Arbitrary Content

Radio Searching

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:20:50 GMT

I found instructions for adding a Google search box that restricts a search to a specific Radio web log in The Tweezer's Edge V3. It seemed like a fair thing to try, so I set it up (see right), but unfortunately links to specific entries aren't presented in the returns list. The blog snippet presented in the returns list confirms that the search term was found, but (apparently) gives no way of navigating to the item(s) that contain(s) that term.. Too late, I'm tired, tomorrow.

Nobody moves and nobody gets wet

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:20:17 GMT

Exactly five years ago Lyn and I were completing the final preparations for our cross-country (east to west) self contained bicycle tour. I ran across this picture this morning-- it was taken somewhere in Idaho or eastern Oregon, a few (three?) thousand miles into the trip, well after I went goofy with the exhilaration of it all. After all, what's better than a summer spent bicycling, reading, and eating? Lots of eating, lots of reading, including Huck Finn (which took me across the Mississippi), Banks' Cloudsplitter and Frazier's Great Plains (across Kansas), and lots of regional fiction and histories. I had forgotten, until a close look at this photo reminded me, that it was also the summer of continuous bug bites. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to do it again one day (and maybe one day I'll be that thin again), but this year we're looking forward to the Bicycle Tour of Colorado.

What's Next?

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:40:34 GMT

Setting up this blog was a fine exercise, but I'm not sure where to go from here. I won't be using it for communicating with friends (do I really need to supplement email, phone calls, movies, bike rides, lunches, dinner, coffee &etc.?). Although I had hoped to use it for archiving information I want to keep and retrieve, Radio's lack of a native search function makes that difficult (everything drifts into the great mass of past posts). I'm currently doing an state-level legislative history for a patron and I'd love to save the results here, but until/if I find a third party search engine, why? How would I find it again unless I remembered the date of the post? So the next step is to find a search tool. Jenny has one over at her Radio ShiftedLibrarian site, time to check it out...

Vive la France!

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:23:40 GMT

From Truffaut's Stolen Kisses (Criterion DVD Edition).

Bande a Parte

Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:13:41 GMT

A plan? Why a plan? We've been having our own 60's French film fest (ain't DVDs and local movie rep houses grand?). It started when I checked out a copy of Baie des Anges at our local PL, a random choice influenced by a picture of Jeanne Moreau on the DVD's packaging. We moved on to Grisbi, Pepe le Moko (OK, we abandoned the 60's part because of the Music Box), Band of Outsiders (the Madison sequence, yes), and Le Cercle Rouge. And on. Mostly, I posted this to remind myself about the site Cinema=Jean-Luc Goddard=Cinema.

Blogs, Stats & Students

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:19:41 GMT

Pew Internet & American Life released a report on U.S. Internet activity (2/29/04). Lead quote: "44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world." Although "a mere 2% of Internet users in this survey reported writing a weblog or online diary," the study also reports that "content creators are also disproportionately likely to be students—20% of all content creators are full-time or part-time students (about evenly split between the two groups), while only 14% of Americans identify themselves as students."

Moraine blogs are out!

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 04:31:11 GMT

Well, OK now. We got the Moraine Valley Blogs going, and they're structurally sound, nice and tight, and won't break. That's good. It also means that I'll have a little time to tool around with this blog, figure out a direction and a look, a purpose. I like the idea of cutting this content back into my web page. I did that with Moraine's Frankenstein blog-- created a headline-only RSS feed and popped the headlines into an "exhibit news update" box on the Frankenstein page-- and it's a simple task (a bit more detail's available in the Blog Development blog entry). But where's the time?