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My host will be moving my account from PHP4 to PHP5, so just a head’s up: my site may be down for a little bit. (hopefully not long at all)

Update: Move went smoothly and everything seems to be working. Please let me know if you have or see any problems on the site. Thanks!

Taking Humpdays a step further

I’ve been working my way down my various “to do” lists for this site and finally finished something I had meant to do a while back: create separate feed and email subscription options for the Humpday Hilarities. Fueled by Feedburner, it took a little re-coding to get things arranged the way I wanted them, but now everything seems to be in order.

From now on, anyone who wishes to subscribe only to the Humpday Hilarities can do so via RSS or Email. Of course, I welcome everyone to hang around the whole feeds, but understand completely for those who don’t.

All Humpday Hilarities posts (as well as the corresponding tags and category) will display the following invitation:

Did you know you can get these weekly funnies sent directly to your email? Click here and fill out the email subscription link. Mailing frequency is once per week, with the rare exception of extra funnies posted for special occasions.

Your email address will never sold or given out to anyone!

Please let me know if any part of the site looks funny or acts up. And of course, submissions are always welcome. (Read: send me your funnies!)

NeoVizion Silver Award

This arrived last night:

Thank you for submitting for the 2009 Gold Award. We enjoyed reviewing your website.

We are presenting you with the Silver Award. All we ask is if you decide to accept this award please link the award back so others like yourself can submit for the awards.

Your site is listed on our award page with a link.

Thank you from the NEOVIZION, Inc. review department.

Thank you!

Google shares deactivated and deleted

My apologies for the duplicate posts, twits, and other notices. I never could get the kinks worked out for the Google shared items posts. I had tried several plugins, but they all had one thing in common: a simplepie core (which I think was the problem).

I’ve deleted all the posts and removed the plugins. I may look into it again later.

Was a cool idea though …

Award of Elegance

This arrived last night:

Congratulations! I’m honored to present your site with my Award of Elegance.

Thank you for your interest in my awards.
Cheers, Lady Rohan

Thank you, Lady Rohan!

Purrrfect Page Award

I received this in an email this morning:

It is an honor to present you with my Purrrfect Page Award.

Fresca

YAY!

Thank you, Fresca!

Fantasy Fights Diamond Award

New addition to the Awards page:

Congratulations on your win for the Fantasy Fights Diamond Award for 2009. The Fantasy Fights diamond award is a Free service and is presented to those sites whose web design originality and content have achieved the highest levels of excellence. Each year someone/ you must resubmit your site in order to win each year award. All 2009 awards will be removed and ready for the 2010 winners so be sure to sign up each year.

Ladie Mikala

Thank you, Ladie Mikala!

Pre-load images with CSS

Most anyone who’s been messing around with webpages and HTML over the past few years I’m sure is familiar with the concept of pre-loading images. If you have a rollover effect (for instance, mouseover effects on a menu bar), it makes good sense to pre-load your images so that the effect shows up immediately when your visitor moves their cursor over the image/object. For a long time, the most popular way to accomplish this was by adding javascript to your HEAD section and an onload snippet to your BODY tag.

There is a much easier way to do this with CSS. I had ran across this a long time ago, but never bookmarked the link.

Bad designer, BAD!

Luckily, I ran across it again recently and thought I’d post it here in case anyone else was interested in how to do this.

In your stylesheet, add the following:

.hiddenpic {display:none;}

Then add your image that you want pre-loaded just following the </HEAD> tag. For example:

<img src="/images/navhover.gif" alt="" class="hiddenPic" />

OR, you could put several images inside a DIV:

<div class="hiddenPic"><img src="/images/hover1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/hover2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/hover3.gif" alt="" /></div>

Just keep in mind that these images will load before you page does, so don’t overdo it with HUGE images!

They like me, they really like me!

My day started off pretty crappy. I didn’t hear the alarm, so I overslept. Then I finally get it together, get ready, and hop into my car to leave — only, it won’t start.

Great … what a way to start the week.

I go wake Jim up (God love him for putting up with me!) and start pacing because the car parts store wasn’t open yet, I was going to be way late for work, and I just knew that it was not going to be something as simple as a dead battery … it’s probably something catastrophic, or expensive, like the alternator, etc.

Two hours (and a hundred bucks) later, I have a brand new battery and am told that my car’s alternator is fine. Yay. I finally make it to work just in time to discuss lunch.

The day has gotten better as it’s gone on, though … I was reading through my email and received the following:

Congratulations you have won the “World Web Award of Excellence” for web site design, creativity, and ease of navigation. Keep up the good work. You have obviously worked very hard investing your time, and skills into making a great web site.

Regards,
Art Space 2000 Awards Department

Very cool.

Though it’s now occurred to me, I have no place to display my accolades. I guess I’ll just have to create something and add it to the sidebar!

YAY — something to keep me busy for the rest of the day!

Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice and Merry Yule, y’all!

 

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

– Luke 2:8-20 NIV

Christmas comes early for some …

I received an email today from Soldiers’ Angels notifying me that the infantry where two of my soldiers are has a “mailstop.” This means only one thing …

THEY ARE COMING HOME!!!!

I know their families have got to be so excited!

God bless you, Casey and Steven. Wherever you are and wherever you’re headed, I wish you a safe trip.

Thank You!

Whenever I’m out and about and see a soldier or veteran, I always go up to them and thank them for their service and hand them a small Soldiers’ Angels card. Something Jessie said a while back sticks in the back of my mind every time I meet one … she said, “‘Thank you’ doesn’t seem like enough.”

I know what she means. For such a small phrase and gesture, I hope I’m able to make a big impact on that person, or the people around them. And I hope I come across as truly grateful.

To all troops, veterans, and their families: you have my thanks, gratitude, and support. May God bless you, and those who love and support you!

We’re outta here!

Welp, I’m finishing up wrapping tonight and we’ll pack up the car early tomorrow to head out of town for a bit.

My overnight bag’s packed tighter than a Ju Ju Be, LOL!

Hopefully I’ll have some goodies to share when I get back.

I hope everyone has a safe and very Merry Christmas!

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