Time does not wait for tiny dog

Hmmm... years ago, I looked into Blogger, and at the time could make no sense of how to use it to publish my site without being saddled with the ugly centered-content-column w/ generic banner page template used by tens of thousands of design-challenged, rambling bloggers o'er the globe. Go to any blog you can possibly think of if you don't know what I am talking about, and you will see it on display. I have literally never once in my life seen a blog that doesn't use some form of it although it is the modern-day aesthetic equivalent of beveled buttons and animated gifs.

I therefore threw in the towel and continued to hand-code page templates and peck around in HTML as I was taught to do while a low-level code monkey at a three-person start up company on a semi-paved lakeside road in the sticks of Bellingham WA in the late 90's. But I am really starting to feel like a clown at this point, being that my site offers no more dynamism than my own updated verbiage. Today's web site clearly demands some type of picture gallery or feed, or whatever kids are calling all of this automatic stuff these days, and time does not wait for tiny dog. It's time to upgrade.

So here it is 2005 and I gave it another random shot today while sitting in the Flip Side cafe, an underrated purveyor of caffeinated beverages, free wi-fi and live music located in the yuppie wine tasting mecca of Woodinville, WA. Seems that it is actually easy to modify Blogger page templates and thus I have no more excuses to not go in the direction of the lemmings and jump off this newfangled cliff of trackbacks and comment spam. So I may convert the site. Stand by.