Well, I’ve figured out how to make category icons to appear next to my post titles, but I’m still working on making them appear in the category list in the right-hand menu. In any case, I’m having a lot of fun figuring out this database-driven stuff. 😀
Iconfactory ROCKS!
Lucky me, Corey Marion at The Iconfactory replied to my email right away, and I’m okay to use some of the Smoothicons on this site. Wheeeee!
The Iconfactory
I am contacting the fine folks at The Iconfactory about using some of their icons for the blog, to denote segments of the site, such as the forthcoming “What I’m reading/listening to/watching Now” sections. The “Smoothicon” series designed by Corey Marion is gorgeous, even at small sizes, like how it would be used on the…
Yo
This is the first post on my new self-hosted blog. Many happy returns!
False Sense of Security
This morning, when I came in to work at NIH (the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, MD), everyone was on alert. Well, really, we’ve been on alert since a year ago. Right after the terrorist attacks, NIH went on super-high-ultra-alert, and was performing car and bag searches on everyone, every day. I had to…
Later that same day…
In addition to the den cleaning thing, I’m working on moving my sites to my own server at home. SITM is in the pipeline to move soon, so if it goes offline for a few days, I thought you, my two remaining viewers, might like to know that it’s not cause for panic. I also…
Update
Haven’t done much in a while, because— well— I’ve been trying to clean out my den. It’s a bigger chore than you might think. Just ask my friend AAl— he’ll tell you I’ve moved the same crap around with me through six moves in the last ten years, and it’s still not organized.