Smile, Simple, Stupid

I was trying to design an elaborate background for the last few hours, with every effort invested coming back unsatisfactory, when I remembered the aforementioned "three S's". Remembering that every other blog I go to on a regular basic also has a simple background, I dumped my previous efforts and came up with the black, gray and blue scheme you see in front of you presently. Not the most original scheme out there but at least it won't make you cry blood.

Soon I should begin blogging in earnest (barring the recent Portland post, of course). WE ARE GONNA FEEL THE WORKRATE.

Plus ça change...

The title refers to the recent font change which (depending on your browser) you may or may not have noticed. I used @font-face CSS scripting; it temporarily overrides the original font used by Blogspot. So far it seems to work fine for IE 8 and Opera 11, and given compatibility research I've done this should mean that if you are using IE 4-8, Opera 10.5 [EDIT: or later], or recent versions of Chrome and Safari, you should be seeing the new font.

I have IE9 on another machine, and the font is NOT loading there. So IE9 and (maybe) Firefox might not be loading the new font. I will fix it for IE9, considering that pretty much everyone uses Internet Explorer and sooner or later IE9 or its successors will have a large adoption rate.

But anyway, a large piece of the blog's future style is now integrated and operational. Now I just have to find a decent background picture and we are all set for prime time.