Happy April Fool’s Day. I had entertained the idea of redesigning GitM in some topical and humorous fashion for the day’s occasion, but ran out of steam. So, for the third year in a row, here’s Toast in the Machine. Enjoy.
Tag: GitM
Buy! Buy! No, wait…Sell! Sell!
Found in the referrer logs today: Blogshares, a Hollywood Stock Exchange-like site for blog investments. Unfortunately, at the moment I appear to be worth nothing, although I think that’s mainly due to a URL discrepancy. So, hey, I’ve got growth potential.
Spring Cleaning.
As you can see, I tweaked the look of GitM last night after updating to Movable Type 2.62. (Most people have the Tempus Sans ITC font, right?) I tried to go for a lighter look, but then had trouble finding a color scheme where the links didn’t glow unnaturally. At any rate, let me know if you find this harder to read. Also, does anyone out there have any favorable recommendations and/or horror stories regarding Trackback?
Tip of the Iceberg.
On the advice of Eric at Kestrel’s Nest (in the comments here), I added my Sitemeter stat-watcher to all the archived pages of this blog, as well as all the additional stuff over at the main page. Turns out I was way off about the stats around here. The blog (including old posts) and the library entries pull six times as many hits as I thought I was getting (a fact that’s gotten me scrambling to update many of the book reviews – a lot of ’em were written in haste over five years ago…and it shows.) Granted these aren’t long-time readers so much as curious google-searchers, but I was surprised nonetheless. Particularly surprising is how many hits this rather substandard page on David Halberstam gets…there’s not really any interesting information on it, but it gets almost as many hits as this blog. Bizarre. At any rate, thanks for the head’s up, Eric.
New digs, new features.
The ghost has moved! (And the personal site is now at http://www.kevincmurphy.com…most of the links should work, but bear with me during the transition.) Geocities had finally gotten to be too erratic, so now I’m paying less for a much faster, friendlier, and more flexible server with Cornerhost. And, what with the new digs and all, I’ve decided to experiment with Movable Type. So, GitM now has such goodies as permalinks, category archives, comment boards, and other interactive-type stuff other blogs have benefited from for years. If the experiment doesn’t work, I might still go back to old-school html…we’ll see. So far, ah lahk it a lawt.