2010-02-11 14:28:35 by admin in admin (no comments) permalink
hobotrain.net/network/postdelete/ describes the maintenance and status of http://postdelete.com/ and catalogs changes and additions to its content …
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2010-09-29 10:07:03 by admin//
postdelete.com has moved to Tuttle’s Corner. New and previously published postdelete content is now available here.
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2010-04-08 12:06:41 by admin//
postdelete.com is now online…
- Added ☷: 10 OCT 08 10:50:54 ♨
- Added Previous/Next page links between the tag list (drifts) and the comments form on single-post pages.
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2010-02-11 9:45:45 by admin//
I really like the looks of postdelete. I’ve always liked its looks. Its content is more of an issue with me. Part of the problem is that I lack the courage, or maybe just any reason, to publish what I know to be unpublishable. And in the absence of quality, I have attempted to rely (to attempt to rely) upon my (Tuttle’s) pathos to carry the day there. I think that that will ultimately be enough to give postdelete.com a reason for being; but at the moment, and with the quality of its content as poor as it is, I’m sure that its cause isn’t helped by the overall paucity of content there, either. Since I can’t abandon it, I have fetishized it, focusing my efforts there almost entirely on how that site looks and feels, still quietly hoping that ideas for how to fill it up will come to me over time.
(This is a familiar problem for creative people who may not yet have proven themselves to have the chops to make their dreams manifest through artistic output. On a larger scale, it’s America’s problem too: Lots of big dreams, but more talk than action. What do we make, artists and Americans? Beyond the brand, what do we have to sell that can’t be gotten anywhere else, at any price?)
At the crossroads of content and presentation on the hobotrain network, is WordPress. WordPress is both blogging software and a CMS. Bare bones stuff, but endlessly enhanceable through both coding tricks and third-party scripts, starting, for almost everyone, with themes or skins. What shall it look like, your blog? What will people to see when they turn to look after hearing you shout, “Hello, World!”?With postdelete, I thought I knew, and I chose my theme from amongst several that I felt conveyed a literary sensibility, one- or two-column, fixed width, with bold graphics that draw visitors’ eyes down, not across, the page. As they say on reality shows when one aspiring somebody after another is asked to leave: it was a difficult decision, but….
One thing that always bothered me about the WordPress theme I chose for postdelete.com was that the theme’s author embedded some encrypted PHP into the functions.php file along with a comment warning that deleting the encrypted code would break the theme. There is no reason to believe that anything untoward was contained in it, but without decrypting it, it was impossible to tell what was hidden there, over and above the author credit that it purported to write into the theme’s footer. but since the theme was created going on four years ago, and the theme author’s site has been abandoned for close to two years now
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2009-09-27 12:17:02 by admin//
- Added First Ever Letter to the Editor which I believe is only the first or second post ever to be deleted from Tuttle’s Corner. 5L4M wrote this in a self-described fit at the end of the shift last night, and had second thoughts about it this morning.
- Added ☷: 25 JUNE 07 13:46:15 (Early Boarding Notice) which was supposed to be deleted from net/network two years or so ago. Rather than deleting this piece completely from net/network, I added a 301 (permanent) redirect to its address which will take Diggers, Googlists and others to postdelete, instead. I realize that a lot of traffic has been driven here by links to that page which have sprung up around the Web, but I’d just as soon take the hit to my traffic here than have that piece be available to any more strangers in this context.
- Fixed hobotrain network links which went missing from the sidebar (between the monthly archives and the search form). I think this was just an issue with a third-party script which has been updated.
- Now noticing a problem like the one I’m having on Monk Falls and Tuttle’s Corner where tags (drifts; markers) don’t appear immediately in the tag cloud, although they do appear as expected at the bottom of new posts and link correctly to their respective tag (drift; marker) archives. I’m noticing that new tags take 4-6 hours to appear in tag clouds, which only seems to be important because I’m perhaps overly interested in populating my somewhat scrawny tag clouds at this early stage.
- Still interested in how I might be able to achieve greater than 15 of the most recent posts at postdelete in the sidebar, which seems to be a built-in limitation of the default widget. Not so important considering there are only 11 entries at postdelete.com at this time.
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2009-09-14 14:23:02 by admin//
- Added excisions from the Well-Come page at Monk Falls. These elements include all of the pained explanations of that site as well as all of accolades I was prepared to heap onto Scott for his work at plaintxt.org, but which, although the accolades still stand, may have ended up embarrassing both of us if they had been posted in that context.
- Added the image I removed from the Lucky/Disembarkation page at Monk Falls. This image, is a detail from a photograph I took of my face about an hour after I was sucker punched in a parking lot on Grand and Wooster, was incorrectly placed on the Monk Falls timeline as described in the monkfalls_changelog on 2009-09-04 at 14:27:35 The image will instead eventually accompany an entry describing how I came to be punched and of the punch’s aftermath, the effects of which are in some ways still being felt today. I have not yet added text to this entry, which I’d forgotten about until I brought it up here…
- Moved to display 15 most recent posts rather than 7 under the <h2>effacement</h2> heading in the sidebar.
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2009-09-05 18:23:16 by admin//
Deleted the debates piece. Weighing seven to ten additional entries before taking postdelete online. It looks good, though.
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2009-08-29 18:23:16 by admin//
Reminder to delete the Debates piece. (This introduces the question of what to do with items that are deleted from postdelete.com.)
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2009-08-20 12:25:04 by admin//
Bastard. I cannot kill it, so it lives.
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