How should we reorganize the site? Do you like it with categories for different families or could we come up with some other way to group ourselves? Perhaps by interests? Maybe something like: kids, animals, hobbies?

FYI, I’m using a new tool that lets me access the software behind this site from my desktop and when I’m off-line (well, that’s not totally true—I can’t access the site when I’m off-line but I can write posts and save them). It’s kind of like an email client that you might have installed on your computer (as opposed to using an online email service like Gmail). The advantage here is that I can access many different blogs from within this one client. So, those of you who might want to write for this site you might like to try this software out.

Obviously we’re having some troubles with the comments section. While I work out the bugs “and get the comments themselves formatted so they don’t look like crap” please use the forum or email me directly. I have added a chat topic where anything goes.

Update: Well, the comments are fixed. Cool little feature—remembers your name and email address so you don’t have to retype each time you comment.

Switch your browser to Firefox

Remember, I was an art major. If the site looks like crap it could be your browser. It might be my bad taste but if something is seriously wrong it’s probably Internet Explorer. Or a variant thereof as used by SBC/Yahoo, Juno or AOL. See the post about Sean for an example of what goes wrong with an old, outdated browser (which Microsoft always is—whenever you think about Microsoft, think large, bumbling, slow, easy to attack, not-too-smart beast that thousands are trying to exploit) and then switch to a better browser.

Something else to think about—old browsers, systems without firewalls or virus protection or operating systems not kept up to date are all vunerable to ATTACK, which can mean anything from a gazillion pop-ups making your surfing annoying and exhausting to stolen credit card numbers and password theft.

You wouldn’t drive the freeways without at least a Humvee, don’t cruise the internet without knowing your system and using a browser you can trust.

Created a place for you all to chat. You’ll have to register first though . . . Click on the link at the top of the page labeled “forum” and then click on “register”, fill out the form and start talking.