Y'know, I got to thinking that with the recent loading problems a friend was kind enough to point out, that there's a good object lesson here, and it has to do with the proper way government should function. Bear with me here, as I attempt to illustrate this...
What we had was a situation where the decision making function of government, which, in this case resides in me, had proved wanting to a degree. The executive function, which resides in CTO, had done its job well according to the plan of the decision-maker, myself. The remaining function of government, the judicial, or, the function of judging whether the plan and the execution thereof was working as originally intended (this function in this case is possessed primarily of you, the reader, by the way), raised awareness with the legislative power (me) that there was a problem which might be more extensive in nature.
On that, a quick investigation was done into the matter, CTO was informed of the nature of the problem and the new guidelines for the plan to fix it. Now it's up to the readership, in the absence of my noticing a problem brewing myself, to make me aware of a problem they're/you're experiencing. Whereupon I'll enter upon the same procedures as before, and the whole process continues; all the functions of government, possessed of different individuals, working together as a unified whole.
And what's best of all? No-one is trying to horn in on the proper role of the others. Nor did the basic structure of the blog undergo any alterations. As simplified an example as this seems, it is at bottom exactly the way the departments of government should function, in their individual, and their unified capacities. :)
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Good Object Lesson
Feedback Request
(Note: We've done some troubleshooting and made some necessary changes to the blog which I explain in the additional paragraph.)
I just received an email message from a friend who complains that Webster's is extremely slow to load, and he believes it is because the layout is too complicated. Since I've experienced this problem myself with Webster's, as opposed to most other blogs I frequent, I think this friend is probably right. However, I was assuming that it is chiefly because I am on dial-up that I experience this problem.
How does Webster's load for the rest of you? I may need to do something about this if it is a big problem. In fact, I see at sitemeter that many visits to the blog are registered as zero time. I wonder if this loading problem might be a factor in that?
Ok, here's what we've done so far. We've temporarily disabled the Table of Contents feature, while we try to figure out how to make it load differently. I don't know how many of you use this feature, or whether it has been useful to any of you, but it has been a pretty useful feature for me so I'd like to have it back if the bugs can be worked out of it. This seems to have been the main culprit regarding the loading issues. Also, the music has been removed for good. This too was causing a delay in loading, but nowhere near what the ToC was causing. If any of you have any more suggestions, or if you continue to experience difficulties with loading, or whatever, please let me know so I can work on correcting it. Thanks.