I was recently hired by closerlook. This inspired me to touch up the blog, which so far has involved a new Art Deco color scheme and integration of sIFR for Flash-based custom fonts in the titles. The cool thing about sIFR's method is that the XHTML still validates.

Which brings me to another change - getting rid of bad Blogger code. I spent a lot of time getting my page to be nice and XHTML Strict only to be undone by Blogger's refusal to simply use & instead of & in their embedded comment and edit code. So, I had to drop the Quick Editing feature and manually rewrite the Blogger-created links in the template. Unfortunately, there's one issue I can't fix - when someone enters a line break in a comment, Blogger inserts <BR /> instead of <br />.

I have other flashier updates in the queue, too, that are sure to impress the one or two friends that visit this site every six months!