bodhi tree swaying

The Wordpress app for iPhone is handy, but still buggy. One problem is that the screen for selecting a post’s category is blank.

Another glitch is that sometimes the text editing area is truncated.

And I’d assumed that the app would pull a list of tags from my blog, but it doesn’t. Perhaps this is the same bug that affects the categories.

And sometimes after editing a post it shows in the list of posts with a padlock sign and a spinning “activity” wheel for prolonged periods — like 24 hours! I eventually learned that this could be corrected by refreshing the list of posts.

Of course I don’t expect every piece of software to be perfect, but some of these are major usability issues that you would have hoped would have …

Didn’t get a chance to read much in the papers today — but I feel some sympathy for Mark Sanford, adulterous governor of South California. It must be a painful and humiliating thing to be caught in an adulterous relationship when you’ve built your career in part on condemning other people’s sexual ethics. But he shows no signs of resigning his office, although he insisted that Bill Clinton resign his office for a similar sexual transgression. Maureen Dowd provides a breakdown of Sanford’s hypocrisy.

Tonight I have a chapter meeting (a meeting with fellow members of the Western Buddhist Order) using an online service called Tokbox that provides free videoconferencing. Our chapter members are in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Montana, and Washington. We’ll be continuing our study of the Bodhicharyavatara.

This is four members of my chapter: Varasuri, myself, Varada, and Priyamitra. Sunada was away.

I’ve been …

I’ve been working on redesigning this blog because I just don’t like the current theme. It looked great when I started using it, or so I thought, but the problem with the samsaric mind is that even if something doesn’t change your attitude to it does. So now I find it to be ugly.

So I’m returning to the black and white of the theme I had previous to the current one, but modifying it so that it’s less restrictively minimalist.

So far I have the home page (pictured) and the archive pages (essentially identical to the home page) designed, and I just have the single post pages and the static pages to do. Sorry about the confusing terminology — it’s a Wordpress thing.

Probably another two to three hours of work should do it.