The traditional location of this blog is not long for this world. I just spring for a domain name and some cheap hosting, and will soon move up into the realm of websites proper. (So much for my permalinks being permanent, eh? I doubt anyone used them, so I don’t feel bad.)

We’ll see if I can get things set up tomorrow evening. Should be an adventure, right? And once I get things over there, I can work on porting brent//BLOG to some more automated system that should (at least) allow for comments.

Woooooo!

Nobody knows where the fun will stop.

Getting all that sorted out kinda ate away at my evening, though, so I don’t really have time to update everybody on the brick-a-brack of my daily life. You’ll just have to look forward to my tale of a Beanery visit with John, and a secondhand tale of how weird my cat is—though I doubt anybody ever really needs further reason to look forward to a Friday.

One last tweak for the night: I’ve reworked things so that there should be no double-loading of pictures and titles—which probably affects modem users much moreso than broadband, since those pictures load that much slower. The catch is, now the page requires JavaScript to show a proper picture and title. Without JavaScript, all you’ll get is a transparent box where the picture should be, and something dumb like “blog.html” for the title.

What do y’all think? Is it worth assuming JavaScript support (after all, I already assume CSS support), or should I fall back on the tried-and-true hardcoded pictures and titles?

Since I finished my somewhat-functioning blog picture rotation, I set myself to the task of updating my ⁄⁄links page. And—for once—I did! You now have access to a more up-to-date peek at the sites I frequent these days. I’d like to think that these sites are some of the better ones on the web, but I’ll refrain from going that far.

Wow. Methinks I’ve spent enough time in front of my computer today.

Now you can (randomly) revisit complete brent//BLOG layouts from the past, complete with their associated titles. I’m sure you’re thrilled, right?

I’m liking this better, I think. There seem to be some reloading issues (i.e. the browser will load the initial sidebar picture and title, and then replace them) that are somewhat annoying, though.

Yes! Starting right now, this blog features the latest in blogging innovation: the rotating picture! Every time this page loads, a random picture (currently out of ten pictures all used previously for the blog…no need to collect them all) will be chosen for display.

Yes, it’s a tiny bit of JavaScript. Yes, the page still functions normally if JavaScript isn’t enabled.

Why JavaScript? Because Comcast won’t let me run anything on their servers: as far as they’re concerned, I’m lucky I can host HTML and CSS files. Incidentally, that’s also the reason why this blog has no viewable comment link (I really miss that feature), or that mysterious TrackBack link I see in so many other blogs.

I dunno if I’ll keep my rotating images—I’m somewhat partial to having the title of the page linked to a particular picture. Next, I suppose, is to see if I can change the title of the page depending on what picture is selected. Anyway: what do you all think? It ain’t much…

Instead of bringing you news about how I took all of Eric’s [fake] money yesterday in a game of pseudo-poker, I bring you this message from the Emergency Broadcast System (no, this is not a drill):

Comcast is finalizing the transition of AT&T broadband users to its own Comcast network tomorrow (Monday, June 30th). [Actually, their notices are so vague that I’m unsure if the transition will occur between the 29th and 30th, or the 30th and 1st.] I have no idea what’ll become of the AT&T web pages when they do transition, so I offer you this unattractive, yet functional, method of finding my new site (once I find out where it is):

The Magical Mystery Link

Bookmark this link, if you happen to see this page before it goes offline for good, and I’ll update it once I know what my latest URL is. Email addresses should switch from xxx@attbi.com to xxx@comcast.net, as well, although email sent to the old address is supposed to be forwarded through December 2004.

Yes, getting my own domain name would be easier than all of this. But it would also cost me money. =P