Since I’m occasionally slow on the uptake, I’ve been using my webcomics page to surf the stuff I normally read… and then manually enter the URLs for sites that I hadn’t included on the linklist. When the stupidity of this set in, I decided a page repair was in order, so voila, updates.

Some comics had shut down — like Minus (beautiful and frightening as it was), and others had ended before I even had a chance to get into them serially, such as Riceboy, which some folks on the /co subforum had pointed me out to ages ago but, as usual, I was slow on the follow-up.

At least Gunnerkrigg Court is still running, and I finally got around to linking some ALL TIME SMASH HITS like Awkward Zombie and Wonderella. My comics life is complete. Or would be if the guy who updates Gone With the Blastwave would do so more often than semi-annually.

Man, mucking around with WordPress’ page navigation functions is awfully annoying; it works when I’m using any other template apart from the one I’ve customized, so it’s either that I’m missing a template to refer to, or I’ve misunderstood something fundamental. Or maybe I shouldn’t be banging around under the hood at these hours.

4:22 AM — now that pagination and formatting for said pagination is working, I seem to have broken the Twitter feed. Bleh. Never was a title so prophetic…

That might take a little longer than I thought. Multi-posts are somehow breaking the positioning of the sidebar. Man, my CSS is dusty; time to go over this stylesheet with a fine-toothed comb….

It’s been three years and a bit since I last shook the dust off this site; I’ve gone on extended hiatus before, but never for this long. I’m still in the process of reconfiguring everything; moving the templates and styles from the old Movable Type installation to the new WordPress system has been an interesting experience, but once I get the last few pages set up, numenor.ca will be up and running again. Check back in… oh, a day or so.

Ah, it’s definately spring when the near-annual Website Redesign occurs.

Yes. It’s very blue. In some senses, though, it’s less blue than the other version of the site. I’m still working through some of the bugs, and I hope to implement a style-switcher in the near future.

Wow. Awstats tells me that I’ve seen 10,000 unique visitors this month, and about 12,000 visits. I’d seen the numbers climbing before (in fact, was rather surprised to see it climb even after the site’s hiatus due to incompetence over Christmas), but to see it break 10,000 was actually kinda cool, considering that it’s a a geek-heavy anime / tech / spleen-venting hobby site, originally constructed because I happened to enjoy design work and HTML.

So. Hi. Welcome aboard. Visitors (especially regulars) should feel free to introduce themselves in the comments.

Yes, that’s a Sinistar reference. Yes, it’s been a long time between entries. Chalk it up as a learning experience, brought about by a half-assed backup strategy.

This blog was originally powered by a home-brewed collection of perl scripts and cgi modules, hacked late at night, fuelled by caffeine and held together by duct tape. Not surprisingly, it was quickly moved to Movable Type once the opportunity presented itself.

In a similar fashion, my old photo gallery was another home-grown solution that’s now been supplanted by the significantly more useful Gallery.

So, check out the new photo gallery! It should be less confusing than the old one.

Doing so should be validation that any homebrewed coding project that I come up with will inevitably be replaced by an infinitely superior one available for free from the great Inter-Web.

Small format changes, here and there. I suddenly realized that the old format was imposing posting constraints — ie, I had to make a decent-sized post, or the side-bar would impinge onto the lower content and basically Make Things Look All Weird. In the form-and-content world, a decent design can help mitigate the otherwise poor content of a given site (cough, cough).

Now, this means I can make quick little posts and damn the site design to all heck. I think. If the page looks weird, it means I screwed it up and will have to re-think some of the css.

It’s that time again where I redecorate the site. Waving my CSS wand around, I proclaim Internal Item Borders, BEGONE!

Move along. Nothing to see here.