Flight 515

Remember the last time I had a blog, way back in 2006?¹ In my final post, I wrote the following:

It has struck again, and I am therefore working on version 13 of the site, which I’m hoping will suck less than the last twelve. The biggest changes will probably be (a) the introduction of Real Colors™, which will supplant the previous scheme of White and Black and Gray, Oh My!®, and (b) the melting-down of Flaming Famine, which is so far past its prime that it has prominent wrinkles, into souvenir coins that read I visited the forum and all I got was this lousy copper disk.

Of course, the best-laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft agley — my server’s hard drive went south not a month afterward,² perhaps as retribution for forcing it to put up with the C-INTERCAL compiler.

I do keep my promises, though, and so I am proud to announce, after only twenty-seven months, three new designs that could have themselves been legitimately referred to as version 13 if I hadn’t called them version 12.99x, and another site name change, that version 13 of the site is finally here, complete with Real Colors™!³ You’ll notice that I was probably listening to R.E.M.’s Orange Crush a few too many times when I started making this design, but that’s really par for the course.

Note that I haven’t tested this design in Internet Explorer at all, so the 11% of you visitors who actually use it might get swallowed by a black hole while browsing the site.

That’s all for now — if my recent track record is anything to go by, I’ll be back with an update within the next year or so. See you then! :)⁴