04.23.2010 - Terrence Marks:

You Say it First has been going through some minor remodeling lately. As you can see, the Twitter feed is back up. There's a bar separating the comic section from the news section. Like most webpage changes, it involved making a lot of adjustments, seeing that they didn't work, and changing them back. (The news/blog is two columns of uncertain and varying length. I'd like to fill that blank space with stuff, but it's a different amount of space every time, and automatically calculating which column would be inaccurate and difficult).

I've also made some adjustments to the RSS feed, so that the news and blog entries will show up separately. There were some issues with the previous system. There are, I'm sure, different issues with the new system, but that's life.

Relatedly, I realize that I don't really have a title for my blog. It's currently "Terrence Says", which was put in as a description (so you don't think it's news). It didn't really need a title until I updated the RSS feed, and had to create a tag for it. I was going to call it "Stupid Stuff", after one of my favorite AE Houseman poems, Terence, this is stupid stuff.

It's a clever reference. For a lapsed highbrow like myself, it's perfect. Except if you've never heard of the poem, it looks really bad. It's like naming your karate school "Marshall Arts". Your friends know that your name is Joe Marshall and it's clever. Everyone else just thinks you can't spell.

So I need to come up with something that doesn't look like I'm calling myself stupid. It's a tough job.