Will Slusher.net

So… I’m trying a little something new with the site… color… well, a little bit of it at least… :)

The theme is still evolving, but I thought it might be good to get it up and get a little feedback (assuming anyone actually ever looks at this thing anymore considering how infrequently I update these days)…  So, let me know what you think… if you want…

At the moment, I know that there is apparently an issue with the IE and the little blue bubbles on the side bar…  I’ll have to dig through the CSS to try and figure out what’s going on there…  or, preferably, everyone can just switch to Firefox… That would make my life easier at least…

I also have a little work to do to adapt my photo album scripts to the new theme…  I think I may try to figure out how plugins work in WordPress and adapt it to work that way…  it would certainly make it easier next time I redesign…
Anyway, in other news my laptop is on the blink again…  When last we left this saga my iBook was in the shop getting it’s logic board and hard drive replaced…  Well, I got it back a few days after that and everything seemed fine… altho a little slower…  Finally I checked out the system info and, oops!, someone put in the wrong logic board…  instead of my usual 1.2GHz processor, I now had a 1.0GHz…

Well, I put off doing anything about that until last week, when everything crapped out and the best I could get was an occassional kernel panic…

Sooo, after an very painful half hour on the phone with an Apple tech (well, 6 minutes with the tech, 24 on hold while he talked to his manager), I finally convinced them to take it back, give me the right logic board, and (I thought at least) resolve the other issue which I think is a failed hard drive…  well, I got it back today and it looks like they just replaced the logic board and shipped it back to me without even trying to boot it up…  I just tried wiping it out completely (again) and reinstalling and, after hanging halfway through the intitial setup, it’s now just hangs on bootup…

I think this time I’m going to suck it up and make the hour drive to the Richmond Apple Store…  It’s a little more effort, but I feel a little better when I can actually show someone (who, in past experience at least, SEEMS rather knowledgable) what’s going on…

Sigh……….

Anyway, other than that, things are going pretty well…  Things with the love of my life Kristina keep getting better and better…  We should have an interesting week or two coming up… We’re going to see Nada Surf in concert this week, then next week we have an excellent night out at The Shabeen planned…  We also have at least one little trip planned in the upcoming months, and probably a few more once Kris hears from a few more grad schools…

Other than that, things are pretty quiet…  yeah…