On vacation.

A few days ago I wrote somewhere on this site the bad translation of a quote from Michel Maffesoli:
Who writes a book is who reads it.

I started to think more about this line, in particular because I linked it to the “experience of the world”. Going back to theories about life. You know, some think that all you do in your life is already written, others say that you are the owner of your destiny. You write it by yourself. And then there’s a third part that says that it’s a blend of the two previous positions or a fourth part that says that all is simply casual.

But casual isn’t correct. The world (concretely) works as a complex web of relationships. The theories about Chaos explain that everything is linked together in an absurd relationship and whatever happens, even minimal, has a strong and unpredictable influence on all the rest. This is what we call “random”, casual. Casual because we are unable to keep track of everything and the world reach a degree of complexity so high that it’s unattainable for us. We give up to understand all that and we go back to babble about “faith” and “chance”.

But I discovered a new way to consider “life”. Life as a book. Going back to the quote of Michel Maffesoli. Try to re-read it and think your own life as a book and that book about your life is the one you are reading.

I won’t wrote what I started to think from that point but it’s quite fascinating. I think it’s better to share that by pointing the path. If you want you can follow this path.

And this sickens me. If you want to do something do it by yourself and for yourself.

Now let’s sit and watch the wrecking.

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Why have I mailed them?
Don’t loose your sleep on it, not worth it.
(maybe in another reality this is the biggest news ever)

Blah, depressed.

I have various things to write but I guess I’ll just go see Akira Kurosawa’s dreams.

Perhaps later.

I’ve put a few more hours into templates and html code. I obtained a nice result to see once again that IE was showing that completely different from Firebird, so I had to “rollback”.

The search page and function is also updated with many options. If you use it from the “home” you’ll search by default in all the pages, instead if you are in one of them you’ll search by default only that page (makes sense?).

Now I really would like to know how to reduce the space between empty lines in the posts. And I just had an idea, so I’m going back to try it…

…And it seems to be related. I converted the automated paragraphs with the “br” tag and as you can see the space is reduced in this entry. Both on IE and Firebird. Now I need to find a better solution.

If you notice the time of these posts you can imagine my life. Those aren’t wrong, it’s the time I have here.

I think I’ll go to bed in a few minutes.

I kept working all the night with templates. Oh my god, I cannot stop. HELP ME!

The site “should” be ok now. I think I’m satisfied by the new templates I managed to create (and rip around). I really hated all this. Once I thought I was done, with the site looking ok in Firebird, I loaded it in IE to find all the various part messed.

More than once I got stuck with a single tag messing the site in Firefox or IE. And I had to find various compromises. It’s simply impossible to have the site behaving the same in both browsers.

Now it looks good to me. It’s readable, behaves correctly and is low resolution friendly.

MovableType gives me dependence.

P.S.
Obviously only the homepages on each site work. I still have to mess with the various templates for comments, archives and all the rest. I was happy enough to discover how to make unique links that don’t look like 000000023.html or a nearly infinite string. With various plugins (and tutorials I found around) I produced a nifty result. By default the permalink is generated from the keywords I use in an entry. If I don’t define keywords the permalink is generated directly from the title of the entry. Nifty.

And thanks to whoever helped me in my long researches all over the internet.