Four more years of deficits, terror, mayhem, bodies coming home in bags, constitutional shredding, arrogant righteousness, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Four more years. I don’t feel well.
Voting
I went and voted this morning. I don’t know how they are going to keep politics out of religion when you have to go to a church to cast your vote. As Elaine said, it’s a good thing we live on the boondocks. I was #79 in my precinct to vote. It took 15 minutes, half of that time was in the voting booth reading the referendums to make sure they were still what I had studied beforehand. (There were also a few school bond issues that I didn’t realize would be on my ballot so I had to give them a quick read-though as well.)
The most agonizing vote today was the proportional allocation of electors. I am so for that concept rather than the winner-take-all method we have in most (48?) states today. But, unless it is done multilaterally by all the states, it doesn’t seem to provide a very effective political voice at the federal level. So I voted against it, this time. Plus, I understand there is some constitutional luggage with the Colorado amendment. The US Constitution says that the legislature is supposed to determine how the electors are allocated, not the state constitution, so this one would probably go through the courts for a while.
Spammers
Evidently requesting registration doesn’t stop the spammers. I will need to check out Elaine’s plug-in she found.
Later:
I found another option in the moderation control that I am trying. If you post a comment, don’t put a lot of hyperlinks in the comments.
New Updated Trip Report
I ran across a bunch of pictures I scanned in 5 years ago, of our trip to Australia. Originally, I had created a really nice web site where I had thumbnails of each image next to a comment, in a table, and the whole site told a story of our trip. Unfortunately, the site was lost many years ago and I couldn’t find the local copies of the web pages, so it went away. I just downloaded the images into some album maker and put them out for people’s perusal.
I find that I am not happy with the Linux HTML tools I have at hand. Admittedly, it took several weeks to put together the old web site, but it had cascading styles and continuity. I was able to put this one together in several hours but it doesn’t have the look or feel I want it to have. I can’t imagine a web page builder that doesn’t allow you to insert a background color! It’s probably there, just not documented.
Anyway, the pictures are there to look at. We saw some beautiful and interesting sights in Australia, and we caught a few on film. The link should be on the side menu bar.
Changing Browser Font Size
I experimented a little and noticed some interesting changes to the eg page when I change the browser font size (control + or control-). Try it and let me know what it does to your display.
One Nation Under Bush – At a campaign rally, Republicans recite the "Bush Pledge." By Chris Suellentrop
So Appropriate as I am listening to Cult of Personality by Living Colour at the moment.
Crippled
Today I am home, hobbled by a bad ankle. Not sure what happened, it was fine yesterday at noon and by 6 PM I could barely walk. The ankle just hurt and I don’t think I hit anything. So I figured to work from home today and then found out my remote access wouldn’t work, I think I used the wrong password too many times and the system has locked me out. I will need to wait to get reset.
Ongoing Construction
Well, this is from my home PC and I still haven’t been able to get the picture on the menu to be centered L<>R , 25 pixels from the top, though that’s where it is on the other browsers I’ve looked at.
Browser Problems?
I noticed last night on my home PC that eg didn’t display as I had formatted it on two separate web browsers in my KDE GUI. I am running SUSE Linux at home. Yet Elaine diplayed properly on her Redhat linux system. Most peculiar. Please let me know if you see a picture at the top of the menu and if the eg logo is lined up with the text in the rap area.
Thanks.
Case Sensitivity
REMEMBER CASE SENSITIVITY!
I had added my picture to the top of the menu bar but it wouldn’t display. And it worked on my Windows PC when I set it up. But the Word Press server is on a Linux box and Unix is case sensitive. So, the capitalized PNG in my picture file is not the same as the small png in my code. I think it is fixed now.
Windows is oblivious to case and is a dangerous tool to edit with unless you are going to put the results on a Windows Server.
If everything is looking right, the ‘rap’ (where this text is) should be in TAN, the header area (where the logo is) should be GREEN, the menu to the left should be a PALE YELLLOW and the body background should be a repeated green Celtic Knot motif. Please let me know if you see something different.
Next, I shall try to create a menu header module that will contain my picture and some text commentary.