Practicalmadness

1. You have come a long way, eighteen months since you last felt comfortable with your website, to discover what you already knew: that 12-pixel Verdana really is the best body text for your purposes.

2. And white text on black hurts one's eyes so much less than the alternative.

3. And black text on a cream-colored background? Might as well be gray on gray, or in Sanskrit.

4. Your site is slighter than you ever suspected since you stopped covering politics, movies, society, or any of the dozens of topics Practical had pages on before the weblog thing.

5. Weeks later, you still like the spaghetti boy, even if you now realize that you ripped off the faded stripes motif from Hivelogic.

6. Okay, you can have the rough-edged background. Or the green stripes. But not both.

7. Those old movie reviews really blew. Sadly, the current movies blow, even if your reviewing style has made a quantum leap. So your options are to find a thousand non-cliched, non-dismissive words about The Hulk or to figure out how to pose as a rock critic.

8. While a lovely idea, you now realize that Textile is not appropriate for every situation.

9. You really should have checked out Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots much sooner.

10. You congratulate Family Cat B on the birth of her kittens, while scolding Family Cat A for deflowering Family Cat B.