KHTML fixed...

At least, it is for my blog (which is dynamically generated). Seems it spazzes out when you have named span tags.

I've also taken this opportunity to fix the paragraph spacings from the text parser - before it was throwing in p tags everywhere, which meant that lyrics, for example, came out widely spaced. Now I take 2 consecutive newlines to mean a paragraph break, and one to be a linebreak. Much better.

Posted at 2003-12-02 12:14:51 by Richard • Link to KHTML fixed...

Safari/KHTML and CSS continued

You may recall my odd problem of this site not being centrally-aligned in KHTML. Well, try changing the font size up and down (Cmd-- and Cmd-+). Voila!
Bug.

Posted at 2003-12-02 11:38:57 by Richard • Link to Safari/KHTML and C…

Music, Lyrics, and David

I'm of the belief that most people don't listen to song lyrics. For example, a beautiful crystallisation of the end of a relationship:

Sorry for wasting your time
5 long months on the telephone line
Hours of asking if you were fine
And saying I was fine too

Sorry but I've got to go
The birth was quick but the death is slow
There was so much I didn't know
So much I never knew about you

…

And so we disconnect
The room grows quiet around us
Nothing left to protect
The end has finally found us

The day is almost over, it's almost time for bed
So now you've finally lost me, rest your weary head.

From Life Effect by Stars; marvellous review and the Amazon page with my mini-review on it.

It can't be possible to actually listen to that song, or The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, or Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, or any number of other songs without having to write something about them.
Therefore, people don't listen to songs enough.
Or perhaps they just listen to the wrong kind of music (though note the wonderful reviews...).

Posted at 2003-12-02 11:20:25 by Richard • Link to Music, Lyrics, and…

More Semantic Wiki Stuff

Here's a nice Wiki that doesn't use Wiki syntax: SnipSnap.
And one that's very "Semantic": RDFWiki. Python Wiki that has each Wiki page as a URI, and adds predicates into the document. Sweet.
Discussion here.

Also "StikiWiki": here, and the very intriguing but distressingly French Wikisem. Damn, I wish this were in English or I were better at French; this seems ideal.

One of the complete overviews is here, at the SemanticWiki (which isn't actually semantically marked-up at all!).

Posted at 2003-12-02 10:39:25 by Richard • Link to More Semantic Wiki…

Projects

Well, I've updated the Projects page to include my Address Book to FOAF script. Mmm.

At some point I'm going to redesign this site (again) into pure XHTML and CSS, put in a 'Publications' and a 'Data' section, and clean things up. Yah.

Posted at 2003-12-02 06:32:15 by Richard • Link to Projects