Life, Interrupted

Just a reminder to check the auto-renew status on your domains. I thought I'd set one to Manual, and turns out it was on auto-renew for two years. My decision to drop that one was recent, so I just got dinged by GoDaddy.com for two years on a domain I don't want.

I will be moving everything I can from them in the next two weeks, and the two that I can't move will transfer as soon as possible after their renew. So this just confirms leaving a group that has insulted me with their advertising for several years now. Have been too busy to bother with it.

No longer too busy.

So -- web site parking is getting expensive. I am letting go some sites. .MOBI is going -- but I also have Dragonrain.INFO, Dragonrain.ORG and Dragonrain.US. Which should I keep? This is the title for the dragon book I'm planning.

I've tossed up a website for a friend whose self-published (and quite good, actually) novel is released July 4th. I know the browsers never match, but I'd like it to look good in both Firefox and IE (designed for Firefox 3.0, because I am out of date coding and I know that better). I'd be interested to know of any fast way to get the white Firefox table to show up in IE. It would solve the problem of the bottom navigation not looking right on page 3, because the left column is only navigation. Also can't remember how to shorten the table on two -- we don't need quite so much space under the sample right now. I cut heights in two places, but the browser is having none of it.

I would be interested to know how it looks in AOL (boo hiss) Safari and anything else someone wants to contribute. If one is hopeless, I'll have to put up a suggested browser. I tried to find her a designer, but everyone was not taking new clients!

It's www.chanterpress.com for the curious.

By they way -- this would be a wonderful purchase for anyone interested in WWII or family/generational works. The author is published in short and non-fiction, and it's been professionally edited and copy-edited. She just got tired of 22 year old agents & NYC editors telling her that no one was interested in WWII anymore. She wanted a Father's Day release, but Lulu was very hard to work with...I may have to look for another packager for me, if Lulu is going downhill.

More confirming the "F" pattern of web design, and also including the currently amusing pass-around that shows a photo of George Brett at bat. The women were focused on his face, while the men alternated between face and crotch.

On another site (the one I came from) a commenter claimed that this was the strike zone. Well, yes...the belt is. But there's almost always a cut to the pitcher releasing the ball. Apparently, men also check out even the equipment of dogs when asked to browse the American Kennel Club site.

So yes -- between thinking about women and comparing themselves to other males, perhaps men ARE thinking about sex every 3 seconds... ;^)

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070312ruel/index.cfm

Here I finally pay for my account, go looking for different ways to display the journal...and they are either a) boring or b) hiding somewhere so I can't just flip through a bunch.

I may have to design my own.

Waiting for W to return from the gym so we can go New Year's Eve with folk -- no First Night here, the idea of willingly going to an area with 500,000 people is a non-starter for me.

Yeah, I don't do the Trail of Tights, either...

CODA: All right, Trail of LIGHTS, thank you very much. Do I make fun of YOUR typos?! And the film was indeed HOODWINKED -- "Into the Woods" being the musical that body-slams as many fairy tales as they can cram into the time slot.