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]

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!