A Fresh Face
I am in the process of redesigning the Ernest Hemingway site. I’ve maintained this web page for over five years now, and I’ve decided it’s time to give it a fresh face. While I’m tweaking everything, you can find the old site here.
East Bound
East Bound and Down – The Smokey & the Bandit theme song
XML-RPC Ping
Ben has written a tutorial on adding weblogs.com XML-RPC PING functionality to your MovableType blog. Woo! What does this mean? It means that if you follow the steps in the tutorial, whenever you add an entry to your MovableType blog, MT will automatically ping weblogs.com to alert that you have updated.
Mailing List
ERNEST is the Ernest Hemingway Mailing List. This is the best place to post questions about Hemingway or his works. To subscribe, leave the subject line blank and send the message: SUB ERNEST Your Name to listserv@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu.
BCS
The Bowl Championship Series rankings will be released at 7 pm EST.
Previous / Next
If you’re using MovableType to run your blog, here’s the HTML to include ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ buttons (with a ‘Home’ button in the middle) on your individual entry pages: <div align=”center”> <form> <MTEntryPrevious><input type=”button” value=”<$MTEntryTitle$>” onclick=”window.location='<$MTEntryLink$>’;”></MTEntryPrevious> <input type=”button” value=”Home” onclick=”window.location='<$MTBlogURL$>’;”> <MTEntryNext><input type=”button” value=”<$MTEntryTitle$>” onclick=”window.location='<$MTEntryLink$>’;”></MTEntryNext> </form> </div>
Last Updated
I’ve created a “Last Updated” system in my MT network and, although I’m sure it can be done better, I thought I’d share. I have five separate MT blogs running now. On my main page (which will be converted to MT once the ability to import GreyMatter comments is part of MT) I wanted to
the good stuff
I completed another of my web development tasks tonight. One of my sub-blogs, the good stuff is now a MovableType blog. The good stuff is the sidebar list of ten links. These are links that I want to bookmark for one reason or another, but about which I don’t feel like writing an entire blog
Read. Learn.
I found this excellent essay about writing computer code at evhead. The author makes several very good points about reading and writing in a programming language. I feel a little bit better about my own programming after reading it. When I dusted off PoolPlayer (my football pool manager app) last month I was tempted to
Gamecocks
PETA asks USC to drop its team nickname, citing glorification of cruelty, violence “It’s a safe bet that officials at the University of South Carolina would never dream of calling their athletic teams the Dogfighters, the Wifebeaters, the Looters or the Road-Ragers,” Phelps said. What does she suggest as an alternative? “The Gym Socks or