It’s one or the other for me these days, which is why I haven’t been keeping up with the posting duties.

This week will be mostly the former. Don’t expect much action here. See ya real soon!

Okay, you haven’t been waiting for a post THAT long, but you will have to wait a little bit longer. I was off on my timing about the wrap-up at my soon-to-be-ex-office.

Just didn’t want the front page to get too stale.

I should be back with some meatier posts by the end of the week.

(oh, and forum members will be pleased to know that the forum is back on after some fiddling today)

Things are getting down to the nitty-gritty at my office. Next Friday, the 23rd, is the day we’re supposed to close the doors for good. I still have a couple of major tasks remaining to take down the local network and ship all the big hardware off to another location, and then it’ll just be putting out any remaining fires and helping with the mucking out.

Once I shut down the network, we’ll be offline, and that means that I won’t be able to post to this site during the workday, as is my usual practice. Hey, don’t kid yourself…something like 75% of all Internet traffic emanating from the United States occurs during normal business hours. Indeed, I don’t know how I would be able to put up with the mindless tedium of working in a Big Corporation without the ability to spend time at work online. But I am about to find out, at least for a few days.

Between the lack of connectivity during the day, and our brutally busy extra-curricular schedule in the evenings, I’m not likely to post much, if at all, next week. Just so you don’t think I’ve died from bird flu or something.

Spent all day yesterday finishing up the new design. I hope you like it. I went a little more “Web 2.0″ this time around. Tweaking WordPress templates is a little less straightforward than Movable Type used to be because of the PHP scripting, but after staring at it long enough it finally started to make sense to me.

Content-wise, there’s not much different. The only doodad thing I included from the original design I “borrowed” is the Javascript for the “Recent Visitors” thingie on the right. It works with a social networking site called MyBlogLog. If you’re signed up with that site, and you post a picture in your profile, it will show up there as a little thumbnail. Clearly they’re trading on the vanity of bloggers to sign up for the service and upload a photo so they can get their picture on someone else’s blog. It’s a little bit like 2000 all over again, when we all discovered the game of blogrolling. People who sign up but don’t upload a picture are displayed as little gray smiley faces, and you don’t want to be a little gray smiley face, do you?

So far, everything seems to work on Firefox (v2.0.0.14), IE 6, and Safari (whatever version runs on the iPod Touch), but if you notice anything the least bit flaky, please let me know so I can try to fix it.