using tables to control layout since 2002

Spent much of yesterday making some tweaks to the look of this site. In general I'm trying to strip away excess visual clutter, deploying white space as a way to make the site clearer and more pleasant to read.

The version that's up now is sort of ultra-minimalist; I'm not sure if I'll leave it like this or tweak it a little bit more in the coming week. Any comments you might have are welcome.

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
6:02 AM
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hiatus

I'm off to my annual journey to New Hampshire for Spring, the conference / temporary autonomous zone / adult camp that I've been involved with for the last eight years. Consequently, all blogs will likely be on hiatus until mid-June.

Some of my photos from past Springs are available here, if you want to get some kind of idea of what I'll be up to.

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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
10:40 AM
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business / busy-ness

I've got shit coming at me from all directions this week, most centrally a pile of grading that's about the size of an unabridged dictionary, so the quietude that's afflicted this blog since I finished the big canon-making project will likely persist for another week or so. After that things will start wrapping up and I'll have a little more room to breathe.

If you're desperate for content, you could take a look over at my photos on Flickr: the nice weather of late has pushed me out of the house and into the city, and I've been making a lot of use of my camera to take pictures of, well, mostly trash and assorted disrepair. But if you like those kinds of things, there's lots of new pictures to look at. Try the Notebook on Cities for a taste.

Also, any readers of this blog who are in Chicago, or who can get here before 9 pm tonight, might want to come by to see me perform at the Lakeshore Theatre tonight with my band, Number None: we'll be debuting a new, as-yet-untitled piece. We're in the middle slot: Ben Vida will be opening, and Mike Tamburo will be wrapping the night up.

Labels: meta, number_none, personal

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
9:51 AM
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raccoon audio

I've decided to spin off the MP3 posts into their own blog, over at Blog*Spot: Raccoon Audio. The reason for this is mainly because I want to start getting indexed in the Hype Machine's database, and I thought they were more likely to index an all-MP3 blog than this one, which I think could comfortably be descrbied as "eclectic" in its focus.

MP3 posts will still be cross-posted here, so you don't need to do anything or even think about the new site unless you're only reading this blog for the music-oriented posts, in which case you might want to switch to reading that one, which has a nice syndication feed and all that jazz.

That's also the place to look if you want the whole top ten all in a single post, specifically here.

I took some liberties with the dates, don't look too close.

Labels: audio, meta, mp3s, music_commentary, personal

Thursday, February 08, 2007
10:38 AM
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So now, after a week of whirlwind activity (in which, among other things, I wrote a chapbook of 36 poems in 24 hours) I'm off to England, to join up with the other half of the Number None Mobile Unit for our micro-tour of the UK. UK readers of this blog, if there are any, consider checking out the tour dates on the Rebis page if you think you want to come out and see some ecstatic drone.

So anyway, although I might attempt some blog posts from the road, I think it's likely that updates here will be minimal until after August 11th, which is when I'll be returning home. Hope you're all well~

Labels: meta, number_none, personal

Friday, July 29, 2005
7:52 AM
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For the next three weeks or so I'm going to be up and down the east coast, trying to, you know, build utopia and stuff, which means that there won't be too many updates here during that time. I'm working on a review of the most recent Hwyl Nofio release (6/3 Update: this review is now up, at Thaumaturgy) but after that I've got no real big blog-plans until I get back, around June 21st. See you then.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
7:41 PM
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Expect updates to this blog to be scant for a while, as I will be spending the next two weeks at the Spring Conference in rural New Hampshire and the Young Adults Conference / Liberal Religious Adults Conference on the beautiful Star Island in the Isles of Shoals. I should be back on or around June 16th, and although I'll probably update the site between now and then, you should expect those updates to be little tweaks rather than big chunky blocks of new content.

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Tuesday, June 01, 2004
12:00 AM
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This weblog will be static until around June 8th.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2002
8:50 PM
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I'm currently in the midst of a "grab the summer by its horns" kind of week.

I turned in grades on Monday, and ever since then I have been sifting through odd heaps of accumulated stuff and sorting files, in an attempt to get my living space (and my headspace) organized.

This is a precursor to my summertime work, which (this summer) will mainly consist of revising and sending out fiction for publication. I've got lots of stored-up material that just needs to be submitted in a dedicated and consistent fashion.

Today I began major revisions on an old short story of mine, "Clip Art," which I plan to have out in the mail shortly.

But just in case you were wondering, yes, I'm still here, and, yes, I plan to keep updating this weblog regularly throughout the summer (not counting a short hiatus that will be coming up at the end of May).

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Thursday, May 09, 2002
3:20 PM
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So I've been trying to install Aaron Chan's CGIcomments on this weblog. This should be feasible: the hosting service that I use for this site seems able to run CGI scripts.

I don't know much UNIX, and I didn't have a secure shell client until today. But I used this tutorial to walk pretty closely through the various steps. Unfortunately, I'm still getting "Internal Server Errors" when I try those comment links, and I even get them when I try to run the simple test script I uploaded.

Which leads me to believe that there's something very simple that I'm doing wrong. Raymond's tutorial suggests that I might need to configure the Apache server to run CGI scripts. But can that possibly be an issue, given that my host offers full CGI ability even to people with basic dial-up accounts like myself?

I'd love insight from any of you folks out there who have more computer knowledge than I.

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Sunday, April 21, 2002
1:08 PM
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Recent search terms by which people have found my online serial, Imaginary Year, include:

• hypertext as narrative space
  
• puma monstro
  
• mom i'd like to fuck
  
• yogurt technology
  
• toyo ito
  
• losing your virginity
  
• imaginary poems
  
• cabbagetown and gentrification
  
• gutterpunk chick
  
• attack of the 50 ft woman paper
  
• architecture toyo ito
  
• american spirit cigarettes
  
• bottle fuck
  
• american spirit cigarette
  
• australian survivor theme download
  
• buffy, spike, fuck
  
• corona cervesa
  
• designer vagina
  
• breasts against the glass
  
• downloadable commercials and advertisements about sony
  
• aesthetics of disappearance
  

While this is a reasonably accurate cross-section, I can't help but feel that most of these people were probably disappointed.

Oh God I'm tired.

Labels: lists, meta, personal

Sunday, April 14, 2002
11:37 PM
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My friend Hannah is coming to town today. She will be here through Thursday, and I want to be a good host, so updates may be few and far between during that time. Until then, I leave you with this neat, minimal Flash animation by Yugo Nakamura (and collaborators).

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Sunday, March 10, 2002
12:24 PM
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opening incantation

A new year, new projects in the works, a new weblog.

Labels: meta, personal, projects

Monday, January 07, 2002
9:35 PM
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