Sunday, August 19, 2007

New Site Design

As is my wont every year around this time, I throw caution to the wind and re-design my site. This time I’ve gotten a little bit more tricky with things. I’m using a technique called sIFR to do some wizardry so I can have “nice” headline type. It’s all very complicated, frankly, and I just followed the directions to get it to work properly, but if you have javascript on and Flash installed, you should see some nice headline type. NeutrafceDisplay-Medium representin’ in da hizzhoouse! (Man, I just can’t pull off Snoop language, can I?) If you don’t have Flash or Javascript on, the site will still work as expected, you just don’t get to see the lovely headline type.

Anyway, if you read the site in a feed reader like Google Reader, NewsFire, or NetNewsWire, nothing will have changed dramatically for you at all. The feed addresses are the same. But pop in and take a look around. Let me know what you think. I’ve done my best to test in all major browsers and platforms and everything seems to be OK. Though it’d be great if someone could buy me an iPhone. I simply must test it out. It’s all about the research. :-] And if there any egregious bugs, please drop me a line.

Thanks! And YOU are my favorite reader! All those others mean NOTHING to me!

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• Help Wanted
• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• A Word from the Small Person in the House
• RNT Product Review: Chocolate Mix Skittles Left Me Sterile!
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• Letters from a Homeowner to His General Contractor
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

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