Notes to self

Must do:

  • Change the Movable Type templates for this site, or at least for my own blog, so that they do proper XHTML.
  • Change the editing setup so that I don’t have to wrap <p> tags around paragraphs (i.e., make “Convert line breaks” the default), then go back and edit all my old entries to remove all the then redundant <p> tags.
  • For years I’d been working under the misapprehension that <a> hyperlinks have an “alt” attribute to go with them. Nuh-uh. Should be using the “title” attribute instead. Again, go back and re-edit the entries.
  • Also in the context of changing the site templates, allow comments. Which is probably going to mean turning on individual archiving for my entries here. (So far, everything’s just archived on a monthly basis.)
  • We changed the directory structure of our image store on Sunpig a while back, but (naughty me) I didn’t set up redirects from the old image locations to the new ones. I should do that, because we’re still getting hits (or rather, misses) on the old image files. Also, I should edit all my old entries to point to the new images.
  • I think that maybe I should just make a list of all the changes I need to make to the old entries, and edit them all once rather than trawling through them several times.
  • Need to add some entries for the last couple of weeks (weekend trip away–Plumed Horse!–Minidisc player–redundancies at work, etc.).
  • And, of course, upload some more photos of Alex!
  • And perhaps change the stylesheet for this page… It could use a little sprucing up.
  • Gotta finish copying over my reviews from Dooyoo to here. Maybe write a few new ones while I’m at it.
  • Bring my “recommended reading” list up-to-date. So many links, so little space…

Oh, and most important of all: write more. Write, write, write. Write for here, write for elsewhere. I need to get these fingers working for me again.