You know how it is, unpacking and all

So, the new template is up and running. A few troubles. Have been bouncing around and looking at the site from other computers, taking note of what needs to be fixed.

A partial checklist:

*Bump up the headline in size
*Bring back the feedback section
*Remove the top ad (which will cost about $5 a month or something)
*Figure out the "posted by" entry so my name appears after it

In short, I need to create some dominant points on the body-text area. I see a bunch of blogs in a day and they all give me ideas. I should take more notes about what I want, but then I get bogged down in the technical aspect, forgetting why I’m running a blog in the first place: words.

That’s pretty much how it’s been with me and the Web. For a while, back when the Web was the cool new thing, I earned a living as Web site designer/manager. Sure, creating an information resource out of mere HTML script was fun at first, but then came all the catch-up work with every new language or script built by ambitious wannabe cartographers eager to map out the Web in their own half-assed, Version 1.0, incompatible-with-major-browsers voodoo.

Also, I didn’t care about back-end programming; I wasn’t a programmer. I was more like Rick from “Casablanca,” trying balance the front-end allure of my café with the back-end dirty work done by mercenary coders. I always thought there’d be a place for front-end HTML scripters/content folk like me on the Internet, coding an attractive, literate edifice to hide the ungainly wiring in the back. However, the brave visionaries of the Web World adhered to a Bizarro philosophy of content being secondary compared to the method of delivery. When faced with budget cuts, they tossed overboard the content writers and editors for PR flacks and left HTML scripting to next-generation WYSIWYG tools or Flash animations.

Ah, memories.

Speaking of memories, you still can torment your eyes with the old version of this blog, which is version 2.0 actually. You don’t wanna see version 1.0.

More important stuff

Today is my 43-month wedding anniversary. Yay.

I love you, my darling.