Tri Nguyen

Here’s a heads-up for Markdown users.

Looking through my Categories and Archives views, I was startled to see raw, unconverted Markdown syntax in certain posts.

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Sitting in a bus, an Airbus, or your dentist’s office with a desperate yen to post, but you’re not on-line? I recommend two desktop apps, Zempt and w.Bloggar, for just this situation.

Both talk to WordPress through its XML-RPC interface. Both do the job well and are free.

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I tweaked my WordPress by lightly altering Kubrick 1.2.6, a template built for WordPress 1.2. Porting this over to WordPress 1.5’s spiffy new code base was an unexpected treat. Wow. Sure, I had to substitute a couple tags and tweak the CSS, but that’s it. Everything just works.

OK, but how to add CSS tabs? This I’m having no luck with. [SilverOrange's approach][1] is promising, but—maybe you can see above—just isn’t working out. Until it’s sorted out, expect some things to look like hell.

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My Metro commute swings past the VA medical center. Two old veterans boarded and started talking. As they talked, I marveled.

They easily looked 10 years older than 52 and 54. During Vietnam each had considered running to Canada. Each ended up in the service, one with the 101st Airborne Division, the other taking it safe in the Navy Reserve. They chatted about weapons: qualifying on the Colt .45 and the old M-1 Garand; using the toy-like, “Matty Mattel” M-16; an incident on a boat, firing off a Tommy gun and accidentally shooting the wing off a seagull.

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Did you notice? The new banner and colors?

I pulled Kubrick Template.psd into Photoshop, applied darker, warmer colors, and for the banner I cropped an image of red flowers taken during our first visit to Swanson’s Nursery two weekends back.

Funny how last October these modifications to the Kubrick template baffled me utterly. Layers? Masks? Multiply? OK, Photoshop still spanks me, but I’m getting little better.

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Luna’s sewing herself a new jacket. She burst upstairs, happy as a bug, modeling the half-finished garment, its greenish trim sewn in here but not there. It was a Seventies pattern (she loves anything vintage). Larae had given her the brown fabric which I admired. I admired too the cut of the collar.

“Best of all,” she said, “it hides my stomach!”

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I’m trying to write a little every day. Using WordPress from Firefox makes this less hard. My tips:

Use Firefox’s bookmark keywords. I hate having to navigate to my WordPress “Write Post” page when I want to write. So I bookmarked the page. Then I gave it the keyword, “w.” Now when I want to post, I jump to the location bar, type “w” + ENTER, and I’m blogging.

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