Just for the hell of it
Sadly that malicious rumour about me is true.
I can be a bit of a messer.
I like messing around with stuff. As soon as I lay my hands on something I like to take it apart, and maybe see if I can make it do something that it’s not supposed to do. I just like to know how things work. Last week was a perfect example when I took a clock apart on the kitchen table until Herself complained about all those screws and cogs and bits of brass all over the place and I had to put it back together again [and yes – it did work perfectly after].
I like messing around with this site too.
Every now and then I add something to it, or remove something depending on my mood. No one seems to notice, or at least I haven’t had any comments or complaints if they have.
A few weeks ago I added a wee yoke to the menu – The Big Post List. It does what it says. It lists every post I have ever scribbled so it is quite a long list. I’m not sure of its value as either people haven’t noticed it or they just couldn’t be bothered investigating. I don’t even bother with it myself and I only put it there because I could.
This morning I had another little flash of absolute genius idea.
That little brain fart has now taken shape and resides on the sidebar in resplendent red and yellow near the top ——>
My Random Post Lottery.
Again, it doesn’t really do that much. You click on the link and it throws up a random page. However, I had to test it and I found myself reading shit I don’t even remember writing, which isn’t really surprising as I can’t even remember what I wrote the day before. However, I tried it a few times and it brought back some nice memories.
It is completely random and I have no control over it. It just selects a post from somewhere in the past which could be last week or ten years ago.
Anyway, it’s now there for anyone who wants to try it.
I’ll probably remove it again sometime.
Just for the hell of it.
Ooooh a lottery…I like!
Tried it out and won this prize:
Quitting smoking is bad for you – Part two
January 18, 2007
Hah! One of the dangers of the Interweb – links that don’t work any more! This site is probably crawling with them.
Yep. For example the “Valuable links” link in your “Smoking” link.
:-)))))
You did want feedback!
Ah! That link does work, but I suspect the problem lies with your screen size. “Valuable Links” should open up another drop-down box of links but it insists on shoving that drop-down to the right, which may be off your screen? Just a guess. I’l see what I can do to fix that.
Is that any better??
Slightly. I can indeed now see that there is another drop down box – but most of it is still out of the screen. I need to reduce the screen size (Frefox) to 80% in order to see it completely.
Good grief! It’s way over to the left of my screen now. You must have a screen that is very small, yet not quite small enough to be classed as a tablet? The theme is supposed to adapt to whatever size it’s viewed on.
You’ve moved the “Smoking” button! Great! Now I can see the links in the drop down.
And, btw, no, I’m not using a small tablet like monitor. 😉
The drop down didn’t adapt.
A bit of a disappointment that your ‘random selection’ doesn’t show comments. I can understand why the comments are closed, but it would have been nice to see the comments posted at the time. I think in many cases the comments are as interesting as the post. Or perhaps I should re-phrase that. The comments add value to the post, and thus make the whole more interesting as a result.
But comments are displayed, or rather they are on my screen? Maybe you just discovered a post with no comments?
Actually there is one thing to note – in the earlier days of the site comments weren’t nested which led to some rather awkward reading [rather like Twitter].
Ah, just tried it again, and I got comments this time. First time all I got was ‘comments are disabled’. Maybe nobody commented that day. I see what you mean about the nesting – it leads to a rather incoherent timeline when they’re just one after another.
Hah! I punched that Random Post thingie as soon as I arrived on your site today (kind of hard to miss) and got this:
Easter Rising and Floating
However, it was the next post from that one that caught my eye:
Tiddles is Back
It actually lived up to my expectations I got from the title.