I’ll be working on template design I’m playing with tonight, so things might not appear so pretty. Please don’t write that the design sucks until it’s finished.
UPDATE: I’m almost finished with the new design, but I’m having serious problems with the font size on the sidebar with Firefox. It also seems the text in the main post section is too small in Firefox as well. Anyway, I’d appreciate any help on rectifying the sidebar issue — the new design is Dark Maple (see Themes on the sidebar).
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Comment section comes up illegibly small on both MAC Mozilla and Explorer for me.
“… the design sucks until it??s finished.”
But it DOES suck until it’s finished!
CTRL++ is your friend slim
You can only use 2 themes at a time? For what it’s worth, I kinda liked the green theme, which seems to be gone.
I like the dark maple theme. But I wouldn’t want it to replace the green tea theme or the hwangto tan theme.
I can read the comment section fine with Mac Safari.
I still say that it would be a nice idea, on the main page, to have a “last comment posted at such-and-such time” line for each post.
Since you do get so many posts, it’s easy for the list of recent comments at right to have been reset several times since someone has last checked the blog.
I enjoy the blog so much, I’d rather not miss anything, and I know that after a period of half a day or more of being away I’m not the only one who checks individual posts to see when the last comment was. If that information were on the main page, it could save time and bandwidth (I’m guessing this might be contributing to your high bandwidth usage, if that still is an issue).
Awww…don’t ditch the green tea theme. Bring back please.
Love the green tea - it’d be a shame to see it go.
Was the Boseong/Bosng Green Tea theme ditched? I’m still viewing this page in that theme as I type these very words. Geez, now I’m afraid to exit my web browser, on the chance I reconnect to the Marmot’s Hole and can’t get this theme back! Oh no!
On second thought, the abolition of the Green Tea theme is probably just a counterproductive rumour dreamt up by some particularly scurrilous readers.
Well, I exited and re-entered, but thankfully, it’s still good old ???? ??????. But I’m afraid to delete my cookies now. Once I do that, it’s anybody’s guess what them I’ll end up with.
Sorry, that last sentence should read “theme,” not “them.”
Curious wrote:Curious, as anal as you get about your typos, I think your best bet would be Hwangto Tan.
I’d give it a try, but looking at the sidebar, it looks like Hwangto Tan is the one that got ditched (the choices being Boseong Tea Green, Dark Maple, and Plain Vanilla).
Ah, Boseong Tea Green is back. You’re back on my Christmasu cardu listu, Robert.
I was making a dumb joke, Curious. Anal… tan-colored stuff…
Okay, but the Hwangto tan one is also nice. I say keep them all, including the Dark Maple.
Maybe you can offer the option of changing the theme each day, Marmot.
The design-in-progress looks very genteel, even yangbang-esque.
Oooh, “Dark Maple” is very nice, very sedate, very tastefully ????????. Good job, Marmot!
Kushibo: Your sophisticated humour just went right over my head.
Marmot, I’ve having a hard time making sense of the Hanja under “The Marmot’s Hole” in the upper right-hand corner of the painting in Dark Maple.
(?????? readings courtesy of Naver):
?? ?????? ?, ?????? ??
??? ?????? ??
? ???????? ??, ?????????? ??
? ?????? ??
Okay, so it’s not a phonetic rendering of anything (?/???????, etc. doesn’t sound like “Marmot”), and I notice that ???? (??) means “exclusion (expulsion) of foreigners.”
So a translation might be: ???? ???????? ???? (”High and bright exclusion of foreigners”) or perhaps ?????? ?????? ??????? ????? (”Exclusion of foreigners as bright as a wine cup”).
????? ??????? ???????????????????.
Sorry, ??? should have read “?????? ??.”
Another possibility is that you meant ????????? ????????? ???? ??? ??????: “Bright, dizzy, and tall foreigner” (translating ????? and ????? as “tall” and “bright” and retranslating into Korean accordingly), or ?????????? ??????? ????????? ??????????: “If the wine goblet is bright, it will repel barbarians,” the sort of line the writer of a bad Hollywood martial arts film might attribute to one of its characters.
Ah, okay: I see that 4-character term turns up in a lot of Naver search results (here) and there is what appears to be an explanation of the term here, but I don’t have the time now to read the links and figure out what it means, except that the ??? evidently refers to China (i.e., ????).
I assume it’s the same thing as this:
????????? [???????????] - A Chosun era foreign policy founded on Confucian principles of duty that refers to respecting China and expelling the Oranckays.
If you’re not getting the results you want looking up the characters one at a time in a hanja dictionary try an encyclopedia or just an Internet search.
????? ????? ?????:
Thanks. I tried that after I didn’t get what I wanted, as my last comment explains, though as I wrote, I didn’t have time to read the explanations I found.
I didn’t know Oranckay was old or important enough to have been the subject of Chosn-era foreign policy, however!
Clearly, blogging Korean expats have been around for a long time….. =P
Amazing! The new format has cured Kushibo’s comments.