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We're in the middle of an upgrade
I've upgraded the site to the latest Drupal. If you come on over and look around, you will find some new interesting features. I still have a lot to do, but just wanted to put it out there for you to try and see if you figure out what's new. Also, I am going to change the design a bit. I am adding a fourth colum to the left and pulling to the front all the blogging tools you have tucked away and in your account pages. It's been very confusing to people how to post articles and were to find their blogging tools. Well, with the new collapsible blocks (oops, gave away one of the new features), we'll be able to have more stuff in the front but without the clutter. So let's make this a forum of wishlists. What do you wish for? BTW : I had to flush the cache and the logs to do this upgrade. You will notice it says there's only a few people online. That should be corrected in the next couple of hours. Also, apologies for any inconvenience the dumping of the logs and cache (and maybe anything you were writing at the time) may have caused to any of you.
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Liza, blog goddess
Allow me, if you will, a moment of geek rapture, and to present you with our shiny, newly revamped and sexed-up blog platform over at The Daily Gotham.
Go ahead, take a look. See how gorgeous it is; bask in its bloggy goodness.
What you'll see, all prettiness aside, is a kick-ass publishing platform that's marvelously easy to use, loads nicely, looks great and works like a charm. And while I claim partial credit for the look and feel of it, the heavy lifting - and it was heavy - was done by our very own Liza. Everyone, give her a round of applause, and stay tuned, because Culture Kitchen is next.
Me, I think it's going to kick ass. In fact, I'm sure of it.
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Problems with WORKSPACE
Nezua has identified a problem with accessing [workspace|workspace]. There also seems to be a problem with the drop-down menus.
Just wanted you to know I'm looking into it. I've been doing development work, which is why I have not been blogging for a while. Coding consumes every waking moment whenever I plunge into it, but it's for a good reason.
If you want to know what's coming to our site, you may want to take a look at Hollywoodistas.com. With my new template and Michael's new design, we're looking to deal with usability issues with the new design. I'll have a longer post on the new design.
In the meantime, please use this post to let me know what other problems you've had with the site, any ideas on how to make it better and, last but not least, throw a praise or two my way. After all this development work, I always need a hug 
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Flipping the switch on a new site design
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So what's new?
I switched the navigation and blogging tools menus to the top of the sidebar on the left. Since they are collapsible, you can just open and close them as you need.
Hate it? Love it? I want to know it all.
Before you go on hating though, I want you all to know that this was more than just an exercise in designing a Drupal site. I am trying to find add more space to make more visible the work and interaction of regular members. I want to find ways of making visible the way people interact in the site --so it's not just the front-pagers who get featured and highlighted. Â
Here's what I feel about it at the moment: It's busy. I do like the new molotov-guy design. I do think that the actual logo (the word culturekitchen) could be much, much smaller.
What do you think?
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Do you want to know what Ive been working on these past couple of days?
- Go to your home page
- Click on edit
- Scroll down to find the Theme Configuration.
- Click on culturekitchen_red.2
This is the design I am working on at the moment. Please note that it is far from finished; but if you want to see what I am obsessed with at the moment, you can switch to this design and see it change right before your very eyes. If all the changes make you crazy, then switch back to the original (which is culturekitchen_red).
Use this post to log your questions or comments on the new design. All imput and opinions are most certainly welcomed.
A List of Features | Administrivia | Design | Web Development
Features galore that just need testing
Come out, come out wherever you are...
I'm not asking you to come out of the closet :lol: I'm asking you to come and play on the site --especially if you are one of the thousands of people reading us through our feeds.
In the past few weeks I have been working on the technology and design of culturekitchen. Check out our growing list of features. I actually have a longer post to make about what I am rolling out this weekend; but right now I need your help with two things :
A List of Features | Administrivia | Collaboration | Design | Drupal | User Interface | Web Development
Faster pussycat, blog blog blog
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Work on the databases is going on right now.
We're trying to deal with the performance issues a lot of you are experience. A page ought not take more than just a couple of seconds to load. So apologies for the problems.
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In the meantime, enjoy a view of the weird world of Semana Santa (Holy Week) in Sevilla.
Penitents of 'San Gonzalo' brotherhood participate in a Holy Week procession in Seville, southern Spain, Monday April 10, 2006. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Calling on the Seven African Powers to protect the server
A certain person who shall remain unnamed practices Santeria. Now, given this person is probably a poster child for the US Heartland, I've just got to say that it totally knocked me over when said person mentioned the orishas.
WOW! Santeros are everywhere.
I grew up with santeria (yes, my parents were Catholics and Pagans) and so I've spent most of my life walking away from it. As y'all know, I'm an atheist. But ... but ... this , person has been telling, "you know, light a candle, girl, light a candle". Of course, I've hemmed and hawed about it. Then Mr. Man reminded me of a story he read somewhere.
An anthropologist is in some South Pacific island. The "natives" are performing a ceremony before building a fence. The anthropologist asks why to his translator. The translator thinks for a moment and says : "The magic wroks best when we build a strong fence". The prayer, the ceremony, the rituals are not because magic is in them, it's because magic happens when people believe it will be so. It gives them strenght, pumps them up, energizes them, inspires them.
Well, I'm gonna pump that server up.
Here you've got it, las siete potencias africanas, who will hopefully maintain the smooth going of our site :
If you need to know ... my guardian angel or orisha is Oshun (we write it Ochun in Puerto Rico). The colors of the old culturekitchen were an homage to my potencia : golden yellow, green, white and orange.
More after the jump...
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Cautiously optimistic
The good news is, the site is back up. The bad news is, we still have not gotten the new server. Hopefully the transition will go smoothly and the added RAM will have this site hopping.
Hopefully.
Loading times in Firefox on my Powerbook G4 are still slowish. If you have slower machines, can you tell me how bad it is on your end? Safari seems to be the only browser to load with no problems ... although the site looks a bit funky in it.
The image galleries are all out of whack. I will be working on them throughout the weekend. This would be a good time to contribute to my caffeine, acetominophen and Snickers fund.
The real bad news is that I tore down the site I had built using CivicSpace to rebuild it using my own Drupal mix. Pitty. I had real high hopes for CivicSpace. It really is not ready for a consumer market.
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I'm just going to stand here for the rest of my life
Title courtesy of Charles Schultz
Now you know what happens when I get my period.
I get totally mysanthropic and the energy that I throw out there comes back in the way of imploding websites, giant zits, stupid rants and cyatic pain with more imploding technology.
It's like I'm Charlie Brown and blogs are my kites. The blogosphere hates me, I hate it back. The problem is that we are both obstinate, opinionated and egotastical and neither of is backing down.
The post "Cry me a river" is gone along with JJ's last post (the one that for some reason made the site implode). Somehow the comments are in the database, so I'll gather those around soon.
I'm just going to say this : I grew up with Charlie Brown and I could totally relate to his losing his temperament a lot of the time along with his stubborness and his seeming inability to back down.
Lucy also had those qualities but the difference between Lucy and Chuck was that Lucy always had control of the ball and she always took it away from him.
When Charles Schultz died, it broke my heart that he did so without giving Chuck the happy ending. Charlie Brown never got to tell the little red haired girl how he felt. Charlie Brown also went out without ever feeling his feet punt just for once against that pig skin.
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Administrivia
So last night we upgraded the server. The Daily Gotham and this little blog here were sucking up all the RAM juice from the old poor thing. Which means that soon I have to come up with a more creative way to pay for the blogs.
Advertising has been going down for the past two months and, quite frankly, I do not know what to do about the trend. We also have a problem with traffic that I will describe in a following post.
As it is at the moment, all our trickling advertising revenue is going directly to the servers. That's really not cool ... but I also hate fundraisers because they really are financial band-aids. So people, if you have any ideas, throw them my way.
With the new server though, things should run smoothly here. We should be done with the outages and all the trouble with posting blogs and comments. If they were to again though, please, remember to send me a note to
And make sure you give me the following : What were you doing (reading, writing a blog, commenting), at what time it happened, and what kind of browser (Windows IE, Firefox, Safari) and what platform (Mac OSX, Windows, Linux) were you using.
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Blogging made easier with a bit of code
What is a blogging bookmarklet? It is a piece of code you put on the bookmarks or favorites toolbar of your browser. When you want to grab a quote fromm an article on the net, all you have to do is :
(1) highlight the text
(2) click on the bookmarklet
What the javacript in the code will do is pull-out the text highlighted text as a blockquote with a link back to the page; including the title of the article (if it is available on the page's source code).
So take this culturekitchen Blog It! bookmarklet and drop it in your Safari or Firefox browser.
If you have a bit of a problem dropping it in, you can manually create a bookmark in both browsers by dropping the code in the URL section of a bookmark.