Boojum

Alan, I just visited your site, and your links page still seems to be down. I gather you're working on another update. Assuming your offer still stands, however, please do add my site: http://www.squort.com. In turn, if you wish, I will add tinywizard.com to my own Nonpolitical Sites page.

I recently received an e-mail soliciting my subscription to a search-engine submission service. Attached was a partial screen shot of my site (see attached file). As you will note, the site appears to be "broken": The sixth navigation tab (Downloads) atop the banner appears not in its proper post on the far right, but on a second tier, by itself, on the left. Also, the top portion of the menu at left does not appear at all. What I am wondering is under what circumstances this development arises. I have so far been unable to reproduce the problem. I have tried using various resolutions and text sizes, and I have tested three separate browsers ... all without reproducing the problem. It is my hope that others (especially those using Windows or Linux) can view my site and see if the problems described appear.

I too am not a musician, but have another link exchange to propose. Among my initiatives, I have created a Progressive/Anti-Bush Sites section in my site. If, therefore, anyone here operates a site or blog meeting that description, please communicate with me and I will very probably add you to the section. Also, in conjunction with the above, I am initiating a Trans-Spectral Alliance. So, anyone who operates an otherwise conservative site/blog which opposes the current administration or its policies is also invited to exchange links.

Critter.

Clog. (Sort of a cross between clouds and fog; AKA the weather where I am right now.)

Annie, Please don't take this the wrong way, but I think you need to make a decision: Your preeminent concern is either privacy, in which case you are best advised not to link to your site from this forum; or it is publicity and pagerank, in which case you should take pride in the response you are getting. It seems, ultimately, a bit disingenuous to create over 200 links to your site and then complain when people and robots actually follow them.

18.437%--Geek. I guess I just didn't try hard enough. (Funny: I would have thought not only being a chess master but actually teaching the game would more than qualify me as a super-geek or better.)

Snob.

All true. That's why I did add a site map to the new version. It will help both spiders and actual visitors find all my pages ... well, except for the "secret" page. (By the way, has anyone here found that yet?)

Rumsfeldian monologue.

To congeal is to solidify or freeze; I think you mean evaporate.

Warthog.

Vermont.

Eternity.

Apologies to Ray Bradbury might be more apropos.

Thank you, Jim. I think, however, that to be on the safe side I will add a text site map link to my index page.

I have. It's one of the Javascript buttons.

Jim, Regarding those Javascripts, a concern: All but one Javascript (per page) is used as part of a menu button or navigation tab—now all further enclosed in a php include file. (Although I also do include a non-Javascript menu, also in a php include file, that will appear only to visitors who do not have Javascript enabled.) So, have I effectively prevented Google et al. from indexing my site? Or can they read one or another, if not both, of those menus anyway? Obviously, I do want search engines to be able to follow my internal links, but including additional plain-text links in addition to the existing rollover menu would clutter my site. Similarly, I'm not sure if it is practical, or indeed possible, for me to move the rollover scripts to outside files. Please advise.

You can call it paranoia. I call it a healthy skepticism about the uses and potential abuses of technology whose development has outpaced our species' moral growth. Observe, if you will, the efforts in the Pentagon. The controversial Adm. John Poindexter may no longer be in charge, and the name may have been slightly changed, but the Total Information Awareness program is alive and well. Observe the lobbying in Congress, where industry has blocked attempt after attempt at protecting consumers' privacy. As for Rob's second point: It is well taken. Let's all remember to vote in November for candidates who will fight for us and not allow themselves to succumb to the blandishments of big business.

Lion. (It's time to beard the lion in his den!)

Robert, You should come visit my new site (coming soon). Everything that's now in my Nation & World subdomain, along with many new items created especially for the latter, will appear in SolidarityAlliance.com. From some of your observations touching on the growing (and irrefragably Orwellian if not Huxleyesque) tendency in today's America to quell dissent with conditioned apathy and dismissal if not outright malevolence, I think you will find the material of interest. Much has been written of "the banality of evil." To that charge I would add lack of imagination: Much of this administration really does seem to have gotten all of its ideas straight from Josef Goebbels, Hermann Goring and George Orwell.

I just received the account-information e-mail a few minutes ago. Thank you, Michelle, for taking the time to reply and set my mind at ease. Rock Sign

I did have it set to the correct time zone, but had not been aware that I needed manually to check a modifier box to acknowledge daylight-savings time. Thanks for the reminder.

Excellent, Jim. You've zeroed in quite nicely on the pervasive invasiveness of interminable corporate promotion and "marketing studies" based on information on each and all of us that we would often be amazed and furious to find in their possession. As for the Green Day song: lovely lyrics, but not particularly applicable here. Albert Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." I think each begets the other. (In this case, the more you know, the more horrific scenarios you can imagine ... and the more easily.)

Two observations: 1) I note from the "Posted on ..." times for my post and Rob's reply above that they are shown as "5:01 AM" and "5:21 AM," respectively. I wish to point out that my reply was posted from my computer at 6:01 a.m., PDT. I note this merely for documentary purposes. 2) I have followed Rob's advice. I opened a help-desk ticket at 6:29 a.m., PDT, to which I have as yet seen no reply. You must be aware that high performance logically yields high expectations, so you can only blame the general excellence of TCH's service for any apparent impatience you may perceive on customers' part. Incidentally, two posts ago, I lauded TCH's superlative performance, service and ethics. Please don't belie my praise.