Jynnan Tonnyx

Once again, in my eternal quest to get good hosting on the cheap, I’ve moved servers yet again. If you’re seeing this message, the DNS has propagated, and it’s pointing to the new host at ServerPronto.

Things will be a little shaky around here for a while until I get the new WordPress software up and running well. I was using Movable Type, but the license terms for the newest version were unacceptable, and the version I was using, 2.661, was getting comment-spammed into oblivion. The last straw came today when I cleaned out over 100 comment spams.

So, the look and feel will be a bit clunky until I can work on a new template for the site. Please bear with me.

If any of you have been trying to post comments lately, I apologize for the problems. My web hosting company, Fidelity Hosting, has been completely unreachable the last few weeks, ever since they broke my connectivity to the database back end that drives this site. After trying for over two weeks to contact somebody, anybody, about the problems, I finally resolved to move the site to a new hosting company. I chose WestHost, and we’ll see how that goes. Everything should be back online now, except the baby website, which I hope to have working soon.

That’s short for “Yet Another New Website Look.” I’ve been experimenting a lot with stylesheets since I moved to the new website, and I wanted to find a way to make the menus work without complicated JavaScript. I adopted a technique from Eric Meyer’s CSS/Edge website. They work great in Mozilla (and thus I assume Navigator 7) and Safari, but there are problems in Camino. Other browsers, I couldn’t say — I’m not interested in paying for a browser. Of course, the standards-scoffing beast that is Internet Explorer doesn’t render the menus, because they use a CSS2 selector that Microsoft didn’t implement. Read more…

Well, for me, anyway, if not for Colorado.

I HAVE A JOB!

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