Daily Archives: January 23, 2004

Less Horrible

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Oh, forget the tropical colors. They’re too wimpy.

Here I am back at the webpaint store, but the redecorating is almost done.

VACCC — VisiBone Anglo-Centric Color Code

Oh, I don’t know, too many choices, maybe I’d better keep shopping.

There’s still a bit more tinkering with fonts. I love the look of Garamond font for the posts, but need a more readable italic.

It is to sigh.

Guess I’ll trudge back to the default standbys – Georgia and Palatino.

I managed somehow to install Blogroll on my own but it looks crappy. Hey, guys, it’s not as simple as clicking a link and installing a bit of code – the background gets hosed if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Which I don’t.
But at least I remembered to add the div and sidetitle tags in the index, since I’d seen David do that before… and figured out how to at least get the blogroll to adhere to the basic style of the rest of the side. I have to tinker a bit more, I don’t understand why the border and side don’t extend to the bottom in a predictable way. But I’ll figger it out, and at least for now it looks a bit more consistent.

Except for the italics. I have to figure out where that’s coming from. ‘Cause it’s not that readable, and it’s out of synch with everything else. It may be coming from Blogrolling’s preferences screen.

Italics. Here we are again. This post appears to be disappearing up its own backside.

Living in the Past

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Speaking of travel, which we weren’t except for Amazing Race, so there nyahhh…

The first entry from my travel journal of last fall’s trip to Britain has been posted, and basically the journal will be the entire month of September.

There are a lot of photos and links to add for each entry, and it will take a bit of time getting photos cropped and saved in the proper format and positioned and whatnot. I hope to get the all-important “first day in London” entry up this weekend.

In the meantime, why don’t you slip down to the local and have a Fuller’s Honeydew Melon while you wait?

Are They Off Or What???

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I stopped by Television Without Pity to see if there was any news about the next season of The Amazing Race and found there were rumors flying in the “Spoilers” thread. The race is on!!

Or is it?

One rumor seemed really credible at first – people spotted running around in very TAR-like style in Vancouver, BC – but it there’s a chance that the sighting actually a fall event that has an “Amazing Race” theme.

Apparently there’s a company that runs task-based adventure/racing activities as team building exercises there. In the meantime, Canadians aren’t eligible to enter the Race according to current rules. Which seems hardly fair, since the show is very popular north of the border.

It’s not right!

Go, Canada! If American TV shows won’t let you enter their competitions, just build it yourself out of cast-off appicances and abandoned K-cars, and race around the Great White North your own bad toqued selves – and while you’re at it, you really should think about starting up a network to rival anything the Big American Networks could ever produce. Or maybe… infiltrate as you always have.
The other rumor may or may not pay off, but it’s intriguing. A former racer thinks his doctor may have some other patients in the upcoming class of TAR5 contestants… that is, if he wasn’t assuming it was The Amazing Race just because he already has one former Racer on the books. 😉

Either way, given the logistics of Racing, editing, and getting the episodes ready to air, the Race is either just about to begin, or has already started. That is, if they’re sticking to the rumored summertime premiere date. Oh, hope hope hope hope hope!