Oh, that wacky Shadout Mapes!
A few changes, here and there, to this blog-like apparatus: most notably, I’d like to direct your attention to the little Danegelt box there in the right sidebar (down a bit, past Achivery, past the Deltolographs, just above Permanescence, which you’ll find refreshed with links to pre- and non-blog content: Herschberg [now with discussion forum, oh my], that thing I wrote about Buffy, my second 24-hour comic [be gentle], and the somewhat-less-hiatused-than-last-week City of Roses). Recent linkage has bumped my traffic something fierce; I actually had to buy extra bandwidth last month. Not that I’m complaining much. Or making an overt plea. But: if you were so inclined, there’s a couple of tip jars on the edge of the pier, there: PayPal will let you slip some virtual folding green in (if not make an easy text-based permalink in the course of a blog post); BitPass will let you chuck in a nickel—heck, a penny, if that’s what you feel like. (It’ll also take nothing at all, yes. —It’s a micropayment system, if you missed the brouhaha: you have to put a minimum of I think it’s five bucks in, but you can spend that in nickels and dimes and quarters on mp3s and comics and prose and toys and tipping the occasional weblogger, wherever you see the BitPass sign.) —There’s also a link to the requisite Amazon Wish List, which is more so friends and family can find it easily than anything else, but hey: bait never laid traps no bears.
Other than that: an updated colophon, to reflect the broad array of syndication possibilities available (two flavors of RSS and Atom, whoo!) whose nuances I still haven’t a clue as to; also, I finally remembered to add a link to Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into Accessibility, which is a good starting point for making your site better than it is if you haven’t yet. And I remembered to close some image tags and line breaks; the sort of stuff that you can’t see at all, but makes validators clutch their pearls and shriek instead of just tutting darkly over the same phrase being used as link text for more than one location. —But hey, it took up most of yesterday morning, so I figured, what the heck. Make a note. (I couldn’t mow! I’ve got a busted elbow!)
Mmm, City of Roses. From this corner: quiet, restrained, polite good cheer at the thought of more.