 2, single-post pages lost the favicon because they're treated as being in a subfolder.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:18:08 +0000

Miniminibug: When live bookmarked on Win32 FF 2.0.0.12, the comments RSS items all display a generic blank page icon untiil visited, at which time they pick up the James logo. Frankly, getting the logo at all is the unexpected behaviour for me. I suspect that this is just some default in Wordpress and nobody cares; certainly I don't. But if you have poured heart and soul into your RSS icons, it hasn't worked.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:01:08 +0000

Hey, I wasn't rude. I only relayed your choice of number. If that seemed rude to you, perhaps the numbering system struck you as a crazy one only a crazy man who's crazy would think up. I don't know. Seniath: I think I'd have to see what it does at normal zoom to work out what needs fixing, if something needs fixing.

By: Tim E

Tim E — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:31:09 +0000

Hang on.

Third redesign of your fifth personal site, and you're calling it James 2.5. And you have the gall to be rude about my podcast numbering.

Damn you.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:46:18 +0000

Given that it's Linux, you probably just need to recompile your PoM.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:36:07 +0000

http://www.flickr.co... ...266020496/

That's how it looks on my windows machine, again zoomed out to -100%. As you zoom in, the middle section shrinks, while the side panels grow a little to accommodate, and everything looks fine. I can't recall what happened when zooming in on Linux, suffice to say it was messy.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:19:44 +0000

Killing For Jesus, my Action Quake 2 clan. I was the knife-thrower. My flatmate and I chose it as our ISP username since it was the only identity we could think of that we had in common.

By: Tentaculat

Tentaculat — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:04:16 +0000

Did the 'kfj' part of your old URL ever mean anything, or was it just complete randomness? I had always suspected that it was something obvious but that I was too thick to figure it out.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:37:43 +0000

Ayan, since you asked: var Stardate = new Date(); var StardateZero = new Date("May 25, 2322"); var Stardate = Stardate.getTime() - StardateZero.getTime(); var Words = new Array(" zero"," one"," two"," three"," four"," five"," six"," seven"," eight"," nine"); document.write(" It's stardate"); Stardate = Stardate / 3155760; Stardate = Math.floor(Stardate); Stardate = Stardate / 10; Stardate = Stardate + ""; if(Stardate.indexOf(".") == -1){ Stardate = Stardate + ".0"; }; for(i = 1; i <= Stardate.length; i++){ if(Stardate.substring(i-1,i) == "."){ document.write(" point"); }else if(Stardate.substring(i-1,i) == "-"){ document.write(" minus"); }else{ for(j = 0; j <= 9; j++){ if(eval(Stardate.substring(i-1,i)) == j){ document.write(Words[j]); }; }; }; }; document.write(", and this is the Notes section.");

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:24:45 +0000

Like genocide.

Ayan - I expect very few will actually use RSS instead of coming here. I use it for pretty much everything, but I have to keep reminding myself how widespread it isn't.

Are you asking because you're wondering why I put so much effort into the design of the site only to encourage people to read in a way that bypasses it entirely?

Because that would be a good question.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:13:11 +0000

Oh God. The notes on your Flickr shot, Seniath, say it's zoomed out -100%. I'm not sure how that works, but does that mean at normal zoom level is much too wide to fit on the screen?

Maybe it's interpreting my column widths as percentages rather than pixels. Although I'm not sure why the center one would be so wide - that's always relative.

This might be one of those problems I just back slowly away from, whistling.

By: Ayan

Ayan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:34:03 +0000

Perhaps answering this would be a violation of the prime directive, but I am curious- do you expect people will read the posts at James or on their Readers?

By: Seniath

Seniath — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:57:48 +0000

It would appear the above issue is only present on linux, it works find on my windows machine at home. Yay for standards =/

By: Ayan

Ayan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:55:22 +0000

Remind me how you managed to integrate stardates into your blog systems?

Also, I hope BlueHost paid you a sufficiently large lump sum for those paragraphs. (I may contact them.) Though I suspect your penchant for Blue may have offset part of your fee.

I approve of the new James design and specifications. If only I could find an acceptable rss reader..

By: Seniath

Seniath — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:31:49 +0000

Have you tried the new shiny in Opera? It somewhat...explodes in a very horizontal fashion;

http://www.flickr.co... ...264565359/

By: SenatorPalpatine

SenatorPalpatine — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:44:16 +0000

This site is the best... even more so now. Best site evar, http://www.pentadact.com!!!!!!!!!

(SEND ME MONIES)

No really though, it is good site. I started reading it rather late in it's life, so I can always go back and look at older stuff which is cool. Continue the coolness.

By: The_B

The_B — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:20:38 +0000

Man, you should totally start reviewing stuff such as Tescos Reduced Fat Cheese and Bacon Quiche again!

Next week, on James: Is it really M&S grilled chicken, or is it just leftover human remains? FIND OUT HERE.