Didn't accomplish much today. Got a bit sidetracked with an ISP search and then a security discussion on my mail server list for home. I'd detail the discussion more in my home blog if I had one, but I haven't gotten around to setting that up yet.
Sent out the latest issue of 2061 Connections. Went to 3680 addresses. I think the list has grown a little. Got a good number back, though. And was caught by a few more spam filters than normal as well. I think some may be the same filters that have caught us before. I'll need to check and if we go through this on the next mailing I'll remove them. In the end it's not even a 1% return because of filters so I'm not particularly concerned. Still, it'll be nice to implement the automated system ... whenever we get around to building it.
There were a few returns as well, but we (or rather I) seem to have done be weeding out the bad addresses based on past mailings. Naturally there will always be a few returns each mailing ... but we seem to get more quota violations than bad addresses these days.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Monday, November 29, 2004
HS Bio Textbook Report
Having trouble coming up with a decent navigation scheme. It's unfortunate, but the content is probably too deep for the simplified left-side navigation. I'm sure if I spent some time on it I could come up with something better. Perhaps when the textbook reviews are unified under a standard architecture I can work on something like that. Ideally I should be able to put these in XML and use on-the-fly rendering. I think that would probably allow for some flexible navigation and (one of MK's long-standing requests) the ability to generate a single document for printing (in PDF format perhaps?).
Made some minor updates to the stylesheet so that I could use html header tags to indicate the document structure. Not many programs make effective use of html hierarchy, but that's no reason to ignore it.
Think I've got an idea for navigating the reports once you've chosen a book. A little show-hide action and simulated buttons. But I'll need a good "you are here" scheme.
Need to talk to CT about the templates. There are requests to have easy access to the indicators. One option is to further divide the template so that I can provide indicator information inline with the document (perhaps using CSS+JS to enhance the usability). Another option, use JS to profide on-the-fly information on the current indicator. I dunno, not all indicators are specifically addressed, so I'll need to find out what kind of consistency there is across reports (may need to implement optional regions to attain the desired flexibility).
Made some minor updates to the stylesheet so that I could use html header tags to indicate the document structure. Not many programs make effective use of html hierarchy, but that's no reason to ignore it.
Think I've got an idea for navigating the reports once you've chosen a book. A little show-hide action and simulated buttons. But I'll need a good "you are here" scheme.
Need to talk to CT about the templates. There are requests to have easy access to the indicators. One option is to further divide the template so that I can provide indicator information inline with the document (perhaps using CSS+JS to enhance the usability). Another option, use JS to profide on-the-fly information on the current indicator. I dunno, not all indicators are specifically addressed, so I'll need to find out what kind of consistency there is across reports (may need to implement optional regions to attain the desired flexibility).
Web Site Updates
New Atlas workshop information has been posted to the development site. Not sure about pricing yet, so I haven't finalized the registration forms. Also not sure about scholarships. Need to start working on PDF files for the workshop since they'll be requested.
2061 Connections is pretty much ready to go. Need to have communications review the articles one more time and send a sample newsletter for review.
2061 Connections is pretty much ready to go. Need to have communications review the articles one more time and send a sample newsletter for review.
Checking the locks
Looking through the log files nothing seems to be out of the ordinary at work.
On my home server I got the usual number of exploits. One little gem, though, was that one of those happened to be from a business with their own range. After a little digging I was able to come up with their domain. No web site to speak of so I'm not sure if the e-mail I sent to postmaster will get to anyone. Probably some new company that just got on the net. Seeing as they're already exploit scanning they'll probably need some help securing their network.
I was bad and did a little snooping. Not enough to gleam any information, and certainly not enough to cause any trouble. But really, I shouldn't be doing any amount of poking without permission ... especially from the office.
On my home server I got the usual number of exploits. One little gem, though, was that one of those happened to be from a business with their own range. After a little digging I was able to come up with their domain. No web site to speak of so I'm not sure if the e-mail I sent to postmaster will get to anyone. Probably some new company that just got on the net. Seeing as they're already exploit scanning they'll probably need some help securing their network.
I was bad and did a little snooping. Not enough to gleam any information, and certainly not enough to cause any trouble. But really, I shouldn't be doing any amount of poking without permission ... especially from the office.
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