After much inspiration of the Mountain Dew incited variety, a few hours of gimping, and a night of retrofitting code (read: ugly hack upon ugly hack), the new cover page is online. Some may love it. Others may hate it. I personally think it's pretty slick. And if you're still a stone age Netscape 4.x user, you probably don't even know what any of this fuss is about.

(Oh, and btw, for those who always surf in from the headlines on other sites, this is the title page. But if you never saw it before the change, you probably wouldn't know the difference anyway.) IMO, the old one had been getting pretty stale and lame, especially the non-exciting intro texts.

Oh, and if the new welcome blurb sounds vaguely familiar to long long long timers, there is indeed a reason for that. Sometimes, history does repeat itself

Kind of like Michael Jackson. After years of nothing save bits of ridicule and pedophile jokes, the media is bringing him back as the greatest being ever to grace the annals of pop culture. Oh, the things one can learn through cable tv. I can see that my cultural experience has been greatly enriched already.

Yesterday, on a whim, I hooked my gameboy up to the dolby decoder, and played some F-Zero. Ah, the power of hearing the clinkety-clink-clink music piped through surround sound at 100 watts per channel. I would add that the lighting in my apartment has proven most conducive to good play. As anyone who has bought a GBA would tell you, it's a great little system except for the one weakness of lighting troubles.

Now I just have to figure out a way to convince myself that buying a GameCube in the not-too-far-future would be a fiscally responsible decision. Fiscal responsibility. Yep, that's me.

If this rambling is incoherent, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense, it's probably because it's being typed just short of 6 in the morning. Now that my vacation is almost over, I have reverted to an almost fully nocturnal schedule. The challenge ahead is to get my sleep patterns shockstarted back into something conducive to an 8-5 job by Wednesday morning.

Yes, I'd say this has been a very brain frying, code cooking, couch potatoing, apartment lounging vacation. Now that my new intro page is happily running on rage, I'm going to sleep.