Chop Socky

I caught Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong on IFC a while ago. I thought it might be fun to put together a list of some of the classic kung-fu movies mentioned in this documentary, along with links to reviews and such.

  • The Magic Blade (1976)
  • Come Drink With Me (1966)
  • The Valiant Ones (1975)
  • Golden Swallow (1968)
  • The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
  • The Assassin (1967)
  • Vengeance (1970)
  • Heroic Ones (1970)
  • The Flying Guillotine (1974)
  • New One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
  • Dirty Ho (1979)
  • The Thirty-Sixth Chamber of Shaolin (1977)
  • Disciples of Shaolin (1975)
  • Spiritual Boxer (1975)
  • Drunken Master (1978)
  • browsers

    I tried the new design out in a few different browsers on my Mac. It looks fine in Safari, IE, and an old version of Mozilla. Just for yuks, I tried it out in a really old version of Netscape running under OS 9 mode. The CSS didn’t get handled at all, which was to be expected, but the page did show up in a readable form.

    still working on it

    I just did a few more things with the page. I got a little fancier with the layout on the left column, and I pulled most of the stuff in that column out of the Blogger template, and put it into a couple of SSI files. This way, all that code isn’t repeated in every page, and I don’t need to regen all the pages every time I change something over there. The one slight problem there is that I had to turn on SSI processing for all files. I added “AddHandler server-parsed .html” to the .htaccess file, so all the archive files and individual page files will be passed through the SSI parser. If theory, it’s not a good idea to pass every page through SSI, but it’s probably a worse idea to have a big chunk of the same code in every file. There’s a useful page on this at apache.org, by the way.

    more CSS fun

    I just did some fixup work on the CSS, and I think the blog looks OK in both Firefox and IE now. I know so little about CSS, I really screwed a few things up. For instance, I was under the impression that a pound sign at the beginning of a line worked as a comment. That actually works in Firefox, if only by accident, but in IE, the pound sign is ignored and the line is parsed anyway. Oh well. I think I’ve got things to the point where they’re at least presentable.

    CSS and Blogger links

    Here are a few of the pages I referenced in re-doing the design on this site:

    For CSS Stuff:

  • glish.com — some useful layouts.
  • The Layout Reservoir — the design I’m using right now is a variation on their 2-column with left menu design.

    For Blogger template help:

  • Templates
  • Template Walkthrough
  • Template Tag list
  • Template Tags: defined