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so things look different…

i liked the old design okay. it was a quick new thing when i switched to wordpress.

this new design incorporates a 3 column layout, built with techniques i learned from this old school tutorial at glish.com.

the sidebar is different – i canned the archive links. who wants to read this by month? use the Search feature if you need to find something in particular.

also the banner graphic, while it overlapped the content area slightly, i thought it could be more prominent – yet, less distracting.

the font face is defaulted to Helvetica, and will degrade to Microsoft Sans Serif in the absense of Helvetica. if neither is found, your system’s default sans-serif font is loaded.

oops, i almost forgot to mention – the images on the left are the latest feed from my flickr photostream.

there are lots of other little tweaks to improve readability and usability. plus a few that might be functional or fun (doesn’t that first line of each paragraph look darker?) enjoy! feel free to comment if you have questions or concerns.

strangest precip ever

so, while we didn’t get a massive snowstorm yesterday, we did get some very interesting precipitation. it sleeted, and accumulated. several inches. when i went outside to move my car, it was still below freezing, so the sleet stayed whole. lots of tiny little ice pellets that you could kick around. shoveling was interesting – […]

about the weather

yes, both relevant to this post, and a musical reference (song by 10,000 maniacs). anyway. this post is, actually, about the weather. this past christmas, carrie gave me an Oregon Scientific WMR968 Weather Station. those of you who know me might remember that i’m a weather geek. or you may have glazed over that detail, […]

things overheard in a cat household

just a quick compendium. what are you eating? stop eating that! where did you find that? that’s not edible! get off the counter! get out of there! get down from there! how did you get there? stop fighting! stop yelling! stop… whatever you’re doing! and perhaps the most important… don’t fall in the toilet!

zero + expensive

that’s fahrenheit, not celsius. and when i went to move my truck this morning, the clutch is all screwy. great. update: my truck just left for the dealer on a flatbed. there was clutch hydraulic fluid flowing out of the slave cylinder inside the transmission. pricey!

waking up in 2008

while this time is usually dedicated to blathering on and on about top-ten lists and resolutions, i’ll take the opportunity to look at waking up in 2008, versus waking up in 2007. in retrospect, as i assemble this, it looks like i’m putting out an all-points bulletin for myself. data January 1st, 2007 January 1st, […]

anyone up for wassailing?

in the longstanding tradition of explaining nonsensical-sounding old english traditions at the holidays, i present to you: Wassailing. of course you can go look it up on wikipedia, but they tend to have all the wit and charm of your high school guidance counselor (after they banned smoking in the teacher’s lounge). Wassail is a […]

guess what happened today?

yeah, i sound like a broken record. another 7-8 inches, got all that cleared but now it’s accumulating sleet and might switch over to freezing rain before it switches back to snow.

90 minutes

so i spent another hour and a half shoveling. this time i cleared everything (again) – another 4″ or so fell where i already cleared 5″ earlier today. i also cleared off and scraped both the cars. it mercifully stopped snowing while i was out there. that means, with any luck, it won’t snow again […]

more snow falls

here is an excerpt from a time-lapse i shot out the window during the beginning of this snow storm. 1:10pm 1:28pm 2:05pm 3:00pm 3:40pm 4:20pm

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