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KG, at sea

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Well, this week I’d intended to introduce a new, exciting concept to the blogosphere, which would take the world by storm and yield articles in the Economist (I said I’m SORRY! Geez!) and the NYT, but instead, since I’m too busy (writing assignments, a trip next week) I’ll share with you the very first fan-submitted Ken Goldstein of the Week!

Mr. Goldstein is seen here appropriately modeling what I (a baseball ignoramus) believe to be a Seattle Pilots cap, as he demonstrates mastery of the tiller upon the bounding main. Accompanying him is the source of the charming photo, the lovely and talented Jahna D’Lish, a long-time friend of Mr. Goldstein.

Friends, acquaintances, and relatives of Mr. Goldstein are very strongly encouraged to send your KG-related imagery and memorabilia to me at my email address, mike@whybark.com; if I can sort it out from the spam, I’ll get back to you, promptly!

Thank you all for your support. Together, we can bemuse Ken into a sort of tizzy.

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Postal Humor

homelandsecurity.gif via boingboing, a pointer to a US Post Office site which features what Mark refers to as a “scary logo”; personally although the recently floated news concerning such things as a citizen informer corps and other institutionalizations of a surveillance culture do not please me or increase my sense of security, I don’t find the logo scary.

Someone who works for the PO was making a political opinion known – one which coincides with mine. Hope they don’t get in too much trouble.

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Everything is in order, for now.

… and I just know you are fascinated to hear that the latest round of site fiddlin’ is just about wrapped up. For the curious:

  • I added domain-restricted searching via Google to the sidebar. Google seems to pay attention to my site, so it seems to work fairly well.

  • The drop-down archive menus are now sitewide.

  • In a related matter, I added the appropriate new secondary category archive flags (KG of the Week, Monday Art, Blimp Week) to the appropriate entries and cleaned up some incidental duplicates.

  • I added the sidebar to all of the ancillary pages.

  • I made the category archives navigable, and edited their format to increase load speed.

  • I’m still futzing with “Recent Entries” on the archive pages; currently the “recent” list is, in fact, what’s recent within the appropriate category. I think I have a brute-force workaround in place but I believe there’s a better way.

  • Last but not least, I’m working on a “recently discussed” link area for your easy reference, currently viewable only on the main page.

*phew!* man, the rebuilds are starting to D R A G, though. All those queries and page builds for pore ol’ l’il perl to crunch thru… good camel, good boy.

Hunh, you know, what I *should* do is build the sidebar once into a flat text file, and have the pages call it in either at page view (via PHP or shtml SSI) or (this is somewhat preferable) at perl-munging time. Hm, yes, that’s the way to do it.