I think it’s the second coolest date this year . . . the first being 01.02.03.
I think it’s so cool, I’m making a really stupid and pointless weblog entry, just so I can keep this date in my archives.
Many people who read this site using RSS feeds have complained at me that there are H3 tags around all my titles. Rather than respond to each e-mail directly, I’ll just put this here: I know, and it sucks. The thing is, I can’t seem to get the cascade order correct in my stylesheet (yeah, it’s on the list of things that DESPERATELY needs to be updated, along with most of the source for the site — but I’ve been, uh, working on other stuff 😉
If I could tell MT to make the .title class “large,” (and it actually *worked*) I wouldn’t need to use the H3 tags . . . but I swear, I just can’t figure it out. If anyone wants to offer some help, I’d be happy to take it, and you’ll be a hero to tens of RSS readers.
Good news and bad news on JAG.
Good news: the cover is designed, and looks amazing. I’ve been given some really kind and flattering quotes to put on it, and I think I have a really funny and insightful preface.
Bad news: It’s looking like the release is going to be pushed by a couple of weeks at best, maybe a month at worst. I am profoundly saddened by this fact, but I want it to be as good as it can possibly be.
“Dancing Barefoot” is still on schedule, though.
How about a thought for today?

“If sand were made of diamonds . . . they’d still call it sand.”

UPDATE: I spent some time looking through my awful stylesheet. I know it’s supposed to be all charming and everything, and empowering to feel like I’ve come a long way . . . but holy crap! I felt like I was watching myself in “The Buddy System” or “Liar’s Club,” or some performance of mine that makes me cringe. All I had to do was download the damn thing and look at it in vim (yeah! geek points! vim, baby!) to see what I’d done wrong. First, there was no .title class. MT provides it, but I’d managed to bork it out of the style-sheet at some point in time. So I added the .title class, and set the font-weight to bolder, and the font-size to 27px. (It’s the only value that’s set to px, btw.) Thanks to Danielle, who sent the font-size number, and to O’Reilly’s Cascading Syle Sheets: The Definitve Guide, which just paid for itself. 🙂
Update-Update spoke too soon. I broke the effing thing again. I think I must be setting up the cascade incorrectly.
UPDATE-UPDATE-UPDATE: It looks like everything is working, now. Hooray.