AnalogDuck.com has a shiny new look, and just around the corner are a navigation makeover and a theme selecter, including an option for a minimal, handheld-friendly layout.

I just installed the TinyMCE module for Drupal. This is my first posting with it. It let's me do stuff in a WYSIWYG environment like:

• Bulleted lists
• Font styles
• CSS styles
• Çustom ch∂r∂cters
• Hyperlinks
• Images
• and more
  

It's got plugins for spell-checking, saving local html files, and so on.
So far, so good.

Okay, so I've noticed a number of glitches and features I am less than happy with. First off, tinyMCE likes to rewrite my HTML if I edit a previously created node. This would be fine and dandy, only it takes my pretty, well-formatted HTML and makes it a single, run-on line of code. Now even that would be okay if I was never going to have to see it again. However, tinyMCE only performs a small portion of the HTML tagging I tend to write on a regular basis. That small portion is the stuff I use in the greatest frequency, and so is sufficient for most jobs, but when I need to do something such as add a <code> or <blockquote> set of tags, I need to edit the raw HTML to do so. Now that tinyMCE has mangled the HTML, it is damn-near impossible to read or find anything. So...

Just about to upgrade.

I now get enough regular, random emailings that I might as well post an article regarding my DJ identity so as to dispel any doubts. If you've heard some totally addictive mix of music by a DJ Analog Duck, or DJ AnalogDuck, and you're wondering, "Who in tarnation is this obviously insane DJ with the mad skills and the music collection from Hades?", you no doubt went straight to the book of all knowing to ask, bringing you here to this page.

It's true, I am the DJ Analog Duck, and this is my wacky web site. While perhaps an article such as this might come off as being ego-centric, if you had peeked about elsewhere on this site, you'd find little if any clues which indicate the fact of my occasioning DJ identity, and thus the reason for this posting today. It would seem all I ever bother to post about around here would be long-winded and mind-numbing prattlings of systems administration. Not surprising, as I spend just about all of my waking hours working on, er... work. I only just now migrated my Quack Wok Stir-fry track listing a few minutes ago from my now-decommissioned AnaBlogDuck, er... blog, in support of this article.

I do feel that you should know, however, that the actual, original, inane name I chose to don was in fact DJ Analog Duck in a Cuisinart. This was then shortened out of blatantly insulting intent to be DJ Analog Duck by my original 12 or so fans who, having to put up with me on a regular basis, would only indulge me just so far. Besides, my hand got tired of writing the whole damned name after scrawling it on hundreds of CD-Rs, and it didn't help that the damned event promoters refused to put the lengthy name on their fliers, or that the people like the lad at Philosomatika broadcasting my sets on the Intardnet had shortened my name in their playlists to its abbreviated form, or that I my own use of the English language would eventually devolve into l33t speak CamelCase inducing me to whimsically name all of my IM and online community accounts as AnalogDuck, and culminating in my development of AnalogDuck.com.

Your IP address is:

38.103.63.57

If you have a PHP-enabled web server and care to make your own web page like this one, this page was created with the code:

<p>Your IP address is:
  <?PHP
    echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
  ?>
</p>

A collection of useful tools and resources for various IT tasks. This is starting as a small list, but I have a lot in mind to add as I can make time.

Clues for AnalogDuck.com Residents

Disable paragraph indents like so:

<p class="left">content goes here</p>

Example:

content goes here

These are some items I'm tracking on Drupal.org:

• Page after login should be configurable
  I've figured out and documented the hack there, but I'm still looking forward to seeing the feature properly integrated.
• Event items for August 31st are not showing up in calendar view
• Root menu node displays "There are currently no posts in this category."
• Can't Edit Other Users' Book Pages

I have decided that I'm going to start blogging my list of things that I'd like to try but haven't yet. Maybe I'll get some interesting feedback regarding something in this list. That would be good, because though I really like to play with new things, it is always nice to learn through other peoples' sufferings rather than my own. And after, who knows when I'll have the time to get around to this stuff anyhow.

Besides, I can't help but sometimes feel, when digging through the Intardnet and chancing something that catches my fancy, as though... if it were not blogged, it never existed.