Laurabelle's Blog

I should have been working this morning and last night, but instead I played with my Movable Type templates and plugins. Now the sidebar of my main index page includes a list of active plugins. In addition, that list includes a couple of plugins that would not have been there last weekend, most notably OnThisDay, [...]

I've got a new format for my blog-entry footer: [ Posted at $TIME | Permalink | Comment | Filed under $CATEGORIES | TrackBack $URLLINK ($URL) ] I made the change mostly because I noticed that I get very few trackbacks, and it occurred to me that maybe it was because my trackback-inna-link implementation is non-standard [...]

A student on the ichat mailing list posted today about an interesting post on a lawyer's blog about the safeness of weblogs. Are you a young professional, excited that your blog gives you the freedom to speak out to a large audience? Well consider what a smaller and more powerful audience (i.e. your employer) might [...]

Okay, people, too many of you are using Internet Explorer. Yeah, I know it's the most common browser, and it's conveniently already installed on your computer, and I also know that some of you don't have control over the computers you use, but it's broken. If you can, you really should switch to a more [...]

On January 15, 2004, when this blog turns 1 year old, its birthday present will be this, or perhaps this. Of course I've posted far from every single day, so I'll have to combine it with this so it doesn't look silly, but oh, do I want that plugin! The ironic thing is, I've been [...]

I finally woke up to reality, reality being that I'm only posting things to my really librarian-themed blog about once every two months, librarianship being so tied up in my everyday life that it's hard to make a real separation. So this morning I said oh what the heck, dinked around with the database a [...]

Not much in particular to blog about. I had a good weekend, but I'm rather wondering when I'll find time to do all the things I have to and/or want to, and what will get dropped when push comes to shove. Internship starts tomorrow morning. In weblog news, I somehow have snagged a link from [...]

The other week I decided I'd go ahead and upgrade Movable Type on my library blog, since I'd already done it on this blog, and it had worked fine, and there were so many fun plugins to use. So I got cocky and didn't make a backup. Accordingly, MT broke quite seriously. The problem appears [...]

Yesterday Maggie said her browser (Netscrape 4 on SunOS) was borking on text/xml. So I tried to fix that and, of course, managed to break things that were working before. Phoenix at least seemed to be loading the site normally, but IE was displaying raw XML, and it didn't seem to have any content-type at [...]

Note (16 June 2004): Not only has my library-blog been defunct for over a year, but the University of Washington is going to delete my webspace in a few months. Therefore, I have removed the link to that blog from this post. You may have noticed that my blogroll contains a link to Laurabelle the [...]