fine whine

Since I've been adding little asterisk-ed asides* to all of my posts lately, and because the top left corner of my silly ugly graphic is somewhat bare, I have added a massive yellow asterisk, as you may have noticed. The font does funny stuff, but for now it's fine, I think.

* Such as this one, you see.

Not that this matters to any of my readers, but today, Wednesday the 13th, the number of this post is 666. Of course having a number for the posts is only useful for the database, so I don't do much with them. Just thought you might want to know, since I'm posting this well after the actual Wednesday the 13th.

I've been turning it on and off for a while now, but my new theme for the site is now up and running. It's more colorful than my last couple attempts at page design, but it no longer has anything to do with 'whine' or 'wine' (no corkscrews here!) and I'm not sure if that matters or not.

Overall the everything is more or less done, though you may notice something odd here or there. Please let me know, either by leaving a comment or contacting me. I appreciate all feedback.

Speaking of commenting, you may notice little boxes next to the comments. Those are for Gravatars, which are a way to have some consistent identity across blogs and sites and anything that uses them. Those images coordinate with the email addresses used on comments (once again, note that I do not do anything with your email address, and will never sell it or give it out without your permission). I've made mine semi-random, but that's the sort of thing that I can do between my mad coding skillz and skippy's.

Mostly his.

Anyway, they're free and easy to use and they brighten the place up a little bit. Go get one!

I'm not in the office today, but if I were I'd likely be fooling around on the internet more than usual. You see, the company has decided to shut off access to web-based and otherwise accessible personal email accounts in the interest of security and whatnot.

This of course irks me, not because I particularly care for my email but more for the fact that I don't like people telling me I cannot do something.

So it's good I'm not at my desk, as I'd probably be working on breaking through the security. Which is probably why another category of blocked sites is 'proxy avoidance information'.

If there is any good to come from this entry, then, it is this: If you email me during the day, even through my contact page, I likely won't get to it until nightfall.

Officially, that is. I'll be working on a workaround straightaway.

haiku takes up space
since I opt to write nothing
until much later

[I'm not really posting this, as I am in the air flying over the arctic circle at the moment. I also don't really want to figure out which time zone in which this should be posted.]