Our Sausage Hosting account is finally closed. LunarPages is so much nicer to deal with.
Marylin and I are working on the next iteration of her website. The graphics are proving tougher than I thought.
Well, since I'm still waiting for images for the new site, apparently that's not going to happen. Not good. But what is good is that it got me moving again. I've been working on my CSS and I'm about ready to put Marylin's page in to another iteration.
I've added a new site on my site's page. It's only in first revision, so changes are inevitable. I'm waiting for images and feedback.
This site has undergone a few changes. Not a great deal, but it's been compressed a bit and the color helps.
The problem with the drop in hits on Marylin's Transplant Page is mostly resolved. All links on the old page were directed to the new page. Originally, I had only done this on the index page. Later I discovered that most people were not coming in on the home page, but one of the new pages.
Still experiencing about a 75% drop in hits comparing the new site to the old. Hopefully, this will resolve itself in time. I added a print.css to this site.
I solved the problem with the huge drop in page hits. It turns out that most people enter Marylin's site through a search and rarely get to the home page. To fix this, I updated the libraries so that no matter what link was clicked on the old site, it took you to the corresponding link on the new site. The results were very positive and very quick. I hope to start working on Marylin's database next week for her genealogy site.
Good news! Marylin's Transplant Page has been completely moved to its new area at Marylin's Transplant Page.com. Check it out. I am a bit disappointed with the large drop in page hits. Hopefully this will correct itself in time.
Long story short: it's summertime, I've got house projects, so this little will be done with this site before Fall.
Still updating Marylin's site. I'm up to the letter N. The laundry room floor is half done; other than touchup, that room is done. Once Marylin's site is done, I'm going to do a genealogy site for Marylin using PHP and MySQL.
Today is Memorial Day. I've sptnt last night and this morning thinking of my old friends who didn't make it back with me. I miss them.
Marylin's site is slowly progressing; I expect it'll take me at least another month. My significant event for the week is that I lost another tooth. This one had a cap and no pain. But decay set in under the cap and while everything looked good on the outside, the inside was a mess. This is the second tooth I lost and it depresses me. Hopefully, this will spur me to take better care of my teeth.
Finishing up a week of call and very glad of that. Still working on the bathroom and laundry room. Marylin's site is still being updated. I've had a couple of ideas for web sites.
Mother's Day and all is well. My son's team at the Academic Meet took first in the state in their class yesterday and I'm very proud. He's a very intelligent young man and I love him very much.
Outside weather is here again and I spent the day outside. Marylin's site continues to be updated, but at the same slow pace.
The bathroom and laundry room are now painted. I go on call tomorrow so not much will happen this week.
The weather got cold, after the really warm weather two weeks ago. I'm converting Marylin's site to sections updateable with Dreamweaver libraries. I tried Dreamweaver templates, but when you want to make a template change, you still have to manually strip out the article. It's a slow process. I'm doing five to ten articles a day.
The bathroom and laundry room are ready to be painted tomorrow. My wife is ecstatic. I'm ok.
Slow going on updating Marylin's page, but it is coming along. On this site, only more random quotes have been added. Still working on the downstairs bathroom and bicycle season is upon us.
I've done another set of modificaJanuary 7, 2007ar with that site's redesign. Since I have so many other things going, it will take me several months to completely update the site.
Up early, about 5am, working on this random text generator. It's very picky, but now it works. See the quote of the day, only on the index page.
As browsers go, I much prefer Fire Fox. My son used it first and convinced me of its vast superiority to Internet Explorer; he was right. I downloaded an extension to Fire Fox that adds an HTML Validator to the status bar. Much to my surprise, when I checked my pages I was getting a consistent four errors. Something was inserting two javascript lines, one before the closing head tag and the other past the closing html tag, where nothing should be.
After much investigating on Google, I found that this is a known problem with Zone Alarm Pro. There is currently no fix, only a workaround. The privacy settings must be temporarily disabled when uploading. This problem also apparently is what was keeping a few of my images from displaying. So now this site is fixed and Marylin's Transplant Page is slowly being updated.
I've spent the week pretty much slowly bringing Marylin's Transplant Page into xhtml 1.0 strict compliance. I'm going over each page individually, looking for small errors, so it's a slow process.
Today is my brother's birthday, his 53rd. In some ways, my brother and I are very much alike. We are very stubborn, opinionated, prone to detail, and tend to keep to ourselves. Both of us are dissatisfied with our jobs. We don't look much alike. My brother is taller, thinner and stronger. His hair is thinner, mine is grayer. I've managed to quit smoking; he hasn't. He inherited the drinking problem of our grandfathers. He's never been divorced. We don't get along.
That's kind of a family trait. My father is constantly complaining that my sister and my brother don't call him. For a man that never used to talk to us, he's never short of words now; unfortunately, they're almost always about himself. I never realized until recently how spoiled he is.
I didn't realize it's been so long since I made an entry on this site. I decided I would convert Marylin's Transplant Page to valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and that has proved to be a lot of work. I made a shell that works and have noticed small errors on pages that were done over the years. So, I decided to do each page one at a time and verify that it is compliant to the Strict DTD as it's posted. Since there are over 500 pages, I'm doing about 10 per day. I'm also completely gutting the downstairs bathroom and bringing it into the twenty-first century. Lots of work, but I'm rarely bored.
On Marylin's Transplant Page, 13 pages of news article are held together by tables. One of my goals has always been to update these pages with CSS. Now the prototype is done. Check out Neo Transplant There are no tables in the center section. The titles are held together using floating divs. I think it not only looks better, but is in keeping with my moving the site into full CSS compliance.
My wife and I both have the flu. What a drag.
I'm having trouble contacting Sausage Hosting, the host for Marylin's Transplant Page, to move it into a subdomain of this site. I don't let Sausage slow me down. Besides updating articles at least three times per week, I've just added a CSS horizontal navbar at the bottom of every page.
On this site, I've validated the site with the W3C and passed! I'm very proud of that.
I've been on call this past week and I've got a mild case of the flu. Between the two, I haven't had any time to speak of. Hopefully, next week will be better.
My time for the Hancock Hustle was 18:03, not nearly as good as I thought. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to train harder for next year.
I did the 42 floor Hancock Hustle this morning! The time is not yet known, but I'm sure it's better than last year, when I did just over 19 minutes.
An interesting form of Christianity, very Zen like. The Irish heretic, Pelagius, and his followers absolutely rejected the doctrine of our inheritance of the sin of Adam and Eve, and taught that we have finally no need of supernatural grace, since our nature itself is full of grace; no need of a miraculous redemption, but only of awakening and maturation; and that, though the Christian is advantaged by the model and teachings of Christ, every man is finally (and must be) the author and means of his own fulfillment. Courtesy of Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, Creative Mythology.
Finally got the site up yesterday! Everything appears to work well. Now I just need to get my other site moved over here.
Up early again, the last day of vacation. I'm happy with this new site. I have almost everything I need in place here; I just need to rework my resumes for content and presentation.
I woke up thinking about change. Change is generally slow. Change is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Without change, stasis occurs. Stasis is death. Of course, change too, can be death.
In the physical sense, change is always occurring, even though it is on a microscopic level. As I grow older, cells change and a once dark hair now becomes gray. This has happened often on my body. My once salt and pepper hair is now mostly salt.
When I look in the mirror and see this overweight gray haired man, I sometimes wonder who he is. He sure as hell is not the person I see in my mind when I think of myself.
Up at 5, I worked quietly, trying not to wake Marylin. I wasn't as quiet as I had hoped. She pretended not to wake up and I pretended to be quieter.
In Galena, on a short vacation, and still working on web sites! Will my wife ever forgive me?
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