Borders's Help
Do I look like the sort of person that works at a book store? I didn't think that I did until I was approached by several people at Borders looking for help - DVDs are upstairs, at the back of the store. Only after I helped out the first people did I realize that I wasn't obligated to help any of them. I was helping these strangers because I am just that great. I told the third one that I didn't work there and that I wasn't going to help him. Jamie tells that I should aim to have neutral karma.
I'm to go to Kalamazoo tomorrow to attend Jamie's birthday party. I've gotten to actually like the drive to Kalamazoo. It's just long enough to really be a drive, but not so long that you start thinking of ways to kill yourself. Just the point when you no longer want to be in the car, you arrive in Kalamazoo.
I have kept working on the new look for this site. The font problem I had has been licked. sIFR is pretty slick, though it does have a few issues. The docs suck. They basically tell you to twiddle the example till it works for you. In your search for things that do not belong in technical documentation, let the concept of twiddling be a red flag. I was having all sorts of issues with a line break in the middle of my headline, and while I did fix it, I have no idea how I fixed it. I just played with the flash movie until it worked properly. The wiki site they have for additional documentation isn't up, which greatly reduces its usefulness.
I still haven't wrapped my head around the new navigation. I know for certain that the sidebar is going to go away, but I have no idea what to replace it with. I want to have my blogroll and quickies somewhere - more thought is obviously needed.