Site Updates :
I’ve added a new section - Linkware Layouts, for when the muse visits. To celebrate this memorable event, I have a new layout for you to admire. Well technically it happened the other way round: the section for the new layout… or something along those lines.

I believe I like this layout a little too much: I keep thinking how I could use it for this site. I must resist temptation: really Kimmie, I CAN do it!
That’s what drooling over Screenalicious’ gallery does to me :buckteeth:

The link name says ‘goodies’ because I intend to offer something beside layouts… something like scripts or maybe software application snippets. The latter has a much greater probability, but then again nothing is absolute… well, almost nothing. Keeping in mind that my lazyness is in a highly advanced stage, don’t hold your breath, though… then again, sometimes miracles do happen.

Geeky-ness Gallore :
Today, while preparing to take a shower (no picture of the shower, for you ), I suddenly realize that I left behind my hair-drying towel. Since I keep making mental notes whenever I forget something ¹, I go on thinking:

I really need to remember to take that yellow file²…
File… File… WHAT file?! … TOWEL not file!
I knew it: I study too much… or I just spend too much time glued to the PC; one of the two in any case.

Google Search :
Dear Visitor,
Instead of searching for earrings for pain, take out the ones you’re wearing now and apply hydrogen peroxide or alcohol³ to the wound in your ears. No matter how nice the earrings, your body is more important.
No, I (Vera) am not a good example to follow.

___________________________________
¹ You’d be surprised how much this helps blogging.

² I’m referring to a computer file, here.

³ Available at your local drugstore, and quite cheap.
Note: you DO know that drugstores (or pharmacies) sell medicines, not extasy or heroin. Right? Just checking that the pain is still bearable.

[EDIT] I’ve finally installed Aneesah’s smilies for WP So now you can enjoy and abuse them (see comment form). [/EDIT]

So it’s finally here, we all know it. I could’ve sworn that everywhere I went everyone greeted it, so I suppose I should do that as well: HAPPY 2007 to all of you.

No resolutions for me… well aside from reviewing more often and better. Why nothing else? I know I won’t keep them. I truly want to be able to rewrite a deeply negative (website) review without the owner feeling they’ve been dragged through mud¹… so keep your eyes open.

As per usual, artistic inspiration tends to strike while I should be working on homework. Click on the thumbnail (below) for a demo. Should you find it (inexplicably) nice, you can get it here.

At the time the urge hit, I truly liked the layout. However, as soon as I realized that there was no way I could make that a pure CSS one I got mightily annoyed… to say the least. Still, I decided not to give up. ‘Lo and behold my first hand-coded tables layout². Any opinions? Yes, I know it isn’t 100% aligned in Internet Explorer (version 6 is what I checked in), but that’s the closest I could get. Oh… and don’t try to use ul respectively ol tags *shudders*. Right… so I might as well lob some molding bread at you. In the end it’s the intent that counts. *cringes*

________________________
¹ To be truthful, I do thrive on e-drama. There, I said it: my whole reason for reviewing. (Ahem! That’s a joke, of course - I just like mindless babble ).

² I used Microrsoft Frontpage before: those rows and columns are a pain to align, define, type out… you name it.