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The last to-do list I published on the blog had the effect of spurring me into action fairly well. So well in fact, I thought I’d do it again; not because I’ve stopped doing stuff, more so I have a reasonable list that I can work to and tick off against.
bimbogami
- restructure db for better stats, better season handling & for ‘new concept’ season 3
- separate the reg/login audit from the answers
- calculate elapsed time and puzzling time per question on completion of question
- calculate these valuse for past users
- amend HoF to show both elapsed time and puzzling time
- amend HoF to sort the players in ‘first past the post’, ‘elapsed’ and ‘puzzling time’ order
- apply my new found CSS skills to the site, progressively (but not extensively)
- look at the structure of things to cater for the ‘new concept’ for season 3 proper
- see if we can bang out another wordle-based music one to keep things moving
- run through the ideas book and see how many decent questions are kicking about
book
- put some structure to the working concept
- write the first chapter
- write a synopsis
(but not necessarily in that order)
blog
- Write a review of CSS Mastery
- Write a review of Don’t Make Me think
I’ve been working on developing a new website on and off for the last couple of weeks. It’s a site for my daughter, who is venturing out on her own as a Marketing Advisor.
It’s a fairly straight-forward site of half a dozen or so pages, and a chance to try out some of the nifty CSS techniques I’d learned from the previously mentioned CSS Mastery book.
Bought myself a new book: “CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions” by Andy Budd. It’s fab. I’ll do a proper review of it at some point, but suffice to say I learned a few good things from it (and some really good things too).
Weirdly, the Amazon ‘favourites’ widget doesn’t seem to like my WordPress template styles. Despite a straight cut-n-paste it displays with a strange padding and border thing going on. Looks like the as-provided widget is built up using sliced images in a table. The response from Amazon to my question about it was less than helpful. (Note: now fixed)
So, look out for better coded CSS stuff from me in the future. Although obviously if it’s that good, the end user won’t notice, but the techies will… 
I must have at least twenty significant things on the to-do list for bimbogami, but I haven’t managed to do get round to completing any of them in the last 2 months or so.
There is actually a number of good reasons to get the proverbial finger out and get some stuff done: Evidence the fact that new registrations have all but dried up, and only a handful of persistent puzzle heroes are still slogging their way through the puzzles. How will I ever make my million from internet puzzling if google-ads are not being clicked and searches done?
I always seem to be able to find something that manages to keep me from getting to a proper end of a single one of these tasks. I’ve been suffering badly from “butterfly syndrome”, and me allegedly a completer-finisher too, sheesh.