redesign done

I believe I’ve now converted all the pages on CEMurphy.Net to WordPress, which means the redesign is more or less done. It’s not as done as I want it to be, of course, but if you’d like to go poke at it and see if you can find any pages that don’t match, that would be great. One thing I’d like feedback on–should I reinstate the right column Out Now material? The header banner covers it now, but that only brings up one item at a time, whereas the right…

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cranky internet fogey likes this

Thanks to , I have discovered Readability, which is a handy little toolbar widget that allows you to, with the click of a button, render text content into a size, font and margin-setting that you find comfortable to read. I don’t know when I became a cranky internet fogey (actually, anybody who’s been online as long as I have–19 years and counting (and yes, I know, half my friends have been on YEARS longer than that)–is one by definition), but I like this. Also, I hate Flash-based websites. There. I’ve…

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Plz for to hlp!

I am, as I have mentioned, redesigning cemurphy.net. I’ve got it nearly done, but I thought I’d put up random quotes from my books as part of the design. So here’s where I need your help: anybody who wants to give me a favorite quote from one of my books (you can cite page and line if you think it’s spoilish, and I’ll do the rest), please post it in comments! No more than about 200 words, I think. Plz for to help! :) Man, we’re watching the original Die…

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miscellania

I just went and looked at the TBR list I posted in May. On May 9th, in fact. I had 35 books on that list. I took 3 off because I decided I wasn’t likely to read them, and I’m down to 13 now, though I also bought at least…seven books while traveling to and from San Diego, because I only brought 4 with me on the plane and I read them all before I left Newark (I read 6 books that day) so I needed more. I’ve read almost…

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