Another change Sep 12, 2005
Yes my website has undergone another drastic change.  It's only been about a month since I discovered website colors.  But I've gone back to the plain old black and white.  It's just better.  I like simple things.  Sorry to all you people who wanted some variation on my site.  You'll have to go somewhere else. 

Another part of the big change is my gradual move away from divs and back into tables.  Divs seem to be unnecessarily complicated and they are in no way cross-browser compatible.  So most of my time was spent on making sure my formatting looked the same in IE as it looked in Firefox (I didn't even think about Safari or whatever those Mac-heads use.  Sorry, but I'm completely out of that loop).  And the whole reason I was using divs was because it's the "cool" thing to do, according to the HTML/CSS community.  Well screw them.  I'm back into tables. 

And the most significant change is the advent of using WordPress as a content management system (CMS).  I thought about it for a while and finally decided to go for it.  I know that WordPress is capable.  I was just kind of unsure of how it would work and how much of a change it would be.  But I think it'll work just fine.  It basically consists of using "Pages" which "live outside of the normal blog chronology".  So that's my task for the near future. #technology
Windows balloons Sep 12, 2005
Holy stupid annoying Windows popup notification balloons!  You know those little things that popup in your system tray (lower right hand corner of your screen) that say things like "A network cable is unplugged" or "Wireless Network Connection is not connected.  Wireless network unavailable."  One solution is to get the TweakUI PowerToy and uncheck "Enable balloon tips" under "Taskbar and Start Menu".  Yes Microsoft actually made something that could do some damage control on its own stuff.  But an even better solution is to go to "Network Connections" (in Windows Explorer or other similar means) and right click on the connection and select "Disable".  This way, your computer won't try to find that connection unless you tell it to.  This discovery made my day, my week, and perhaps my life. #technology
Gut (1) Sep 12, 2005
I love seeing those people (usually men) with big huge guts.  They stand around with this look on their face that says, "Yeah I have a huge gut.  I worked hard to get it and I work even harder to keep it.  Only the finest scrapple and spam for me.  None of those pansy light beers for me.  Only the darkest, the kind you can chew."  Hey it's better than if they tried to suck it in. #psychology