Wow, I haven’t posted in ages. I suppose both my loyal readers are wondering what I’ve been doing all this time. Well, as it turns out, my new position actually has me fairly busy. I’m acting as a filter between the first-level technicians and the second-level specialists. It can get pretty busy. Coursework has also been an intrusion into my glorious webmasterin’ time. Oh, and UT2004 (Onslaught). That last one, too. I mean, especially.

When I was able to, though, I blithely ignored my schoolwork and paid work in order to launch an exciting new venture: Microspork. Go ahead. Click on it. You know you want to. Yes, I know none of the links go anywhere. There’s no content except for the main page, at least at this point. I was going for an engaging, attractive, and even somewhat fun look that still said "corporate", or at least "keeping up the pretense of legitimacy". The whole thing wasn’t supposed to take anywhere near the time it did. I figured it would take five days, tops, even with the graphics.

Ha.

I spent an entire week reverse engineering some weird but free Javascript to make popup menus using DIV tags, and finally figured it out, to my immense satisfaction. "Look upon my works, ye savvy, and despair!" thought I. But lo, it turns out the Javascript features weren’t supported by any other browser than IE. It was broken in Netscape, Firefox, and Safari. Damn, damn, and quintuple heck! Curse thee, foul spawn of Redmond, for not adhering to standards, even if thy features be inadvertently righteous!

So I discarded all that effort and made stupid links that go NOWHERE instead. I was feeling kinda burnt on the whole "site navigation" thing by that time. To assuage my pain, I created a few animated .GIFs and broke out with the Bryce, long untouched these many years, for a quick 3D render of a product box that came out pretty well, in my estimation.

Now you know what I was squandering my time on. It’s kind of a relief to get it done, even if there’s not much there. I actually have some decent material for new posts here, so maybe I’ll get around to that soon. Unless I tire of destroying Blue power cores, in which case I’ll post sooner than that.