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After receiving comments and several private e-mails, I pared down my link list…a LOT. Some of you will notice that only a few remain, and it looks like I probably deleted a few that I want to put back up (sorry Problogger!). Looking at other blogs, the list is still too long and needs to be cut back some more.

I propose a contest. We all like sales, shows, and contests, right?

I will be deleting links to blogs that don’t leave a comment to this post. Some will stay just by virtue that I love your blog, but if you read on, you will see a bonus to commenting and such. There are some rules, of course:

1. No gold-farming, pay-to-level, or questionable sites will get a link.
2. It must be updated at least weekly. If I go there and the last post was December…well, get on the ball.
3. Follow rules 1 & 2.

IF you write a review on your blog of my blog, or especially your favorite post on my blog, then I will assign you a higher rank than the others and will see about displaying the list according to rank.

The deadline is Monday morning when I come in to work around 6:30am.

EDIT: I don’t want anyone to think this is being harsh. I loved having my link list, but it was the longest thing on my site. This excellent comment by Josh was what pushed me off my butt to do some house-cleaning:

Your page shouldn’t be 2/3 links, 1/3 content at any viewing “angle”.

While horizontally, this will still be the case, it won’t have the amount of content to scroll through and detract from my writing.

I got all of my ducks in a row yesterday and got my plane ticket, hotel room, and registered for SOBCon 07!

I’m a-goin’ and I’m gonna love it! My plane arrives barely in time for the grand opening on Friday night, but I’m only doing a carry-on, so it will just be a matter of notifying the hotel of my flight for the shuttle. I leave at 7:00 the next day, giving me enough time to get back to the airport and through security to be home a mere 30 hours after I left the day before.

I have several parties to thank, though I did not give permission to use names, so here are some generalities:

• For sponsoring my admission costs, I thank one of Liz’s readers who is unable to attend.
• For sponsoring my plane ticket, I had 7 contributions that came out to $5.30 more than what I needed. Nothing wasted at all, as I’m sure 2 Cokes at the airport will take care of that. Thank you.
• For sponsoring my hotel bill, I thank one of the speakers who has bestowed some tasks upon me in preparation. What I most love about that deal is, despite needing to complete work, I am taking what I was asked to do as an honor and a privilege.

I know this blog isn’t about blogging or writing, but those skills play a major role in the content that you read every day, and I hope that when I return your experiences will all reap massive benefits from what I learn and experience in Chicago.

I went home yesterday to check how the blog looks on Firefox,and I was horrified at how the sidebars look. I worked on it for an hour, but had many other things on my checklist for the night, so they will just have to look like that for a while.

There is something in the automatic code for the lists that adds tags that it will take a while to sort out. Some things change the Explorer look, others the Firefox look, but nothing makes them both look the same. Yet.

Please bear with me.

Did that fix it now? I think I found the code in the widget plugin and edited an extra li /li out. Firefox users, speak up, or forever…bah, I’ll see it when I get home in 10 hours.

My dad is being seen by an orthopedic surgeon today after totalling his 2000 Kawasaki Concours Sunday afternoon. He will have his right wrist and his left thumb operated on to repair damage done by the handlebars when he did his aerial acrobatics. Surgery is tomorrow, but a time has yet to be set in stone.

Please send him some lovin’ and check out all of his pictures; fireworks, Katria damage, his bike (in pristine condition), and his lovely random photos. He’s quite the photographer IMHO. Leave a message and put up a link if you’d like.

He’s told me that he will be posting the wreck pics after he crops and color adjusts them for the insurance adjuster. He can’t leave a good photo “good.” It’s got to be GREAT.

Jerry Petersen’s Webshots Albums

Here is the forums thread that his riding partner posted about the wreck:

Jerry Petersen’s COG Forum Thread

If you like that stuff, I’m going to set him up a WP blog on my host for him to post away and keep in touch when they move back to Roatan, Honduras permanantly to run radio station HRGS. They went for 2 1/2 years before, but now that I’m hitched to the most wonderful wife in the world, he said, “meh, why not move back for good?” They need some more support and to get their house sold, and then they’re gone.

It was a pretty bad night last night. I totally wrecked a friend’s laptop when I tried to hook it up to his workgroup at home. Normally that is a huge DUH process…except he was still logging in using the domain at the office. ooops

Nothing worked. I went off the clock because I’d obviously made a serious error and I didn’t want him getting mad. After an hour, he offered to let me take it home so he could eat dinner and give me all of my resources at home.

I went home and totally ruined a new recipe we clipped and had to force ourselves to eat it. The meat was good, but everything in/on it was just not doing it for us.

After doing a search, I discovered I’m in good company. My search yielded a lot of hits. [Read more…] about No WoW Last Night

Lance and Tomas, along with others, have noted that comments are getting downright buggy now. I think there must be something in the code for my comments.php, so instead of trouble-shooting that and taking things offline and risk losing everything (AGAIN!), I went theme-hunting. 

I hunted high and low for something that will allow me to update my toons’ portraits in a prominent place and also attempt to shorten the page by adding one more sidebar. It is going to take some monkeying around with the margins and padding, but I think I can muster a good layout from this:

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