In which I go on and on about crap like WP plugins and widgets and CSS.

I have made this new template work! Yay! In more than one browser, even! YAY ME!

It turns out that IE gets pissed if the math doesn’t work in one’s CSS; in other words, if your container is 800 px wide and your left column and right column (including padding or margins) does not equal 800, the page fails to render. Which sucks. Also, if you have an element inside a column that is wider than the column itself, the page fails to render. Which sucks.

Here’s the list of crap I accomplished last night:

1. Make this layout work in IE.
2. Find and install an RSS icon.
3. Link to Rants9.
4. Make an Archive page that works.
5. Make a Category heatmap.
6. Make the padding around Flickr images in the sidebar not suck.
7. Add All Consuming to the sidebar.
8. Add Current Status plugin to post pages.
9. Figure out HOW to alpha sort my Blogroll.
10. Feel like I have a template I can enjoy for more than two weeks!

So I know most of you probably hate this template, and want to go back to something else, and/or think it’s too busy… change sucks, I know. But sound off anyway. Hurt me.

I’ve quasi-updated the SiteTech page, which tells you all about what I’m running here on the site. I need to update it further because I’m not using some of the things listed there.

Now I’m gonna run and get some lunch. Ciao, babies!

Update: I bought soup and a sandwich from Revelations, where I found The Purse I Want. OMG! It costs $50, which is a lot for a purse, but it’s wonderful.

It has a long strap, so I can wear it across my body the way I like to, and it’s small yet big enough for all my electronics. I want I want I want I want it.

Maybe after Bindu sees the vet and the jeep sees the mechanic. *sigh* Poverty sucks.