close

Subscriptions

josephdunphy

Last seen: 14 hours ago

Joseph is a guy from Chicago, Illinois, USA

Politically Moderate, Underemployed Jewish Applied Mathematician / Electrical Engineer tutoring all knowing freshmen in Mathematics. This profile, like most of the Web, is optimized for a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, and must be viewed in Internet Explorer. A more complete listing of posts, including archived ones, can be found on the introduction page for this site, and is backed up on this page at Googlegroups, with occasional commentary found on Stumbling into the Void on Tribe.

Please click on "list" to see this blog the way it was meant to be viewed. You can return to your ring here.

  • josephdunphys blog - StumbleUpon

    Rated Dec 14 2008 • 7 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com






    Hi, again. I'm in the process of turning this profile into something that will be more of a blog. A recurring theme will be my attempts to build on what I've seen on some of the sites I've reviewed; what did I learn from visiting them, what subjects did they touch on, etc. You might have noticed the continued post format I was playing around with on the Draka and Steak Porn Video reviews; expect to see more of that, with some of the short, one-liner reviews moved into the spaces between the essays. What I'm trying to get away from is the idea of Stumbleupon as a bookmarking site, as I move toward making this into a site that one can simply sit down and feel comfortable reading; more like a magazine and less like a phonebook, or something like that.

    Comments about Stumbleupon related drama, past and present, can be found elsewhere, if you really want to read about that for some reason.




    Browser selection - Please pardon the imperious tone in my comments above, but Stumbleupon surprised us by changing the background color on our pages. In IE, my blog has a black background, and you can see the links. In Firefox and Chrome, the background is white, so you can't, unless you have logged into Stumbleupon, in which case you might see a black background even after you log out, again. Very silly. I can't imagine what they were thinking about, when they did this. It definitely damages the functionality of our pages, and causes a needless headache for visitors to SU.

    I regret any inconvenience, but would point out that this wasn't my idea or doing, and that unlike the SU staff, I have no say in it. If you'd like to know when this will be fixed, they're the ones to ask. I wouldn't have the faintest idea, myself.


  • Created Dec 14 2008 •




    What's the deal with these "earlier unrelated blog post" links, you ask. Answer: Dealing with a surprise provided to us, free of charge, by Stumbleupon. As you may know, one tends to always be logged on, on Stumbleupon and yes, keep that in mind the next time you send a message to a friend who is "currently logged in" and wonder why you're not getting a reply for a few hours - the friend may well be asleep, and just have left his computer on, as many of us often do in these days of increasingly available broadband. The result of this is that we often don't see how our blogs look to those not logged into StumbleUpon until, ummm, we bother to look at our pages in another browser. Then, sometimes, we find ourselves faced with an unhappy surprise.

    Only the first five pages are visible to them. However, you might note that my profile belongs to a number of webrings, so I really should make an effort to make my content available to everybody travelling those rings, not just those currently logged in. Stumbleupon offers a way to make that possible, however indirectly: one can link to the individual page for a post, and that page will be visible to everybody. StumbleUpon gets to do what it does, the ringmasters get what they want, and everybody is happy except for me, poor kvetching me, who has to find a way to slip those links into his text in a way that isn't completely obtrusive. Oh, look, here are some more ...



    31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40



    "Yes, Joseph, that was subtle, and what made it even subtler was setting those numbers in bold". One does one's best. So, one finds a post with a bunch of those little green numbers on it, that takes one back to a group of earlier posts, maybe one of which has some more little green numbers, and the posts all sort of interconnect, even without the help of the offsite blog post listings. For those who like to bounce around inside a site, I throw this one out as an option, and for everybody else, ... I don't know, you can put down bets on how long I'll be able to keep this up, before I just get tired of it.

    Keep in mind, though, it is February in Chicago. The beach might not be beckoning for a while.