WHEW!! Here it is . . . my new home-slash-amusement-park on the web!!

Look around. Click things. There's still a lot to do. My archives aren't set up, and I still want to add a comprehensive links page. And the "Boys" feature at the bottom of the page probably needs some explaining. For now, though, I'll leave it kind of cryptic. Soak it all in, and let me know what technical difficulties you encounter.

I'm so excited!!

Well, Day 1 of SD2, and nothing's exploded yet. The fun scripts down below seem to be working WAY better than the crappy crawl applet at the top of my old site ever did. Now if I can just get the comments window to close when you click "submit" . . . and automatically refresh the main page immediately thereafter, if that's not asking so very much . . .

Ah, well. All in good time.

Here are some of the "credits" for this new website:

Eternal love to Christine for telling me that I could, and that I should. And for making it possible with her advice, her fabulous hosting business, and her Mad MT Setup Skillz.

All the graphics are mine (created from scratch or bought and paid for), except of course for the link graphics on the left, and the Sacred Chao in the lower right-hand corner. The Sacred Chao is eternally Kopylefted by the Godess of Chaos (All Rights Reversed).

All colors replicated at this website are actually found in nature (except possibly the green links in the comments popup).

Design inspiration comes - in spirit - from The City of Lost Children, Brazil, and the space-ship control room of every early-nineties CD-ROM fantasy-sci-fi adventure game.

Well, for the record, scrollbars are definitely the Drama Queens of the html/css world. They are so goddamn needy!!

You have all no doubt noticed the various phases of scrollbar drama here over the past week. First I set them up so they looked fine on Windows, but they were all screwed up on Mac . . . the text would crawl up under the right-hand scrollbar, becoming illegible (and no doubt causing some unpleasant chafing for the scrollbar).

So I fixed that, but the new scrollbar configuration "broke" my graphics in Windows, so that the sides of the green boxes didn't completely connect to each other.

Then I fixed that problem, but the only way I could manage to do it was to pull the scrollbars about 15 pixels out from the right-hand side of the display area. This was functional but looked kind of . . . stupid.

So for the record, scrollbars are now my BITCH. I have totally forced them to shut up and submit, and now they do exactly what I tell them to . . . they appear in a reasonably aesthetically pleasing manner on both Mac and Windows.

In Explorer, that is. Netscape apparently doesn't believe in inline scrollbars. Oh, well. Netscape is a whore.

And that reminds me of one very important design credit I neglected to mention before . . .

My Laptop.

This website was designed almost entirely on public transit, with my fabulous new iBook. I was even able to run the php scripts through the iBook's local OSX server while I was riding underneath the San Francisco Bay on the BART train . . . no live internet connection or remote server upload necessary.

Pretty cool.

One problem, though. I have owned my iBook for almost two months now, and it still doesn't have a name.

I've considered a few names, but I haven't found one that really fits.

So I appeal to the creative genius of my readers. Help me out! What do you think my iBook's name should be? What name would befit the beautiful instrument that is William Ted's digital sidekick, the Robin to my Batman, the Tonto to my Lone Ranger, the Macaulay Culkin to my Michael Jackson, the . . . uh . . . Snoop Dogg to my Jimmy Kimmel?

(OK. Forget those last two examples.)

Save this talented laptop from nameless obscurity!! Give it your best shot.

If I end up using the name you suggest, I promise to let you touch it.

The laptop, I mean.

Back by popular demand!

For those of you who have been fondly remembering it (or who may have heard about it for the first time recently), here's the link to the Gay Sex Position Quiz from my old site. I'll put a permanent link around here somewhere in the near future.

Be sure and let me know what position you are!!