January 22nd, 2005
Planet Xavier
#567
More waste of space
Eric thinks that he can spite me by taking up all the space on pX, with his 8 KiB list. What he seems to forget is that I decide whether his blog even makes it onto there.
The kibibyte (KiB), by the way, is the binary analogy to the kilometer or kilodegree Celsius (and yes, there is such a thing). I switched to using this unit and its multiples back in August.
So he has prompted me to implement a new policy: truncation. Here’s the rule of thumb: if your post is more than three screens long (using a 1280×800 resolution, since that’s what my monitor’s set to) in 12pt Times New Roman, your post will likely be reduced to a mere title. Furthermore, due to Planet’s current limitations, all your posts will be treated the same way: dwindled down to a brief one-liner.
If you don’t want to get truncated, just use <lj-cut> for goodness sake. Your readers will thank you for it.
Your posts will be restored to their former glory once the offending entries get pushed off the bottom (usually within a day or two). I’ve also come up with a Three-Truncation Rule: if I am forced to truncate three entries within a quarter (or during the entire Summer Break), I will truncate all your posts permanently.
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6/11/2005 @ 1:21 AM
Minh’s Notes
On the fly
I just collapsed Kurt Olding’s wonderful display of manlihood at pX.
6/19/2005 @ 11:58 PM
Minh’s Notes
Chronology
Xangas are now where they belong.
10/26/2005 @ 5:55 PM
Minh’s Notes
Now it’s a problem…
Xanga finally fixed their RSS feeds to include the dates of each post properly. I would say that with no trivial amount of jubilation, except that their fix broke my fix.