spare change
It’s been a while, I know. The meds make it difficult to do… well… anything. I have the attention span of a cabbage. A cabbage grown in Dubya’s garden.
But I haven’t been completely absent.
etherfarm v3.0 debuts on Monday. Little by little, it’s been recoded, redesigned, and re-architected entirely from scratch. I really like the new site, and hopefully not being too presumptuous, you will too. Geeks will appreciate that it validates XHTML-strict, it allows me to change just about every aspect of the site by editing a few files, and does some pretty neat stuff with Movable Type. Non-geeks will appreciate the fact that it “looks pretty and works good.” Mac users will appreciate the fact that it’s optimized to use some of my favorite fonts (which now come standard with OS X) and that it renders great in Safari, IE, and Mozilla/Firebird/Netscape. PC users will appreciate the fact that it looks good, despite the fact that Microsoft engineers couldn’t get IE6 to render dotted lines properly if their stock options stocks depended on it. Those with small monitors will appreciate that it fits just fine on an 800 pixel-wide monitor. Those with larger monitors will appreciate that it’s fluid enough to fill a 1280 pixel-wide monitor. Those who hated the fact that I previously spelled the site “etherf@rm” will appreciate that the site’s name is now just “etherfarm”. Those who liked the it as “etherf@rm” will appreciate the fact that I kept the @ in my email address.
You see, it’s got a bit of something for everyone. Except maybe for albino emu farmers.
The blogging world has an even shorter attention span than my medicated self, and understandably, traffic has fallen off a little since my last post. Obviously there’s not much I can do about that; I’ve had other things to worry about. But many thanks to those of you who have emailed, stopped by, and kept me in your thoughts since the surgery. I’m 3000% better than I was three weeks ago, which means I’m at about 60% back to normal. With any luck, I’ll return to regular posting next week.
See you on Monday.
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5 responses
Comment posted at 06:31 on Friday, July 11, 2003
I have missed your regular posts. I’m looking forward to your redesign.
What makes me feel really bad is the fact that your current design is outstanding, and puts me to shame. I’m sure your new design will stop me dead in my tracks and cause me to remove my stuff from the web.
Some may have stopped coming by, but I continue to visit. There’s plenty here to keep me occupied without regular posting.
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albino emu farmer
Comment posted at 14:01 on Friday, July 11, 2003
Actually, I quite like the mouth section. If you had some emu meat recipes, it would be perfect. Looking forward to seeing etherfarm 3.0 on Monday!
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Comment posted at 07:31 on Saturday, July 12, 2003
I’m a little uncertain about the farm f@rm thing. Also, claims that Dubya has a cabbage garden, and claims that this is false, have been resolved by George Tenet explaining that all miscommunication on the issue was his fault. Apparently the false intelllgence [not Dubya’s or Ashcroft’s] was explanied to have not arisen from the Brits in this instance, but from the Santa Cruz area, by a drugged out former hospital patient. For reasons of national security the actual idenity of this individual cannot, at present, be identified. He shall, for now, simply be referred to as, “Emir Emu,” apparently indicating ties to a Persian Gulf state, although some have speculated that there may be attempted deliberate disinformation efforts at play, to conceal actual identities of a number of leading Illuminati agents, here and abroad.
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flash
Comment posted at 16:57 on Saturday, July 12, 2003
…and cyber geeks looked upon 3.0 and realized it was good.
To quote a classic commercial, “Emu, the pork of the future.”
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Comment posted at 22:58 on Sunday, July 13, 2003
Arrg, it’s been Monday (nearly all day) here in my part of the world…the suspense is killing me!
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