busy work
Written on 12 January 2005 | Posted in me,site stuff,tech soup | 10 Comments
I’ve been a busy site-owning bee for the past 24 hours, ever since I found this WordPress plugin that creates static pages based on your template/layout. To wit: about, images, contact, book index, and site design archive. There will be others before long, oh you betcha.
Also, along with eating one’s leafy vegetables and cleaning out one’s eavestroughs, one would do well to read The Morning News on a regular basis. There, to-day, I read a lovely piece on a tantalizing project, whereby the author collects discarded photographs and compiles them in a charming, if somewhat haunting, gallery.
Do you leaf through discarded photographs at flea markets? I do. And postcards. Preferably ones with correspondence on the back. It makes me wonder at the people in the pictures, and about the lives of the travellers and the ones they leave behind (“The weather is here, wish you were beautiful”). And why didn’t someone save those pictures and postcards? It is, somehow, a strange indignity for a 5¢ tag to be affixed to someone’s memories.
Later that day (when the author recalls wanting to post this link days ago, and almost decides against posting it to-day due to waning outrage, but then has said outrage rekindled by re-reading the article): no doubt you are as shocked and horrified by this as I am.
oh i really like your book index page – all that info at a glance, it’s great.
12 January 2005 @ 12:17
Yay for the new static pages!
You might also like bighappyfunhouse.com, a Chicago found-photo web site (now with contests too).
12 January 2005 @ 12:54
Those new pages look great
I also look through pictures at flea markets. They’re fascinating. There was a period where most (or maybe all) pictures were studio portraits and those are fun to look at too.
12 January 2005 @ 14:32
I love old photographs (instant ancestors!). Somewhat related – In the house we stayed in for New Years Eve, there was an antique autograph book from the turn of the century. It wasn’t celebrity autographs, but more of what we write in yearbooks, sans pictures. You wouldn’t believe the penmanship of these people. Calligraphy, all of it! If they could see what has happened to handwriting over the years…
12 January 2005 @ 14:38
Thanks for posting this plugin! This is exactly what I have been looking for!
12 January 2005 @ 15:00
I missed that Atwood story in the Globe. Thanks for posting the link. It is pretty outrageous (especially the part about her being an old -age -pensioner AND a famous author. Cry me a river!)
12 January 2005 @ 17:14
The book index is quite nifty! I’m mostly impressed that you’ve recorded everything you’ve read over the past few years
12 January 2005 @ 20:04
No shock or horror here. I heard her on As It Happens the other day, and it sounded like a useful tool for over-worked authors.
12 January 2005 @ 22:33
I had missed the Atwood article, too, so was eager to take a look. Unfortunately, the whole article is part of the “Insider”, which is paid content. I know that they have a 14 day free trial but I am always reluctant to give over my credit card # over to “free” things.
14 January 2005 @ 16:12
Laura – I don’t blame you. Sorry about the link, when I originally posted it it was part of the free content on the site.
The G&M is making me very angry lately.
15 January 2005 @ 14:42