I can’t believe I’m still up, but I got on a tear about wanting to get the BlogHer ad network ads up, and then I figured out how to make the little segmenty things in the sidebar look pretty again, AND I figured out how to make my archives not take up 10 inches of space in the sidebar.

Seriously, check out the archive box over on the lower right. I don’t know why 2005 is in a different color, but hot damn! I looked at some cool archive links around the Internet, found one I liked, and actually modified the code so it would be mine. Of course, every month I’ll have to manually edit it, but still. Worth it!

And by the way? All the sidebar stuff in my other blog can’t be done with widgets! I had to get in to all the sidebar code and try not to break anything while rearranging. Which did happen. Fortunately, I’d saved a txt file of the original before I started messing around.

I am feeling like I know how to bend the Internet to my will.

All of you who are actual programmers are smiling behind your hands at how cute my little projects are. Thanks for the public straight face. If I ever build anything, I’ll be exactly the same way.

My temporarily revived cell phone is dead again. It died twice today, both times less than 5 seconds into phone calls with Jill. The second time it died, it refused to admit it was dead, even though there was no more communication, until I unplugged it from the charger.
My work laptop has a corrupted anti-virus file, which basically meant that the AV program tried to analyze and contain everything I tried to do on the computer, couldn’t, and didn’t let me do much of anything.

Three desktop support people tried to help me — not counting the guy in India who told me to erase my temporary internet files and declared the problem solved in spite of my assertions to the contrary — before the manager declared my computer in need of reimaging. Meaning completely erased and started over.

Fortunately, I backup my files, although not since getting back. Also fortunately, they think they can also save all my data since the problem isn’t with the hard drive itself.

And as a nice bonus, I got to leave 2 hours early, get the grocery shopping done, and blog. I might even do some blog updating before going and picking up Noah.

I got a piece of comment spam today that made me laugh:

If you get spam you are in dire need of folding tables.

Folding table seller

Reno and Cindy, who are both brilliant and superlatively interesting, both posted links to this fabulous 4-minute video on the Internet.

Cindy observed, and I entirely agree, that it is a real trip for those of us who have been around and engaged in the evolution of the Internet. But it is also a good easy-to-follow explanation of how the Internet “works” both now and earlier.

Yes, in about 4 minutes, with a cool soundtrack and everything.

It reminds me of the conversation I had with Dave back in about 1994, when he told me that I had to go find out more about this cool World Wide Web thing, because it made the whole (previously techie and difficult, though to us facinating) Internet “point and click.”

Yup, Dave was the first person to convince me to find a Web Site. But Reno was the first person to show me how to send e-mail, and that was all the way back in 1987. The next people I sent e-mail to were Brian and Todd.

I installed a new stats counter on the blog on Friday night, after reading about how much fun Jen and Travis were having with it on their blogs. It took approximately 3 minutes, including the fact that their directions for typepad didn’t really work (I posted it in the template ‘description’ instead of typelists, and it works much better).

Wow! There is so much info out there that can be tracked, it’s a little creepy. But SO interesting!

I had readers from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Australia yesterday!!! And 5 from Italy!

Credit for that has to go to another blog I’ve recently started reading, My So Called Lesbian Life. In the last few days, she’s generated more hits to my blog than searches by students trying to cheat on book reports.

We had a super-productive day yesterday, scoring a new baby bathtub for $4, from Craig’s List, dealing with the ginormous pile of mail that was threatening to take over the front room, discovering my new favorite dessert, and seeing "Good Night, and Good Luck." What a great movie! Go see it, go see it now. Great acting, great cinematography, great plot, with intriguing sub-plots.

We now have almost everything on our "things to buy before the baby comes" list — the only substantial thing I haven’t got yet is a changing table/dresser to replace the wobbly one currently in the baby’s room.

There are a few other small things, but I think all or almost all of them will be available at the lactation consulting office at the hospital. And since they provide their services for free, I’m happy to spend money there to keep them up and running.

Fruit & Veg Count, 1/7: Err. None. At all. In fact, while I didn’t drink any jello yesterday, I may have had even more sugar than the days that I did. (Yes, that’s days. I drank the cherry jello on Friday night.)

The carmel cake from Southern Sweets was so good that I ate a slice which normally would have been a full serving for both of us, with maybe half a serving left over. All Jill got was one bite. And that, with a glass of milk, was my dinner. Three bites in, I told Jill that I wanted this for my birthday cake this year.

I installed a new stats counter on the blog on Friday night, after reading about how much fun Jen and Travis were having with it on their blogs. It took approximately 3 minutes, including the fact that their directions for typepad didn’t really work (I posted it in the template ‘description’ instead of typelists, and it works much better).

Wow! There is so much info out there that can be tracked, it’s a little creepy. But SO interesting!

I had readers from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Australia yesterday!!! And 5 from Italy!

Credit for that has to go to another blog I’ve recently started reading, My So Called Lesbian Life. In the last few days, she’s generated more hits to my blog than searches by students trying to cheat on book reports.

We had a super-productive day yesterday, scoring a new baby bathtub for $4, from Craig’s List, dealing with the ginormous pile of mail that was threatening to take over the front room, discovering my new favorite dessert, and seeing "Good Night, and Good Luck." What a great movie! Go see it, go see it now. Great acting, great cinematography, great plot, with intriguing sub-plots.

We now have almost everything on our "things to buy before the baby comes" list — the only substantial thing I haven’t got yet is a changing table/dresser to replace the wobbly one currently in the baby’s room.

There are a few other small things, but I think all or almost all of them will be available at the lactation consulting office at the hospital. And since they provide their services for free, I’m happy to spend money there to keep them up and running.

Fruit & Veg Count, 1/7: Err. None. At all. In fact, while I didn’t drink any jello yesterday, I may have had even more sugar than the days that I did. (Yes, that’s days. I drank the cherry jello on Friday night.)

The carmel cake from Southern Sweets was so good that I ate a slice which normally would have been a full serving for both of us, with maybe half a serving left over. All Jill got was one bite. And that, with a glass of milk, was my dinner. Three bites in, I told Jill that I wanted this for my birthday cake this year.