Feaverish

If you’re wondering why the dearth of posts of late, it’s because I’ve been busy. Busy, for me, means fewer than, say, six hours of responsibility-free time per day. It’s very stressful.

Pritchy.com was launched last week, though the international press paid little notice; it’s a simple site, but it gets the job done. I’m at least proud of the fact that it basically took only two weekends of hard work—again, relatively speaking—to build a website from scratch. I learned a few CSS tricks, and I’m starting to get the hang of Flash’s interface, which could come in handy down the road sometime. I’d like for the flash embed to be standards-compliant, and a pretty little contact form would be nice, but that’s gonna have to wait for another free weekend.

I’m also redesigning our website here at work. Again, it’s a simple affair, but when the dust has settled at least there’ll be one fewer tables-based site, and one more XHTML Strict site. I’d like to take it further, maybe some sIFR or some nifty Javascript, but as usual my ambition far outstrips my ability, so it’ll be interesting to see the final result. At least I finally get to use some sans-serifs.

This weekend’s shaping up to be pretty busy as well, what with Tiger “on the truck for delivery,” according to FedEx. Did you ever notice that FedEx’s logo makes a little forward-pointing arrow? It’s formed by the apertures of the E and the X. I just noticed that a couple of days ago. It’s either some kind of subliminal advertising or directions for the truck drivers, i.e. “Packages go in that end.”