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Better content

I'll be doing some experimental changes today, just to see some things.

Content can't be too much, but not enough isn't good either. A content switch will do the trick!

There are different kinds of switches. One type is 'on/off' for the thing in question. The next type says 'on/off' for something in this group of choices, all other choices need to be off. Basically it is a way of limiting resource use by saying 'these high bandwidth, or resource intensive things, can only be used in a limited amount.

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view of the Golden Gate Bridge

Dec 4, 2013 (12-4-2013)

well . . .

I think I've blogged enough today.

"I'm all blogged out."

Content quickly gets stale, wicked, so it is always updated. Some content is hit with updates more often. Also: some of the content here is of a much higher quality than other content here. So if you don't like something: hey dude, whatever.

~ OK Now.

They say we are 'silent'. What should we do? We have noticed the devolution. Do we put ourselves at risk by talking down the cause of the psychopaths? Would anything we do be heroic? These forces, they've been set in place, and those who do the marching . . . are often not bad guys.

Thank Veterans profusely and unexpectedly!

what follows is a toggle image which will 'turn on' a large number of images. This experimental feature is brought to you by The Wind and the Rain, of which we may get a lot of tonight.

Please note: the context toggles are still in development if they don't work quite yet all you need to do is go into the div with firebug and change the inline style "display" property from "none" to "inline"

So it's all here but you tell the browser not to show it yet so, hopefully, the flurry of downloading will not happen for any of the reference 'content' files (a list images in this case) until the user selects to have the information toggled 'on'. And then they can see what a lot of content it is. Further more a swtich can be inside a group (container, implemented as a div) where the maximum number of switched content are allowed, and no more. So, for example with the possiblity of, say, fifty galleries, if one were to turn on three . . . it would turn off the another one. Perhaps the latest. So, for example, we set 'max galleries' data-part-thing to be simbol the represent a number and it . . . allows us to limit the number that the browser will enable for display. It's a bit of logic that is a limiter for the toggle-on display of these content containers. The content containers have a lot of data in them. The data represents lists of gallery images in this case. In this case there are thousands of various sub images available and if we were to give them all to you at once then you're browser will be overwhelmed. You will probably be underwhelmed be cause you won't see anything. In any case, the Wind and the Rain have requested that we have these context switches, as a form of conservation. Call it 'band width' conservation.

It gets left out
and no one takes it.      

The following poem is fresh, whipped up, off the cuff.

  

   Outside the rhythm of the dance
      she fusses with her handheld
 peering into it
    as if it's something
   when he is there
  right across the floor.
  Spinster at Christmas time
       forced to make an
 arduous journey
   with the most handsome, and yet
  stuck up man at the factory
 who is obsessed with success
         and family and
    has no time
 for a wife 
    right now but
 Santa Claus
   is going to match them up
 or the old people who
 also work at the factory
    or the design house
  a fiction of the long ago.



  

  Praise God!

"Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out." Proverbs 20:5 KJV 

 



















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