God, I hate Internet Explorer. I really fucking do. I’ve been spending the last few days trying to make Phillybred.com XHTML 1.1 compliant which is not a hard to do, just soooo fucking tedious. I have to go back and edit 520+ entries correcting stupid shit that worked in Wordpress 1.x but not 2.x like line breaks and alternate image tags.

But my major problem has been cross-browser compatibility. With the lack of my sidebar, PhillyBred.com simply craps out in Internet Explorer, especially the footer. I don’t want to alienate 75% of my reasdership by going “Too Cool for IE” but I’m really between a rock and a hard place. And all of this editing is keeping me from posting. God I hate IE.

You know what, fruit cake isn’t all that bad, or maybe that’s the Absolut talking. I hope everyone and theirs has a great holiday season. Be safe, have fun and don’t do any shit I wouldn’t do.

I’d planned on going into the details of my Atlanta trip later this weekend but I had to say something about 16+ hour bus ride that my frat brothers and myself had to endure. To even use the word Hell would be a understatement. It’s more like going through torture, sitting in a small box with sweaty fat man farting and weezing on you while you’re trying to sleep. And once you actually manage to drift off to sleep, somebody is flicking the lights on and off. Everything is rattling, and theres a constant draft, blowing on your neck and did I mention the sweat fat man, farting and weezing on me? Needless to say, if I ever go anywhere in the near future, I will be flying.

I really can’t help myself, I went ahead and upgraded to Wordpress 2 RC which effectively killed have of my plugins. And not even the superfical ones like comment counter but the necessary ones like Bot-Check and phpexec. So with sans functionally and getting spam every hour I felt like a change. Yeah I know I just finished butchering up my Kubrick template a few weeks ago, but as much as I like a minimalist look, all that white looked too BLAND. So here’s a new masthead and a new background. By the way did I mention that I scraped my sidebar?

I still can’t look at the camera but I can still be true to me.

 

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Are suppositories suppose to be bright orange?

Well there was a lot of stuff I wanted to get done this week, one most definitely being a new video cast but with this cold severely kicking my ass, trying to convey something while hacking, sniffling and sneezing wouldn’t be cute, and I got to preserve my sexy. Maybe I should get the video cast done, because I do have some things to share and confess that will definitely “crack the Internet” or maybe I’m just exaggerating again.

Now excuse me, because I gotta go take this horse pill.

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Kelsey Grammer as the X-Man and Avenger Hank ‘The Beast‘ McCoy

PhillyBred.com is losing some girth and slimming down. Kind of like making alterations to a pink Chanel suit, I’ve been tweaking and chopping up Michael Heilemann’s Kurbick template to make it look different but still the same.

So essentially what I’ve done to trim down the look is:

-resized the page so that its 700px instead of 760px

-changed out the masthead

-redid several pages (photo gallery, archives, & about

-added a colophon

-added several plugins for various functionality (Noteworthy & Weighted Categories)

So now hopefully Phillybred.com can finally fit into those nice Ecko jeans hanging in it closet.

There are some things in life that I’m afraid of; spiders, being homeless, my dentist but not HIV/AIDS. Some time after my mom found out about my preferences, we had a lengthy discussion about grandchildren, health issues and my safety. She told that she was afraid for me, afraid to have to bury her only child. That was the one thing you would never be able to handle and made me promise to be smart about the choices I make in life. That was six years ago and I still uphold that promise and get tested every six months (every April and October). For me, the best way to stay safe is to be educated and that’s why I’m not afraid of HIV and AIDS. Not if I can only do the same thing about spiders.