downfall of civilization

Screw narcotics. You want to really feel like you’re drugged? Try insomnia. It’ll mess you up but good.

If you’re reading this, then it means that my site migration to the new server has been successful. Please, if you notice a piece of the site that isn’t working (I believe I’ve gotten all of the kinks out), let me know by posting a comment on this post.

These are some photographs I took of two bridges in between Groton and New London, for my dad’s birthday. I took some black & whites, too, and I’m going to blow one or two up to poster size for my dad’s office. Thought I’d share these:

Not that people do post comments on the site very often, but for those that do: I’ve added a subscription function. This way, if you post a comment and somebody responds to it, you can be notified that another comment has been posted. All it requires is that when you submit the comment, […]

I know that there are at least a couple people who read my site, and while it does allow for RSS syndication, let’s face it: not that many people use RSS readers these days. I know that a lot of other people would really rather just get a notice when a site gets updated. […]

Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.2, which has various security updates. I think I’m actually coming up with a neat method of keeping my custom functions without having to rewrite whole files, which is nice. Now if only I can figure out a way to make it so I don’t have to update ANY […]

I’m playing around with the layout of my website because I never really liked how it looked and I want to make it play nicer with the various browsers. I was able to finally get it to display text at pretty much the same level in all browsers (and make it scalable, which requires […]

I’ve also futzed a little bit with the text formatting so that it looks more the same in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox. Talk about a war, there, though: Internet Explorer’s text formatting using CSS is a real bitch, and just when you think you’ve got it right, you notice that the sizing for IE is about two times as large as the sizing when looking in a “real” browser like Firefox or Opera.

In case you’re not quite sure of why there are some posts here that are several years old: I’m copying over some of my “columns” from the old website, because they get read (some of them, at least, and quite a bit, too) and I figured they should be here, too.

I’ve moved my site, this time to a real hosting environment, and decided that it’s time that I redesigned the site as well. I’ve decided I’m going to treat this as more of a blogging-style site than anything else, as it’s rarely read anyway, and why not follow the rest of the pack?