Observant users may notice a slight graphical change in the fourhman.com header. I fixed a sizing problem that has lurked around since this site's debut. And I added a drop shadow to the upper menu bar. All this work came about because I'm trying to integrate the entire video game review system into Movable Type... and it's a mess of special tags and templating to make that happen. So when I sat down to start Task A, I naturally ended up doing Task B so the header graphics would line up. I always seem to do that. It's some kind of motivation-direction problem.
Here's an internet question: When (and why) did everybody decide to create a portal site? I'm guessing this is a relic of the days when Yahoo's stock was 250+ and everybody thought they could get rich by creating portals.
Man #1: "Our business needs to get online. Stevens, tell me who's successful right now, and we'll do whatever they're doing."
Man # 2 (thinking): "Well, Yahoo's stock is somewhere around one million. And Pets.com has a funny sock dog commercial during the Super Bowl."
Man #1 (chastising): "We're not into puppets, Stevens. We're a serious brick-and-mortar business that needs some way to drive the entire population of internet users into our location. What's Yahoo do that makes them so great?"
Man #2: "They're a portal, sir. All they do is list websites so users can search them and find what they're interested in. Or at least find a 45% match."
Man #1 (confidently): "Then that's what we do, Stevens. Start working on that list of websites right away. And give extra shares to all our employees instead of raises. They'll be thanking me later."
If you look at that Yahoo search for "stocdred's dredpage," you'll see tons of listings of portal sites, most still linking to me at the old non-functioning AOL URL. And every one has the exact same description for DredPage, which is something I entered into Yahoo over five years ago. So if you're here looking for Duke Nukem maps and OverPower decks, you're in the right place! Welcome to 1997.
PS: Happy eleventy-first birthday, professor.
