Alan Gutierrez

Lance Hill sent me a link to another article by Adam Nossiter in the New York Times. Nossiter is off drinking at the trough of Uptown’s conventional wisdom in his article Whites Take a Majority on New Orleans’s Council.

There is a post at Think New Orleans called Is Adam Nossiter a Tool? That question stands. I don’t want to write a new article about the matter, but rather have people continue to discuss the issue under the existing article. What I really want is a website that will allow me to feature this article once again, or rather bring this subject up in the context of the conversations that took place before. It is very important to preserve both the existing discussion and the timeline of events.

Which is something that is common to most of my civic writing. I do want to encourage participation in the conversation, so I want to resurrect the existing conversation, with the exisiting participants. Most people subscribe to email notifications of comments of a particular post. To notify them that Adam Nossiter is banging on about race and quoting Greg Rigamer, I need to continue the discussion under the previous post.

Although, I’m pleased that WordPress is now performing acceptably, both blogs and Wikis fail to make my efforts in New Orleans easier.

I removed a hack that I’d thrown in to implement asides. Think New Orleans has been slow. It is now performs acceptably. I’d not feel like posting much lately, since I couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to read a website that took 30 seconds to load.

I want to move my Asides to the sidebar in all my blogs. Little thoughts news in brief. I like having a carefully crafted message at the top of the main channel of my blogs.

Hacked Adam Gessaman’s Textile 2 Plugin to shell out to Why’s RedCloth / Textile & Markdown for Ruby.

Why? Because, I spend most of my day picking through my cut and paste, removing texturized do-dad’s like that single quote just went by and so called “double” quotes, which Textile will turn from " to matching quotes, except that if they are already there, cut and paste form on of the many word documents that Melanie Ehrlich likes to send me, then PHP Texile turns them into poison characters that leave little question marks in little diamonds, while RedCloth passes them right through.

Going from a 37Signals Writeboard or Backpack will bring these little dudes over, and then my posts are littered with funky characters. My dear, beloved users wonder what sort of web master I am. Am a I good or am I evil?

And, yes, WordPress does something wicked to XML example code. I exemplify XML to frequently to contenence this outrage. It will not do.

I updated the control panel, so you can set the path to RedCloth, and return to the strange world of PHP Textile using the radio button options. You can have this hacked plugin, but I don’t want to hear about how sloppy my additions to the code. It is as much PHP as I can stand for 2007 to have done this much.

This is a photograph that I’m going to use as a header image for the new Kubrick based theme for my blog. Karen annotated it at Flickr to show how it exemplifies multiple land use.

New theme for less gloom and more content. A lighter, brighter theme. Familiar Kubrick look bores your attention towards the pretty words and images.

I’m going to be doing more organization in the open, here at Blogometer and also at the Think New Orleans weblog. I’ve created a WordPress plugin that allows me to choose what goes on the front page of Blogometer, and what can go in the sidelines.

It’s an extension of a concept I’ve had for a while, of a stream of consciousness blog, a place where you post ideas in their infancy, ask questions, or leave yourself notes. It is not even an aside, one of the short scrunchy posts that you see here, since it is information that ought to interest no one, except perhaps the oddballs that Google brings in.

If you look in the categories section, you’ll find posts that are not visible in on the front page. I’m going to experiment with categorization, so that if you’re involved in a particular project, you can follow along by viewing a particular category, or a particular tag.

For now, if you want to catch what is missing, bookmark Sideline or subscribe to the Sideline feed and I’ll be sure to tag posts that are not on the front page with “Sideline”.

Had to change the Simpla theme of Kiloblog to accomdate the new Textile plugin. The Textile plugin will always wrap the contents in a paragraph. I’ve styled paragraphs as inline, when they are in a div with the “aside” class.

This would be a matter of taking the iCal or XML from a public Google calendar and transforming it into a calendar like the EventCalendar 3.0 calendar. Any interest?