Credit where it's due

This is just a fast update to give credit where it's due.

This page got some tweaks over the weekend, courtesy of Electablog. a fellow Michigander (though he lives about 500 miles away). He did two things for me:

--Got the "subscribe" link on this page to actually work.

--Changed around the comment box, putting it on the same page as the entry, where it ought to be.

However, there was a third improvement today, too, and Electablog had nothing to do with it.

I found the instructions on how to add the comment avatar, went into my HTML to insert the needed line, took away the spaces, took a deep breath and hit the save button.

It worked! The avatars are there. Isn't it so cool?

OK, OK, it may not seem like much of an achievement to most of you, but for me ... I'm damn proud of myself.

You know, this could be only the beginning. I'm thinking of going into the HTML and sticking my hands into -- are you ready for this? --the color hex codes!

In all honesty, I did do a little programming in the past, but very little in the last 10+ years. There are so many programming languages nowadays. So I let it go and now I simply grab something that looks nice. I think I started dropping out of programming about the time they stopped using line numbers.

Line numbers. As in BASIC. You remember BASIC, don't you?

10 FOR A=1 TO 10
20 IF A=1 THEN PRINT "Hi, bartender! Gimme a beer."
25 IF A<>1 THEN PRINT "Hi, bartender! Gimme me ";A;" beers."
30 PAUSE 10
40 IF A=3 OR A=6 OR A=9 THEN PRINT "Burp!!!"
50 NEXT A
60 PRINT "No more for me, thank you. I'm plastered!"
70 PRINT "Uh-ohh! I think I'm going puke."
80 FOR B=1 TO 5
90 PRINT "BARFFFFFFF!!"
100 NEXT B
110 END

Ah, those were the days, kiddies.