C++, PHP, C, HTML, ARM ASM, CSS, TCP, CE...a sea of acronyms fill the days as fall comes rushing in, no, washing in over us. I've been having a bunch of fun teaching an html/css class the past few weeks. While brushing up on homework and tools tonight I realized that this weblog could probably do with a bit of cleanup and modernization. There's a few dozen styles and eras of web markup littered around this domain from over eight years of learning (or not) and changing.
Back in '95 when I was documenting the electric car conversion the fanciest thing that graced the pages was a knot of table code to give the images a "sculpted" frame. I've changed some of the templates over the years, but most of the content is still pretty old and scruffy. Reading up on CSS I can see how easy it would be to rework it all in a clean and orderly fashion. Is it worth it? Hundreds of people read it each day yet I doubt any of them care if the pages validate or can be re-styled in one fell swoop of CSS tweak-age.
I did mess with the image database this weekend. For the last few months all of the new images go into a database (instead of the file system) and are served up by a little script. Running it through a script like this provides a little more control and this weekend I exercised that by putting a watermark over images not served in jerryrig.com pages. This way when someone on livejournal.com or purerave.com or some other community site posts my pictures, the images will at least show a little copyright and url so folks know where it came from. Just a nit I've been picking...
With all of the rain lately I haven't felt much like taking photos. Zeke and I are due for another walk-to-work day soon and hopefully I can find something besides mushrooms to photograph. You wouldn't believe how many varieties of mushrooms there are. The other day Faith and I found potato mushrooms (not the official name). I thought someone was littering potatoes until I bent to pick one up and found it to be a very anchored and funky potato-looking mushroom.
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One of the potato mushrooms had a bit of green mold on the side. It REALLY looked like a true potato and not some poor mushroom being ravished by the humidity.