Author: owen

Little Czech Primer and Printing

I have been asked fairly frequently whether there is an easy way of printing this site in a convenient way. Unfortunately right now the answer is no. I’d really like to convert this site from using flat HTML files to being a dynamic, database-driven one. This would allow much more flexibility in display, sorting, updates, etc. Once I have this done I can think about doing a printer-friendly version. But I still have to wrap my head around the database structure, and until that happens I’m not getting anywhere. For now I’m going to try to focus on getting some updates done.

Rumors of my demise…

If it wasn’t bad enough that I haven’t updated this site in… well, ages, The Little Czech Primer was down for several days because of a domain registration snafu. Yes, I’m still here, despite the lack of updates. I’ve been busy lately with my new baby girl, who turned 1 this summer. She has a talent for taking up all my time, and for pressing that big round button on the front of the computer when she gets near it.

But tell you what, if there are any faithful Czech Primer fans still out there, or even if you’re a new visitor here, let’s get the ball rolling again: Post a comment here with your favorite difficult Czech word. It might be the one that you find hardest to pronounce, or the one that you never can seem to remember. I’ll pick from those and post some new entries.

Gaston’s Progeny

Remember Gaston, the sea lion from the Prague zoo that rode floodwaters all the way to Germany? The story ended sadly when, after being recaptured, Gaston died of exhaustion. But there is a happy addendum: it turned out that the father of seven had already conceived his eighth, who was born in June.

Blog changes

As you can see, I’m working on changes to this log. Blogger was giving me too many problems, and those problems were preventing me from sorting out the issue with the comments. So I gave up and migrated to Moveable Type, which looks to be a vast improvement. Installation and migration from Blogger was flawless. Now I just have to work on the template, so we can have something like we had before.