Tracey has a delightful entry posted about Signage. It made me think about a sign I remember from my youth and going downtown to visit my colorful, bedridden aunt. She was a bookie. We passed the sign every time we went. I then implored the Gods of Google to find an image of said sign. Thar she blows. I love the internet.
Really, really cool use of FlickR. Think I'll try it this weekend. I was kind of down on FlickR at one time. I have an entry stating so around here somewhere but I can't find it. More about that in a moment. I was wrong, wrong, WRONG and absolutely love it now.
Movable Type really could use a better search engine. The one here brings up all sorts of entries unrelated to the search term entered. The more content you have, the harder it is to find anything. If the owner of the blog can't find something, how is the reader supposed to? A thought occurred to me not long ago. Yeah, it happens sometimes. I went to the place I remembered someone writing about it and performed several searches. Sheila's body of blog work is about a hundred times larger than mine and she categorizes better than I do, which would help here, as well, but I was told a larger number of categories puts a larger strain on the server and I don't ever want to see another "internal server error" message again. Anyway, I don't remember what I was searching for but I apologize to Sheila for the bizarre, obscure searches. She talks about that sometimes at her place. It freaks her out when she sees them in her logs. Not me, though. I never look at my logs. :)
Quote of the Day
Don't Cuss
See Gus
Gus's Auto Glass
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "So, I'm sitting in bed with the laptop this muggy Thursday morning and wondering how on earth that giant blowfly has managed to hurl itself against the window so many times without concussing itself."
Fi is blogging again. YAY. -Rob
Love the "Don't Cuss, See Gus" sign. I'm guessing the stamps/stencil about the Lord are from someone who gets a little freaked at any image of the Devil.
On your search issue, are there settings in MT that you can configure for indexing your posts when you save them?
That "Jesus Lord" or "Jesus IS Lord" is a fairly common graffiti theme in New Orleans. It rarely has any significant context and that one looks almost like it was made by a rubber stamp so there was no art involved.
The current version of MT allows for tags and keywords and that helps a great deal. The problem is that I only started using those a few months ago. It won't help at all on the old blog. For it to work, I'd have to go back, add keywords and tags to all of those previous entries, and republish them. The cost in time and frustration outweigh the benefit by a mile. Search engines on the older versions of MT are useless.
Thanks Rob :)