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I think I may move the automated evening posts into a separate thing. I go in spurts on this blog. And I don't particularly enjoy seeing a string of automated posts and I know it's not ideal for my blog readers (the three of you there are.)
I'm not sure the solution yet. I'm at the "Identify problem" phase of it. We'll see where I land.
Poem from Shogun, Ep. 8
This is the poem or waka from Shogun's episode 8. I immediately fell in love with it and began researching it to understand if it was a series of haikus or what.
The sound of rain on the leaves can be heard.
Still more fragile is the dew of tears on my sleeves even in springtime.
Waiting, the pine tree never withers in winter.
If I could use words like scattering flowers and falling leaves
what a bonfire my poems would make.
As I googled though, I discovered that the writers seem to have borrowed that last line from another poem, 'If I could write words' by Spike Milligan:
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
"I love you."
I found it posted here. Now, maybe they had stolen it from Shogun and quickly put it up? But no, that is almost definitely not the case. Archive.org has the page from 2021, and the credited author passed away in 2022. And indeed, googling the poem name shows it online in 2010, and digging further I believe it comes from Milligan's 1974 published book, "Small Dreams of a Scorpion." So, certainly not new.
I don't begrudge the writers, it is a truly beautiful sentiment and poem. Just found it notable that the poem was inspired by the works of another.
"Old CSS, new CSS"
Oh this blog entry could have been written by me. I also learned to make webpages in the 90's before CSS. So much nostalgia and memories of our version of "walking up hill in the snow both ways."
Let’s say you wanted all your [h1]s to be red, across your entire site. You had to do this:
<H1><FONT COLOR=red>...</FONT></H1>…every single goddamn time. Hope you never decide to switch to blue!
Oh, and everyone wrote HTML tags in all caps. I don’t remember why we all thought that was a good idea. Maybe this was before syntax highlighting in text editors was very common (read: I was 12 and using Notepad), and uppercase tags were easier to distinguish from body text.
Keeping your site consistent was thus something of a nightmare. One solution was to simply not style anything, which a lot of folks did. This was nice, in some ways, since browsers let you change those defaults, so you could read the Web how you wanted.
A clever alternate solution, which I remember showing up in a lot of Geocities sites, was to simply give every page a completely different visual style. Fuck it, right? Just do whatever you want on each new page.
That trend was quite possibly the height of web design.
Automated Archives for April, 13th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-9
Net Elo Change: -29
Games Played
- django1963 - LOSS
- Muhammad55 - LOSS
- tareq1 - WIN
- Yapana_Rayata - LOSS
- boryo84 - LOSS
- V-Deek - WIN
- KANYANTAM - WIN
- VeryChessNewbie - LOSS
- VeryChessNewbie - LOSS
- VeryChessNewbie - WIN
- sqipe765 - LOSS
- Mongezi - LOSS
- fsonaglioni - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
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