It’s been a while since I’ve posted photos (10 whole days), and I’m sure the antsy-ness is brewing. I added a large batch to the Lindsay (@Home 4) gallery, along with a few more in a new Friends & Family gallery.
I’ve also got some pictures of our house from when we moved in (Dec ‘02) and of our wedding (Aug ‘02) from Sim and Carrie. Once I get them organized and cleaned up, I’ll post them.
I figured out what the problem was with the rose skin. IE didn’t like the left border on the blog entries for some reason. So I removed it, and changed the rest of the borders slightly to compensate.
So….. Barney takes Lindsay in to change her this evening while I’m watching a show on T.V. I hear him babbling to her and I know he’s done something wrong when I hear him giggling as he re-enters the t.v. room. He brings Lindsay in and he has her onesie buttoned up on the OUTSIDE of her pants. He said he had already put her pants back on when he realized the onesie was still undone, and that he didn’t feel like undressing her again! 
That’s what happens when you leave daddy to change the girlie. 
You can go check out the picture I took of the incident in the photo galleries.
The rose is gone until I can figure out another really bizarre IE quirk. For whatever reason, the text of each entry got 2 pixels wider (one on each side) as they went down the page, without the container borders getting wider. By the fourth or fifth entry, the text was on top of the border, making it hard to read. So I reverted to the ugly old blue skin until I can figure out what’s up.
Well, Lindsay and I are back from our visit to Portland. We had a nice time hanging out with friends and family, as always. I really wish people would come visit us more often though, because it really does get exhausting traveling so much, especially with an infant. Hint, hint….
Barney should be posting some new pics of our visit this week, so keep checking back.
As is obviously the case, there’s a new look to the site. After I made the lighthouse skin for BarneyBlog, Heather desperately wanted a prettier look for this site. So I threw this one together, complete with a sprig of heather, just for kicks. To get the look I wanted, I needed to make use of the alpha transparency that only PNG images provide. That means MSIE users will not get the full effect, because Microsoft decided to not support that features for whatever reason. Any other modern browser (released in the last few years), will render them properly.
I finally took the time to create an extensible layout/skinning mechanism for the site. In simpler terms, that means I can now change the way the site is presented simply by switching out a CSS stylesheet. In plain English, the sites look and feel can now be changed by flipping a single switch. It’s not set up right now, but in the future that switch will reside right here, so you can select the skin you want to see yourself, rather than being stuck with what I select.
Right now, little has changed. However, now that the framework is in place, I’ll be able to make new, prettier skins for the site and transparently switch them in and out, just like I did to BarneyBlog this evening.
Heather and Lindsay are down in Portland this week, staying with Chloe, Patick and Gail. Hopefully she’ll get online any post if anything interesting occurs, but that will be the limit of the Lindsay-related updates at least until next weekend.
4 new photos in the Lindsay (@ Home 4) gallery from when we were at Carrie and Sim’s house this weekend.
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Carrie protested the lack of love in the entry above, because I only linked to Sim’s site (which is actually titled for both of them, but whatever). So there’s a link to her personal site.
During a conversation about something, my mind underwent one of it’s trademark tangential rampages and I decided it was very important to learn about name frequencies in the US. At the Census Bureau’s web site, they have some data about name frequencies, both top ten lists and a search within the top 90% (cumulative) of most common names.
BATEMAN 1684
BOISVERT 4318
EHLERS 5343
GORMAN 1175
KISVARDAY n/r
WHISLER 9611
CARRIE 129
CHLOE 1137
DOLORES 171
GAIL 155
HEATHER 53
PEGGY 101
LINDSAY 302
BARNEY 705
CHRIS 96
GERALD 58
NICK 308
NIKOLAI n/r
PATRICK 42
SIMEON n/r
STUART 302
The data are drawn from a sample of about 7.2 million records from the 1990 census. Included on the site is a article about all the work they had to do to generate the info.