short takes

[cellio]

I thought the model was: air fills with moisture (humidity), it rains, humidity goes down. We seem to be skipping this last step. Someone isn't following the protocol! :-)

Remember when syndicated comic strips had to be drawn 4-6 weeks ahead because of distribution issues and stuff? This week Foxtrot did the blackout. Times have changed.

Dani and I have been watching two sets of DVDs, West Wing and B5. We've been alternating, pairwise. It's a little odd sometimes to flip back and forth between the two -- Bartlet's political intrigues interspersed with Londo's and Sheridan's. We're averaging about one viewing session a week, occasionally two, so this isn't high-speed or anything. By the way, Amazon says West Wing (first season) is coming out for region 1 later this year. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen for several more years.

The crystalized ginger that the Pepperers' Guild (SCA merchant) carries is much tastier than the stuff you can get in the Chinese section of the regular grocery store. This Pennsic I bought enough that they gave me an unopened package of what they order, rather than the weighed-to-order bags like most of the stuff I got. The only identifying information on the package is "Frontier Co-Op". I don't know who they are or where they are, but they do good ginger.

I wish LJ would give me a way of imposing my style settings on the individual-entry pages of journals I read, so I wouldn't be hosed by small fonts when trying to read through an lj-cut or read comments on others' entries. Several of my friends have switched to a style that uses, by default, a font I can't read without twiddling my browser. (The ones I've mentioned it to so far have been very kind about fixing it.) But if I twiddle my browser to make journals using that style readable, everything else I read is too big. (There is life beyond LJ, shocking as that may sound. :-) )

Given that there will always be badly-designed web pages out there, I suppose what I really want is a single-keystroke command in my browser that will bump the font up to the next size for just the page I'm looking at.

Along with the rest of the universe, I've been getting lots of bounce messages for spam I never sent (thank you SoBig). I wonder whether any of the sites that do spam filtering for their customers are running the same filters on their outgoing postmaster mail before sending it. The scary possibility is that they are. What a mess.

Comments

[alienor.livejournal.com]

Did you do your customizations by creating a new style or by using overrides? I just finished figuring it out using overrides by using one of the communities I manage (check out sca_persona's friends list), but since they are free I don't know how to do it with a new style.

Perhaps you can just stick the overide in anyway? I don't know. Here's the override.

FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK<=
%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%% (%%urlread%%?s2id=4) |
<=FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK
FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS<=

<=FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS

You'll have to change the text back to whatever you want.

Does S2 even support the idea of using different base styles for different parts of your journal? I like my friends view and my journal view, and they're not the same style.

I think you can, but it's complicated. The basic assumption is that if you like the style, you like it everywhere.

My solution is to put myself on my friends list. That way if I do something annoying that screws people up, I know about it (and can change it). If everyone did that, perhaps you wouldn't need Generator for your friends view? ::grin::

[alienor.livejournal.com]

crap, that didn't work.

Rather than reformat the whole thing, if you'll send me an email at alienor@livejournal.com I'll email you the code.

[cellio]

I created a style, because (at least at the time) overrides were un- or under-documented. So I copied the style and then edited it, which meant I only needed to know enough to identify the fields I wanted to change and change them.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

I think if you look for %%urlpost%% and %%urlread%% in your style and change them to be %%urlpost%%?s2id=4 and %%urlread%%?s2id=4 it may work.

Let me know if I'm helping any!

[cellio]

Thanks! That does help. For now (since s2id=1 seems to be one of the legible new styles, not the old style like it's supposed to be), I've inserted another link, so I have the option of the user's default style and a (potentially) more legible one. Eventually I'll collapse this down into one link with the id mod. Thanks!

[alienor.livejournal.com]

I looked at your friends page, it seems that you need to change the & to a ? for it to work.

Glad I could help!

And lj_nifty just posted about the same thing. ::grin::

[cellio]

Ah. I see what the problem is, but am not studly enough in the ways of HTML to fix it.

I have the "nc" option turned on for comments, which means that the number of comments is part of the URL. That way, it's easy to tell if there are new comments; the URL has changed, so the link does not show as visited. What this menas is that all of my comment URLs already have the "&" in them, to support this argument, so I have to begin my addition with a "?". (It's not legal to have two ampersands in a URL. This means my URLs break for people who don't use this option, though, like (I presume) you.

The right way to do this involves scanning the URL so far and choosing the appropriate delimiter. But I don't know how to do that. :-(

[alienor.livejournal.com]

That's really odd, because I DO have that option turned on.

I don't know how to fix it either, but if it works for you, then all is well!