Snow Day

Actually I did go to work, but it is snowing here, which is somewhat of an irregular experience.

For now though, a couple things that made me laugh:

Zits online comic strip for February 6

A mock-up movie poster from our friends at Mad Magazine.

For those who care, I am redesigning Otherland and may have that back up in all its glory next month. Stay tuned.

Also archived any news older than the first of the year (which I understand doesn’t leave a whole lot).

New News

The Headliner.net news feed apparently died while we were gone over Christmas. Currently I am trying out the Moreover.com feed. If you have any input on this, let me know. And since they have an ungodly number of feeds, I will be putting those on other pages, including the computer support type pages. Basically, there is a wealth of information out there and I’m willing to set up as many of these as you’d like (on various other pages of course).

Rest and recuperate

Leslie and I have been down a few days with a wicked stomach flu. We both seem to be on the mend though.

Coming soon to the message board, a blurb on our trip home for Thanksgiving. Or not.

For your entertainment or embarrassment, an image submitted by Dan Vandiver in Japan showing yet another reason the world laughs at us sometimes:

Happy Thanksgiving

Well, I have managed to convert most of the old site pages over and have some of the rudimentary new pages online too. More content work to come of course. Have heard little or no comments about the redesign though most people probably haven’t seen it yet.

Leslie & I are heading out to Illinois to spend the week with my family so expect no updates until we get back. Hope you all have an enjoyable and relaxing holiday.

New site layout

And now we try again. New layout, less dependance on fonts you may or may not have, and hopefully some neat features.

A couple things I have noticed right off the bat:

1. The headline gathering script is sloooow. If I can find a new one I will load it in quickly.
2. Netscape really hates the table I have the text in. I’ve tried forever to keep a format that works across all browsers so I’ll either try to fix it or just learn to live with it.
3. Netscape also hates the menu system. Do NOT resize the page until the menu loads or it will crash your browser window.
4. Half of the links go to really, really dead or non-existent pages. I actually have content for most of them. I just have to convert it over. In the meantime most of our “friends” pages are working.

Links in lieu of content

A couple links to pass along from friends and the like:

The Belief-o-matic, a way to see what religion your beliefs may concide with. Kind off an odd way to check your head.

Slate brings an alternate view of Harry Potter.

An one of those articles I keep going back to which is one man’s view of how we could be planning to combat terrorism. Can’t say I agree with all of it, but it does give some food for thought.

Some quick notes

Looking forward to making it home for Thanksgiving in a few weeks.

Tom should be making it home in a couple weeks too.

Jason and Ruth are expecting. I figure I can announce this as most people who would know them probably already know. And for those who didn’t…consider yourself informed.

May have a new site design coming up too. (Hehe, already did that.)