Gnodal Journal

*sigh* I just adjusted my style sheet; consequence? the horizontal rules in the right sidebar have all gone to 100%, and archive links have disappeared. !crap!

You’d think that republishing archives would force those old pages to use the new template, right? And, in fact, you’d be correct. And you’d think that when the changes were incorporated you’d end up with archive pages that look like the most recent, right? … !Ha! … you probably think software is deterministic!! *Geeeeeeeeeeeezus*

Okay … date/time stamp looks great, archive list is complete, even my counter is working. Sooooo, lets just say the system was being adjusted, ok? (I got a database ODBC error when trying to save the template at one point … “database full” *yikes* … so this is possibly true.) But the problem remains: dare I go into Edit Template and risk blowing everything away?

On 7JAN03, in my little item on Apple chooses ”Safari”, I wrote. “A choice of browsers … hunh … Given that I’ve never and will never use IE, that’s truly novel concept for me! So, it comes to this, then: shall I use Mozilla 1.2.1? or Phoenix 0.5? …. ummmm, I think the latest Phoenix nightly is the order of the day.”
For the record, I’ve been using Mozilla 1.3a since then … sweet.

I’ve recovered archives, which is a Good Thing.
From this evening’s experience I know that, if I go back to edit the template, it will 1) destroy the contents of the right sidebar (either the text, or the archive script, or bits and pieces of both) and/or 2) destroy the counter script I’ve put in. Life’s like that, I know … but I’m not convinced it has to be.

Well shit!

I add text to my right sidebar in the template, and it gets blown away.
I again and again and again re-install the archive script, and it gets blown away.
When the archive script is inplace, I take a look, and find that gobs of material from the past has been disappeared.
yet again dot-comers show that their services are worth the price paid, i.e. free, if you can stand an unending stream of aggravation! Shit shit shit!!

Holy shit … after reloading this page (copying the text first), I pasted this text in place … and blew away the “Post / Post and Publish” toolbar yet again. I’ll post this using the popup window. All the while, I’ll be wondering why the archive is showing no further back than the beginning of the new year.

Blogs refine enterprise focus by InfoWorld‘s Cathleen Moore begins, “Building on the success of Weblogs for personal Web publishing, enterprises are starting to tap into blogs to streamline specific business processes such as intelligence gathering or to augment traditional content-and knowledge-management technologies.

XpertWeb’s Manifesto for a New Economy conceptualizes things wonderfully: “The Internet is a conversation. Work and its Reward is primarily a conversation about quality: money is just the punch line. The quality of the work-reward conversation, not money, is the best benchmark for a ‘New’ Economy.”

And in the cluetrain manifesto we’re treated to this: “A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter faster than most companies.”

An introductory sidebar reads

“This Site Declared A Read-Only Landmark –   When we created Cluetrain.com in April, 1999, it kicked up some dust. A few thousand people signed their endorsement of the ideas. Lots of email, lots of press coverage. This is the site as it existed then. The conversations continue elsewhere. Please read and enjoy. But don’t tap on the glass as it just annoys the animals.”

This is followed by a shortlist of bloggers [the animals?]: “To catch up with the site’s creators: Chris Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger.”