Almost eight years! This blog has been real, it’s been fun … and yet after a certain point, not real fun. When your fascination runs out of steam, when there’s no more juice flowing, it’s not time to mourn, but to move on.
My Day in Uruguay
Some funny stuff, some pretty pics, some oddities.
Thanks for your attention!
Reviewing the stats, I found 1,218 posts listed, but only 1,217 published. Aha!
The digging dog
26February 2018. This is from a month or so ago. Kiya, a dog obsessed with digging, makes a cave in the bank of the swimming hole (which at that point had no water). Benji looks on, and – are you ready for this? – there’s a third dog in there as well.
As a closing comment, I think that image says it all.
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know that occasionally it changes appearance. That’s because I change WordPress “themes,” the templates that determine how everything displays. Many themes don’t allow full-size photos. In my last change, I found one that did. So I was thrilled…
…OK, stop right there. Today I notice that this theme has decided to replace my changing Uruguay header pictures with a black and white photo of mountains with snow, of which Uruguay has neither. How the hell did that happen? Actually, I kind of like the irony. I think I’ll leave it for a while.*
But this theme had something I didn’t like: when I wanted to make something italic, the theme displayed it as bold italic.
So for weeks my daily to-do list has had a reminder to fix it.
But how? I went to the theme developer’s site to find a helpful forum, only to find that the theme hasn’t been updated in two years. Bad news. Kind of on my own.
I downloaded the theme’s stylesheet. Nothing amiss there: the <em> and <i> tags were probably mapped to italic. So what next? I looked at the source code of a blog entry, downloaded the header.php file, and there it was!
OK, not exactly in-your-face obvious. But in line 36, the theme is calling for Google web fonts, and font Open Sans italic is only specified as 700 weight, which as you know — because doesn’t everyone work with Google web fonts every day? — is bold. So I got the correct “call” code from Google fonts, created a “child” theme in WordPress, and inserted the “correct” code in the header.php file there, which overrules the original (without the risk of your changes being wiped out with a theme update, even though that seems unlikely after two years).
And it works!
I still have no idea how header.php was invoked by my blog posts, but perhaps that’s because…well, I did look into PHP programming at one point and essentially decided life is too short.
I’ll leave it at that.
* No doubt it has to do with my messing around with code I don’t understand.
The people that make WordPress have a neat plugin that filters out spam comments. Today it seems to have failed, and so my inbox has been filling with this pointless crap, with apparently requisite misspellings.
Gratuitous image of SPAM sort-of meat product, but OMG this is a real thing — click on image and weep….
I must admit, however, that I like the one about YouTube.
It’s wonfredul to have you on our side, haha!
I was really struck by the jupstxotiaion of the beautiful prints and the inherent violence of them and what they are teaching. I find it interesting that beauty and violence can be conveyed in the same image.
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It’s a relief to find sonmeoe who can explain things so well
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Blog entries like this proves without a doubt that YouTube do&n;e#39st care what the users think about their decisions. I may be one who uses the new design, but i don’t necessarily like it. I just know that it’s going to happen so I’m preparing my anus for the big undodgable YouTube corporate dildo.
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I know, this is kind of ridiculous: from blogger.com to self-hosted WordPress to WordPress.com and now back to self-hosted (a bit more demanding, but much more flexible): MyDayinUY.com.
