- New Links in the blogroll. They’re all by people I know, arranged in order of how long I’ve known them.
- Katherine in Japan. My cousins blog. She is spending a couple years teaching in Japan. You may have to register to see it.
- My Zen Arcade. More like mine – just an old pal babbling about whatever is on his mind. Frequently updated.
- Montyland. Monty is another high school pal of mine. He doesn’t post much, but I like what he does.
- Brand Ng. A not-so-old and not-so-new friend. He writes about the power of branding and other smart-type things.
- The Dad Show. The author is a newer friend who hardly ever posts, but I like his writing. Maybe if we add in some comments he’ll be motivated to add more…
- I updated the theme slightly, mostly adding another 200 pixels in the content area. That puts it over 800 pixels total, which was the old standard. I am assuming all my readers are okay with this. If it isn’t displaying properly, let me know.
This is how it begins. Add a few pixels, modify the credits in the footer, change the way followed links display (to be done, can’t distinguish normal bold from link bold)… this is how I got in trouble with the last theme. It got to a point where I had hacked it so much I couldn’t edit it. Also, I can change out the background image… any nominations?
- During the upgrade, quotes and apostrophes from old posts and comments got translated into weird special character triplets. I’m gradually cleaning them up. If you notice any, feel free to drop me a line.
- Some images from old posts don’t appear correctly all the time — if old posts don’t have images, please let me know.
I like the font and layout (I used to make mine insanely dense for no good reason), including the wider text area. I’m not a fan of the background, I’d find some nice abstract art or something to add a flash of color.
That said, your background no longer goes to the edge of my browser window.
But that may just be me and my mac.
I’ve spent my share of time beating on the CSS and such to know it gets out of hand very quickly.
For real fun, try hacking the post-by-email parser.
Especially if, like me, you know nothing about php.