Erin: nah I have girl feet
they always smell like roses

me: lol
I see
And what do boy feet smell like?

Erin: rendering day at the pork factory

me: omg
lol

Erin: …ya I work around the corner from a maple leaf pork rendering factory
man does it reek out there today

me: I have to post this somewhere so I remember this

Erin: post what?
what are you posting?

me: Part of the transcript of this chat

Erin: oh that’s no goo
d

me: Why

Erin: you already keep quotes from Keith…now you’re posting our chats

me: Yeah so?

Erin: I think you may have a quote obsession

me: The whole world ought to know how little you think of boy feet

Erin: lol

I guess I answered posed in the previous post: it looks like I’m keeping the site! This mild facelift should be testament to my intentions of maintaining the site a little bit better. I actually did the redesign in PhotoShop over a year ago but just sat on it until I got tired of the now-obsolete layout.

Part of the motivation of changing the layout is due to some feedback that I got from some of the regular users; the largest complaint had to do with the vertical scrollbar that appeared all too often when content in the main panel exceeded the borders. As someone who has been doing user interfaces for a while, it should have been corrected a long time ago. In my defense, however, I wanted to have a very strict (and, therefore, predictable) layout so that any changes could be done with little chance of breaking something else. I also wanted to have the navigation menu available at all times.

The practicality of that decision, though, was not ideal. Most of the pages had more content than the main pane and, coupled with the fact that the padding at the top was non-trivial, that annoying scrollbar appeared often. Thus, I opted to follow the norm and allowed the navigation menu to scroll away and got rid of that nested scrollbar.

This has resulted in some excellent side-effects. Most notably, the website should be much better to browse on a mobile browser. So, for all of your Palm-, BlackBerry-, or iPhone-toting people out there, I hope you’ll appreciate the difference! I do!

Well, for one reason or another (mostly laziness), I have severely reduced the frequency at which posts are made here. This is not the first time that this has happened either; in fact, I am pretty sure that this is the fourth or fifth time. I really don’t know why I’m not posting anymore… it’s not like I don’t have anything to say or random thoughts that I might want to save for all time… I do! Maybe it has something to do with my not feeling like doing very much after I get home from the gym. Has life become that dull?

What do I do? It’s clear that the traffic this site gets has dropped since there has been very little by way of new content. I barely use the storage space, and I don’t really use the email addresses. Maybe I should just let this thing go to rest. (I can also reduce the likelihood of crazy stalkers finding stuff about me!)

But I’ve had this for over five years. It’s my little spot on the ever-growing Internet. There’s a lot of history on the site and maybe it’s worth keeping. After all, it doesn’t cost much to keep it around. With that kind of attitude, however, I’d be a huge pack rat (like my dad), and that somehow doesn’t sit too well with me.

Is it worth it? I’m not sure.