BrianJarrett.com

There’ve been a bunch of changes here at BrianJarrett.com. First of all, you’ve probably noticed the new design of the site. I used a CSS that I got from bluerobot.com and modified it to incorporate my site content. I hated the old design of the site and I’m much happier now with the overall look of things. My wife says it’s boring but I like it. The old design wasn’t that exciting either so there’s no harm done. My friend Tim suggested server side includes to dynamically generate menus so now this code is ten times easier to maintain. I like to call this design “simple yet elegant”. Traci says it looks like a textbook. Don’t worry, despite all these changes the Orson pictures are still in the same place they were before. Just click “Photo Gallery” on the menu to the left.

Other than changes to the site things have been relatively calm around here. I’ve begun doing summer things again (like mowing the grass and sweating) and I’m looking forward to full-blown summer. Orson has been doing really well; he’s gotta be up to eleven or twelve pounds by now. He’s now able to roll onto his back from his stomach so I figure he’ll be mobile before we know it. He’s getting to be more fun each day.

SBC finally got my DSL turned back on again so the site is back up. The rat bastard I was getting DSL through evidently lost his business license last fall because he failed to submit an annual report but continued to do business up until a week or two ago; that’s when he warned me he was cancelling my DSL by just turning it off one day. So one morning I have it, later that day I have nothing. So I had to scramble to find a way to get my e-mail and host the site. Luckily my friend Tim came through and hosted my mail and web server until SBC got me back online. And, by the way, SBC doesn’t offer true static IPs anymore; they’re static via PPPoE (called “sticky” IPs). They won’t tell you that when you call nor will any level one tech understand it. I spent an entire day waiting because SBC’s level one techs were too inept to even know I had “sticky” IPs. Pitiful. My infant son knows as much as they do and he can’t even hold his head up yet.