Why isn't Northwest Passage our national anthem?

[prillalar]

Canada Day
Yay for us, especially this week! I will celebrate by sitting around in my jammies all morning listening to Stan Rogers and possibly going out to Tim's for a doughnut in the afternoon. My Canada icon is Pierre Trudeau, our fifteenth Prime Minister.

 

Tag Cloud
Oh, the cleverness of me! I have been tweaking with my S2 layout for a few weeks now and continue to tweak. (Frankly, I haven't even looked at it in IE Win yet, so caveat lector.) Today, I figured out how to build in a tag cloud -- a linked list of all the tags I've used. You can see them in the sidebar in my Recent Entries.

Here's the code I inserted into function Page::print ():

# Tags list
if ($p.view == "recent") {

     var Tag[] mytags;
     var string taglist;
     
     $mytags = $p->visible_tag_list();
     
     foreach var Tag t ($mytags) {
          $taglist = "$taglist" + """<li><a href="$t.url">$t.name</a></li>""";
     }
     """<div id="tagcloud"><h3>Tagcloud</h3><ul>$taglist</ul></div>""";
}

Style as desired. If you're comfortable tinkering with S2 or learning how, that should be useful.

 

Fic and Migraines
When I clicked on my fic tag, I noticed that the last three fic-like things I posted all made reference to migraines. I wonder if I've started to come across as someone who has some freaky physical possession bemusement mechanism that manifests itself as splitting headaches and who is going to go out at the weekend to get treppanned.

The truth is that I've been getting a lot of migraines and writing snippets of fic comforts me when I feel lousy. But I've been writing non-drug-induced things as well. I've spent a couple of months working on a Soul-Sucking InuKai story which I've now had to put on hiatus while I wait for my beta to forget it exists solve the structural problems. And I've been writing a non-soul-sucking InuKai I hope to post next week.

 

The Summer of TezuRyo
I've been wanting to get back to these two for some time. My plan for the summer is to re-watch the series with a close eye on their relationship so I can post about it and write about it. (TezuRyo is an anime-only ship for me -- my manga ship is Tezuka/Oishi.)

 

Fuwa
I'm sorry I've ignored your kissing study for so long. Don't crush me!

Comments

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

My plan for the summer is to re-watch the series with a close eye on their relationship so I can post about it and write about it.

Yessss. >:D

[prillalar]

I thought it was about time. :)

[i-smile.livejournal.com]

Is the manga bigger on Tezuka/Oishi? (When I read the first few volumes of the manga, I had the thought that, if I had never watched the anime, I'd probably be really into Ryoma/Kaidoh instead of Ryoma/Tezuka as my Dude, It's Canon ship. So it really is quite different, I guess.)

[prillalar]

The manga isn't really, IMO, shippy about anyone. It's just not a big festival of gayness like the anime. *g* But Oishi's characterization is a little different and there's more emphasis on things between him and Tezuka.

*pretends there's no such thing as RyoKai*

[yukihime9.livejournal.com]

Happy Canada Day to you. :D I checked it out on Wiki, and I had no idea Canada became independent from the UK as late as 1867. I always thought it was earlier for some reason. ^_^;

You don't mind if I use your code to create an tag-list of my own, do you? I don't have much experience in S2, and I've been looking for a way to do that.

[prillalar]

Please feel free to use the code -- that's why I posted it. It will probably need to be tweaked to work with your layout. Mine is based off Punquin Elegant (or whatever the hell it's called).

[meemobunny.livejournal.com]

happy canada day! :D

the tag cloud is so clever (not to mention convenient)! but it's a paid-account-only sort of thing, right? since it requires the use of style sheets?

[prillalar]

Paid-account-only, yes. I can't deal without being able to tweak. :)

[neeteeus.livejournal.com]

Yay TezuRyo!

Happy Canada Day. I shall likewise be making a stop at Tim's. Shall think of you!

[prillalar]

In a fit of recklessness, I had *two* doughnuts!

[kestrelsan.livejournal.com]

I've spent a couple of months working on a Soul-Sucking InuKai story which I've now had to put on hiatus while I wait for my beta to forget it exists solve the structural problems.

Bwahaha. What soul-sucking story? I swear I've forgotten all about it....

My apologies on not commenting on the other one yet--the last couple of days have been kind of crazy. But I'm off to read it now because my office is empty!

[prillalar]

What soul-sucking story? I swear I've forgotten all about it....

Good, good.

I'll have the edited draft of the other story up some time today, I think. I have it written, but I need to do some revisions.

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

FUWA!!!!!

*ahem*

I mean, good luck with the writing, and I hope you're feeling better!

[prillalar]

Hee! I have the next installment planned out, but I need to watch some eps to get the characterization of Fuwa's victim research subject fixed in my head.

God, I adore Fuwa. His blank stare, his inability to relate to people, his "crusher" ways, his frightening intellect -- so darling. :)

[deepfryerfire.livejournal.com]

I think you guys Up There and us Down Here need to get together and celebrate each other's country days, plus the two days in between; so we can have a massive spree of four-day, *continent-wide* MAYHEM. We could give it a sneaky name that sounds like some kind of secret alliance and would have the rest of the UN looking sideways at us trying to figure out what we're up to.

[prillalar]

But that might hurt my campaign to have Canada join the EU. *g*

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

Ah, Stan Rogers. How sad he was taken from us so soon. I have several Stan Rogers albumns bumping around the house. "Giant", "Barrett's Privateers", and "The Idiot's Song" play frequently during working hours.

Happy Canada Day to all!

In other news, I have a friend who believes she her house is haunted by the ghost of Stan Rodgers. She's nutty in other ways, too. I mean, why would Stan haunt a ranch-style house on the side of Mount Helix in San Diego when he could haunt all of Canada?

[prillalar]

Stan in San Diego? I don't think so!

[mmulberry.livejournal.com]

I found your nifty Tag Cloud via musesfool, and would love to use it. My problem is I am programing inept, and while I understand I just need to copy and paste.... where do I paste it? Is it under Manage>>Styles, or Manage>>Customize?

[prillalar]

You need to be in Advanced Customization and you may need to tweak the code to work with your particular style, as some of the variables could be different. It's pretty complex, so I can't really explain it all here. But have a look at the S2 docs, etc. There should be a tutorial on making customization.

via musesfool

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that bit of code! I haven't tried it yet, but it looks neat!

Re: via musesfool

[prillalar]

Cool! Note that you may have to tweak it so it will work with your style -- some of the variables might be different.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks to elishavah, I got the tag cloud to work in my style. On my LJ page at least. Not having luck with adding it to the friends page yet.

But thank you for figuring this out, especially for the S2-illiterate like me. *g*

[nevadafighter.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've been looking for a code like this. Thank you for sharing!