As you can see, the site is under serious construction. Archives… no worky. Etc. Etc. Please be patient. I only have so many minutes per day to work on this. But soon enough, Halfass-ey goodness shall abound!

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Dearest Peeps, We are going “off the grid” for a few days. Today is the day we move into our new apartment. However, due to the fact that we will not have internet installed until Monday at the earliest, blogging, Flickr updates and emails will be left largely unanswered.

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I think it’s been mentioned before, but I shall reiterate the request for delegated comment and trackback spam removal. For example, a popular site could “deputize” a few trusted readers who, when viewing the site, would see a link to mark as spam any comment. It would work off of cookies, and the site owner [...]

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There’s no more digital sidestepping love. I’m out of business at the workplace in terms of communication. Therefore, if you need to reach me during the day, do not use the usual channels, but instead, hit me up on my corporate e-mail account. Such incidiental use of said corporate account is fully permitted by Corporate [...]

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Fear not, sweet tens of readers, for I have not left you. Today, in fact, marks my return to “the office” after three weeks at home post birth. Now that I am back at work, I can blog apace and not be distracted by pesky issues such as children and sleep. This morning, exiting the [...]

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Attention, my tens of readers: I have initiated a pilot program to expand the content on this site. The new, probably soon-to-be-abandoned project is pretentiously titled Visual Narrative and appears as a link to your right. My goal with this section is to have, you guessed it, a “photo blog.” I’ve tried before, but this [...]

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I just figured out that individuals subscribing to the XML v.2 full entry RSS feed of this site (in English, the version that can be read completely without visiting Halfass.com directly) have only been getting the introductory paragraphs; a bit more than the excerpt, but far short of the “full” entry. Rather than feeding, such [...]

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I’m in the process of migrating all of the photos to the multimedia gallery. On the plus side, I hope to take this opportunity to provide something that has been devestatingly absent from my existing photo site: editorial discretion. On the down side, once I move them over, I will be giving the current photo [...]

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Whoa! It’s starting to look pretty good, isn’t it? Nate is working on stylesheet stuff to implement Pepe’s ideas. My job is mostly over, for now, which was to re-structure the markup into xhtml. Now, we are shittin’ in tall cotton! I’m truly floored by the amazing work these gents are capable of pulling off, [...]

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It’s 7:44 A.M. I got my Turkey on at 7. Someday I will post my recipe for the Roasted Turkey Bratton-Partee Style, but I doubt it would excite my tens of readers. You see, the key to my turkey is simplicity. The stuffing excepted, we’re only dealing with three ingredients, so it’s all about technique. [...]

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Wow! That was easy. I was able to change my scripting language and output of MT with minimal fuss. Probably the best part was that I was able to put in a quick .htaccess file that automatically fixed Google. By that, I mean to say that links to my old files should now result in [...]

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Whew! It’s getting close, at least from a “back end” perspective. As stated previously, I am moving to the PHP scripting language to handle functionality on this site. Whether or not I acutally need PHP or not is another question, but one we won’t be thinking about ever again. Never speak of it again! I [...]

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Before I moan and cry about the second snag I have hit in my second step, let me problaim a huge victory. If you run the main index page of this weblog through the validator you will see that it validates as XHTML 1.0 strict. Nate helped me get there. For those just joining, step [...]

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So I hit my first snag in the implementation of Version 5.0. I marked up the main index template semantically, and like it. I’ll probably have to change it a bit for efficiency when I decide how to group my elements, but it looks good. I decided to run my results through the validator and [...]

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UPDATE I’m starting the reorganization of the templates and the markup. Comments are probably going to break. Things, which are already very ugly indeed, are about to get much more hideous. Be careful.

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