Added “Woody Paige’s ‘Around the Horn’ Chalkboard Messages” to Projects
A list of all of Woody Paige’s chalkboard messages from Around The Horn in 2008. A complete and utter WOMBAT.
Category: Site News 
Changes and major additions to joshmadison.com
Changes Are Afoot
So joshmadison.com (jmdc) has been redesigned. This is about the seventh major redesign of this site, and it’s the biggest one yet. Besides the obvious visual design changes, the back end was completely redone using Expression Engine as the content management system.
I’ll be updating this post with issues and concerns that might be occurring.
Issues and Concerns:
There seems to be a problem with the RSS feeds. The ‘asides’ links aren’t linking properly, going to the jmdc entry rather than what was linked to.Forgot to include isPermaLink="false" in the guid def. Oops.Some images aren’t showing up.I think I got them all. I’ll be keeping an eye on the error log to see if any 404’s come up related to images.- The ‘Humor’ section has not been migrated at this time. There’s a small technical issue with it, but I didn’t want to hold up the benefits of the new design while those details were being dealt with. If the issue can’t be resolved quickly, the previous version of the ‘Humor’ section will be used until it is fixed.
- Some of the most recent comments from the old system need to be migrated and cleaned up.
There’s an intermittent issue that’s causing IE6 and IE7 to periodically lose the navigation bar.Have I mentioned how much I hate IE?
Added “Oreo vs. Chips Ahoy!” to Projects
What happens when Oreo and Chips Ahoy! go head-to-head in an office environment?
Added “M&M’s Color Distribution Analysis” to Projects
An analysis of the colors in a case of M&M’s to see if they match the published percentages.
Added “Toilet Paper Usage” to Projects
I’m keeping track of how much toilet paper I use for a year to see how I compare to the average. So far...WAY above average. And yes, this is a total WOMBAT.
Added “U2 Book Signing” to Stories
My experience at the band’s NYC book signing. Summary: It was great!
Added “CNN Breaking News” to Stuff
A listing of items that CNN considers “breaking news” that I just think are a joke.
Updated Aquarium Photos With Three New Photos
Added a photo of one of the new red honey gourami and a pair of rasboras to the Aquarium > Photos page.
Added “Mac OS X - The Grand Experiment” to Reviews
I report my findings after using Mac OS X for one year.
Added “Wife Wanted” to Writings
An article about how I need to rent a wife for a few days per week has been added.
Update: The Writings section has been folded into the Blog.
Added “Neighborhood Changes” to Writings
Added an article about how neighborhoods change has been added to the Writings section.
Update: The Writings section has been folded into the Blog.
Created a Writings section
Created a Writings section where I will post some of my various ramblings that really don’t fall under any other category.
Update: The Writings section has been folded into the blog.
Added “World Trade Center” to Photography
Added a photo of the World Trade Center taken in July 1991 which was found in my archives. So far, it’s the only photo of the WTC that I’ve found.
Added “Bronx Zoo” to Photography
Added a gallery about a recent trip to the Bronx Zoo with my father.
Added “NY Times Weight” to the Projects section
Added an ongoing review of the Sunday NY Times weight to the Projects section.
Added “The Gates, Central Park, New York 1979-2005” to the Photo section
Added a gallery about my few trips to view and photograph The Gates, Central Park, New York 1979-2005 to the Photo section.
Updated “The Gauntlet” with news about a fire
There was a big fire the other day in The Gauntlet. The Gauntlet is now damaged and I doubt it will ever be the same.
Added new graphic to the humor section
Added Extreme close-up photo of a sea horse to the Humor > Graphics section.
