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What began as a simple goal of making my blog look better a few weeks ago became a sudden priority last night after being told that I won’t be employed with my current employer after this week essentially.  I need to put a good face forward and since my blog is the first thing that comes up when you Google my name, I decided to put in an all-nighter and get business taken care of.  

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I don’t even know where to begin besides quickly _hoping_ that my job as a web developer will be considerably easier in another 2 to 5 years (once everyone finally gets around to upgrading). Of course this depends upon what Microsoft considers “Super Standards.” For all we know they could still be in “standards mode” but still mess up spacing in padding and margins enough that we’ll still be coding hacks for IE8 just as much as we did for IE7 (which is exponentially less than IE6 was coded/hacked for).

Anyway, I’ll encourage ANYONE who still uses IE to go ahead and try out IE 8 beta 1. Although, if you’re trying a new browser, I’d still recommend Firefox 3 beta 3 before IE 8 any day ;)

Here’s to hoping for an all-major-browsers compliant with standards society!

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Katie is a true geek. She doesn’t like to admit it, and she hasn’t fully adopted the habits of geekdom (note, she still gets ready before she goes out and she loves cute clothes). But she is a geek. And I love her for it.

A few Sundays ago at family dinner Katie gave me a tootsie roll. 99% of the population probably has no clue what the acronym on the wrapper of the tootsie roll meant, but Katie did. And not only did she know what it meant, but she gave it to me because I am her geek. I thought it was adorable and it truly did make my “digits exponential” as I like to say (just as an FYI, that can mean anything, e.g.: my heart jump with joy).

Anyway, here’s a low resolution photo of the tootsie roll before I embraced my inner geek and ate the joyous substance called candy in order to sustain my geeky figure ;)

Ironically, I made a comment on a family member’s blog tonight about the joys of WYSIWYG editors and how it inspired me to manage my own blog forever ago because I couldn’t handle Blogger’s WYSIWYG interface ;)

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It’s been a long time coming, and I knew I couldn’t hold out for forever, but I finally broke down and got myself a decent dedicated server. I’ve done shared VPS and I’ve even done some good ol’ fashion home server management for the past year, but I came across a dedicated server deal I couldn’t resist and took the plunge. Look for (hopefully) better performance and page rendering out of my blog now that I’ve increased caching capabilities and minimized server overhead. Here’s some figures to compare my previous server (Mac Mini on my home network) to the new server (dedicated HiVelocity Server).

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Woot for FedEx overnight! I now hold in my hands a copy of OS X Leopard and it is starting to install in a matter of minutes. Apple’s website still lists another 7 hours and 25 minutes to launch from the time it arrived! WOOT.

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