OK, I’ll stop with the posts soon.
On the Actual Sitetm, I’ve been trying to figure out a way to convey to casual readers that the text in the upper-right is a rotating quote. People seem oddly unable to figure this out. The yellow-on-black question mark with the alert() popup has been my best effort so far.
But I don’t like it.
Presumably, every one of you has a better aesthetic sense than I. So, please, help me fix it to be something awesome. In the meantime, I’m going to be adding Adsense tracking to static pages and rewriting my hand-tooled dynamic pages (the source of those very quotations). Maybe. Maybe I’ll just keep checking my tracking numbers.
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When mid-20th-century futurists prognosticated, they imagined robots and machines doing all the tasks that we mechanically did ourselves. What they, for the most part, did not imagine was the sheer amount of information and data available to us, and how pervasive, immediate, and accessible such information was. I didn’t get it in the ’80s when people were talking about an “Information Age”, but I do now. As late as college, if I wanted to learn something, I would get my bike and ride to the library. In junior high, it was a paper card catalogue. By college, there were electronic records. But the change to today is enormous, magnificent, and awesome.
OK, surely one of you has an idea better than a yellow question mark on a black background. Right?