Comments on: Kudos and apologies: One more Friday p.m. post

By: walt

walt — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:38:00 +0000

Steve, Thanks, and I think I agree. What Lessig does works fine for his special case. I’m hoping people will be aware of the book(s) [yes, there probably are more to come--I have a two-book project in mind that could only really be done via self-publishing], but I don’t really want that to dominate the blog. Admission: When there are two books (and up to four or five will fit, I think), I’ll use a–boo, hiss–table to lay them out. Probably. As Lessig does, actually.

What’s interesting to me about that illustration, a direct resampling of the front cover portion of the wraparound cover, is that it’s only 180 pixels wide, and yet the subtitle, which can’t have more than five or six horizontal pixels per letter (average), is reasonably readable.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:24:28 +0000

The cover image looks nice in the footer; probably a better choice than the banner.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:29:42 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Walt.

By: walt

walt — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:44:59 +0000

For anyone who happens here and doesn’t subscribe to CavLec, Dorothea’s post linked above is a must read. Another nudge for me to write that essay/post…

Note: Steve has offered to help with the banner here. I’ve concluded that I really should learn enough to do it myself, but if that doesn’t work, I’ll take him up on it. It’s good to have friends, particularly those with whom you can disagree civilly.

Updated a few minutes later: After managing to screw it up royally as part of the banner (it looked fine but pushed all postings over by the width of the front cover), I managed to get it installed appropriately as part of the footer. Less prominent, but that’s OK with me.

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:58:52 +0000

Comment made.

By: walt

walt — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:40:03 +0000

Dorothea, Meredith, thanks for the comments. (That post about being wrong and admitting it is still sitting in my hindbrain…being able to admit being wrong, which all of us are from time to time, is a rarer skill than it should be, unfortunately.) Meredith: You get no argument from me about the last paragraph…but I can empathize.

Steve: Look’a'that! Now, can you tell me how to do Lessig’s trick and show book covers just below the banner? (Some day, I need to really learn CSS/HTML/XML instead of hacking at it.)

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:12:14 +0000

Dorothea is definitely a class act. I just had to talk to a colleague the other day who has screwed things up time and again and caused more work for me, yet never so much as apologizes for it. I told her I wouldn’t mind the screw-ups so much if she just took responsibility and apologized (and it took her about 30 minutes of talking to finally get out the words “I’m sorry”… as if it pained her to say it). Some people really have trouble with that. Dorothea does not, and it’s a quality that instantly makes me like a person. It takes guts to admit when you were wrong.

Dorothea’s only negative quality, in my opinion, is the fact that she doesn’t give herself nearly enough credit. I’m not sure if it’s just modesty or if she really has no idea how terrific she is.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:40:54 +0000

You want the horizontal rule to show up on the site? Delete this from style.css:

hr {
display: none;
}

Also, 5 Weeks, Salo, still awesome.

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:25:20 +0000

When one screws up as regularly as I do, one has to learn to deal, know what I’m sayin’?

Seriously, though, being able to call somebody out without getting their back up (and I’m pretty touchy) is a valuable skill. You have it in spades.