{"id":83,"date":"2006-01-16T22:49:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T04:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=83"},"modified":"2006-01-22T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T04:01:10","slug":"advice-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Advice Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I have my laptop back and have found a temporary and partial fix for my spam-comment problem (more on that soon), it’s time to start posting more regularly. But first I have a question for my readers. I’m wondering whether I should make my ‘Ancient Jokes of the Day’ (Ioci Antiqui<\/em>) ordinary blog-posts instead of (or as well as) adding them to the monthly PDF files. There are various pros and cons to consider:<\/p>\n

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  1. Pro: Most readers find HTML a lot more pleasant to read than PDF. Category archives make it easy for (un)interested readers to read the jokes and skip the rest of the site. I could even have separate categories for Greek and Latin jokes, so readers could read either or both.<\/li>\n
  2. Con: Individual jokes could not be printed out so easily for classroom use. Perhaps I should continue to collect them in PDF files even if the HTML version is primary.<\/li>\n
  3. Pro: Comments could be posted on each joke.<\/li>\n
  4. Con: Greek could be transliterated, but making it appear as accented text is not so easy. Does anyone know a relatively foolproof method of doing this? It would have to work on various hardware using various browsers and with various fonts installed. I find it frustrating that Greek does not appear the same on the same site using different machines or the same machine viewing different sites.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    No doubt there are other pros and cons to consider. As always, advice is welcome and may be placed in the comments or delivered by e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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