Website...Upgraded (Again)

Over the past couple days, I've been delving into the additional features provided by the extremely powerful jQuery JavaScript library. Some of the best things are fades and other animations, which I've used to enhance the warning and message banners that appear on the site from time to time. They now fade in gracefully when the page finishes loading, and slide out the top after a short while. You can see the effect, whether you have an account or not, at http://web.augsburg.edu/~werlm/cada/?msg=outnote (msg=outnote designates that a banner should appear). You should have Firefox to actually view the website.

Ooh, Macintosh UI...

I found a new theme for Firefox 2 yesterday: macfox II. It skins most of the UI (there are some things it misses) with the OS X theme from the Apple. It looks cool. Much as I hate Macs, I've been using it for only 24 hours and already I'm in love with the theme.

Valentines' Day... Ho Hum

So, today was Valentines' Day, huh? A Hallmark holiday if I ever saw one. I did get some entertainment in orchestra today, though. As a result of this holiday, too. A group of kids, apparently going around the school delivering Valentines' songs, sang one of their songs in our class. "Oh say can you see/That John-John loves you?..." to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner". The whole class cracked up. That would be worth having Valentines' Day every day, if only that would happen all the time.
I know, I know, this has nothing to do with technology or computing, but it had to be said.

My Sig...Gone (Again)

Ok, more complaints about my signature. I had to change it again. It's plain text now, with superscript and subscript for variety. Oh well. Some things just don't last. At least I didn't have to change my nickname... Now I can finally go back to my normal routine without worrying about anything.

Contributions for Deleted Articles are Deleted?!

It turns out that, on any MediaWiki site, deleting a page removes those contributions from the users that edited the page. Bah! Now I know why Speedy-Delete tags aren't found much in user contribs...though I would appreciate my contributions being attributed to ME, even after the article is deleted...

My Sig...Back

After a little more editing and other stuff, I found a better way to have my Wikipedia signature: use a template. I got some tips from Eacz12, who uses a template for their signature, and did the same thing. It works fine. WP:SIG says not to use templates in sigs, but it cites cache updates as the reason. Since I don't plan to change my signature, I don't think this is an issue. If I do decide to change it (a remote possibility), it'll update on all pages. Neat, huh?

One Thousand and Counting

I just hit 1,000 edits on the English Wikipedia! Granted, a lot of them are AfD votes and vandal reverts, but they all count. I made Wikipedia a better project, and all in less than a year. I wonder where I'll be at by the one-year anniversary of my joining Wikipedia? 1,500? 2,000?

My Sig...Gone

In a bout of Wikipedia Articles for Deletion discussions, I littered several dozen pages with a four-six line signature. Apparently, MER-C wasn't too happy with it, since he added a comment to my talk page advising me to shorten my signature. I did, but it now ends up all on one line. It looks like this now: Tuvok^{^Talk|Desk|Contribs}

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It used to look like: Tuvok^^{Talk|Desk|Contribs}

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Which is prettier? The second one, of course. And the one I have now, while shorter, makes one long line, and forces a horizontal scrollbar in the edit box. I've asked for assistance remedying this.