All I wanted was a sodding plugin that would tell me when all you bastards update your sites, so I don’t have to sit down here four times a day to run through my ENTIRE gotdamned link list just to read something new.
Finding the plugin was the easy part. Except, oops, widget-only, and this piece de shite theme (on the backend anyway) has never been widget-aware. Fuckit, I said, I’m widgetizing this bitch.
Eight fucking hours later – having stomped around and cursed for a bit, then finally tearing down the asshole theme and rebuilding it with decent fucking code – it looks a little different, but the fucking thing is now widget-fucking-aware.
Only to find the blogroll plugin adds something on the order of TWO HUNDRED ERRORS to my validation check.
*pours tequila*
Not that I generally give a rat’s ass about standards-validation. There are just too many operating systems and browsers out there to worry about pleasing them all. This bitch looks its regular smokin’ self in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It looks like it’s having a grand mal seizure in IE but you shouldn’t be using that pissant browser anyway.
Now, onward.
Why not just use something like RSS Bandit or Google’s reader?
Robb Allen
January 5th, 2009
Um…because?
Liberty Girl
January 5th, 2009
Dammit, now I have to update more often so I can stay at the top of your blogroll.
Oh, and leaving IE out of the mix…not a problem. But, it doesn’t look too bad in IE. Fewer shaded areas, but not bad all in all.
folly
January 5th, 2009
@folly:
It’s mainly the sidebar titles, I just like saying “grand mal.”
Liberty Girl
January 5th, 2009
I use Safari on my trusty Macs, and the new design looks mah-velous.
D.W.
January 5th, 2009
shouldn’t and “have no choice because I’m at work” are mutially exclusive, unfortunately. As sad as it is, it’s still a Microsquish world out here …
pete in Midland
January 6th, 2009
Who the hell is using IE? Who? Really. And why? Why?
I ask the tough questions.
dogette
January 7th, 2009
I second the RSS suggestion.
nukemhill
January 7th, 2009