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This morning I needed a way to get the next three upcoming events from the HSC Calendar listed on the home page. Here's how I got it to work. I already had the calendar set up with some PHP to filter out events that happened before today (notes on how this was done). What I … [Read more...] about List of next three events from Movable Type calendars

I once drew a diagram of the default Movable Type templates so I could make sense of all the nested divs and whatnot. (The templates are more complex than they need to be for modern browsers, but all the redundancy ensures Netscape 4 compatibility.) Of course I promptly lost the … [Read more...] about Illustrated MT Templates

I've just discovered that my entry from December 4th somehow got stuck in Draft mode. I've published it. It's not that interesting. The best thing about it was this link to Sara Donati [Rosina Lippi] on exclamation points. … [Read more...] about Argh

To list upcoming events without going to all the trouble of creating a separate calendar blog, you can use upcoming.org to enter your events (and find other people going to them), and include the list in your blog. As long as you don't mind using third-party tools, that is. Nifty … [Read more...] about Easy events calendars

I fixed the bottom of the page (by finding an old copy of the CSS file and replacing the corrupt one; and how it got corrupted I'll never know) and the search (it really helps when you attach an action to the form tag; sigh). If you find any other glitches, report them to your … [Read more...] about Glitches fixed

Some of you may have noticed the atrocious comment spam that's been popping up here lately. I've deleted the comments as I've found them, but the spammers are finding old comment threads and flooding them with junk. When the new version of MT came out, I upgraded, but didn't do … [Read more...] about Closing old comment threads and dealing with spam

Reading through the search queries on this site affords endless amusement, especially if you rearrange them like refrigerator poetry: NaNoWriMo TypePad Orlando Bloom zen calendar spank Boston dead people movable past "what possible use?" Tivo archives Buffy viable … [Read more...] about Search query poetry

The LJ feed should be working again in about half an hour. If you get three months' worth of posts all at once…. sorry. Mea culpa. Update: Oy. That sucked. Back to normal now. … [Read more...] about LJ snafu fixed, I think

I'm taking a break from the net for a little while in order to focus on writing. I'll be back… eventually… … [Read more...] about Bye