“Dig Deep” is not only the name of the new theme, of course for the grass + soil + sullied paper composition, but is a bit metaphorical…with me of course there’s always a metaphor. It was difficult to work this all out in a satisfying way. Certainly the structure is a drastic improvement. I’d say I’m about 75% happy with the overall result, and it’s certainly good enough for me to look beyond the superficial design details and get on to what’s of genuine importance…sharing words and pictures. There will be much more of that, oh yes!

So here’s the initial browser stat summary for this site, which is completely hilarious considering real world IE penetration is right around 90%. Here IE is only rocking around 10% or 12%, and is just beating out Safari. Pure comedy. Surely this is going to change completely within a few weeks and in all fairness it only represents a few thousand page-views- but for now it’s fantastic to see Firefox ruling the roost.

One note on the post comments- currently your first post is placed in queue pending my approval- after that all comments will be posted immediately for your viewing pleasure. This is just a simple trick for spam prevention.

A Few Details

I haven’t moved the pictures over yet so the site right now is a little barren, but they’ll be back in shape pretty soon- with many more additions. I’ve got literally gigabytes of photos I’m sifting through with the aid of iView Media Pro, which I’m currently quite infatuated with. The big decision left is whether to install and hack away at gallery, a great full-featured web photo cataloguing application, or put the nose to the grindstone and finish up the PHP and flash mini web app I’ve been cooking up myself. (Sorry, no preview.)

Where’s That Old Stuff?

I’ve got the majority of the archives up here in pretty much the same format they were before, just with a new bit of packaging. Unfortunately the permanent links to old articles are now different, but I’ve made it mostly easy to track down items by date, for instance December 2004 now lives here:

wishkoski.com/archives/2004/12/

You can also still click on the “Permanent Link” next to all the old individual posts and get an updated URI for easy and quick bookmarking.

In short I’ve got a lot of work left to do, but if you know me getting started is always the hardest part- the rest is just cream cheese.

Smile Nick! There’s bubbles dammit…bubbles!

I also had a fun time the short while I was in New York, swinging quickly through the Met and the Guggenheim. A big reason I felt compelled to hit the Met was the Diane Arbus “Revelations” exhibit. It was fantastic.

So what is the problem? What is the delay? Well now my hideous mission is to enter every single update for four years into a database. I’ve looked at ways to write to my MySQL database- create some PHP to export what I have currently in my home-built system- but I’ve decided that would take longer than actually re-entering every single posting.

I’m up to April ’02, long way to go.

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