Not that it's really an or thing. It's actually not fully ready, for a few reasons. But it's close enough to run with, I suppose. I'll get the rest of the site updated as time allows.

Things have been busier than usual here. Which is not to say that much of anything is really getting accomplished; it's just that slacking in general is taking more time these days. Mostly I blame the novel, which sounds better than admitting that I've been spending thirty-six hours at a time trying to get morons to obey my commands in Sims2, getting far too upset about it, and wandering off to join in Hunter's M*A*S*Hathon [someone clued her in to NetFlix.com; at the moment, her whole queue is pretty much every episode released to date] before passing out--usually with a headache.

Which therefore means that I still haven't managed to go off and see Land of the Dead yet. I'm starting to think that I won't be seeing it until NetFlix.com can send it out. Not that I'd settle for that, of course; for all the idiotic zombiefilms I've bothered to buy outright, suck unseen, this isn't a film I'm going to back out of purchasing on or before its release date.

Damnit. Note to Self: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahabi. And an Important Safey Tip: AltTabbing out of Sims2 after the computer's been running for a couple of weeks is dangerous. Especially when trying to keep a URL required for researching something for the novel in the clipboard. Now it's saved on the server. Whee.

That's my new excuse for the novel. Research. To date, every novel I've written is either fully about things I already knew about, or was purely manufactured. Nonfiction sucks. Even when it's about a zombie plague set in an alternate future. If that makes any sense.

Okay. The new version. And new options.

One new option is sort of an old option, in which the latest What's New [currently this one] has a link at the bottom to the current penultimate one, which eventually becomes the current antipenultimate one, before simply becoming old. In this version, though, the Old News link is simply Previous. Also, to date, it doesn't actually work.

What does work is the calendar, with clickable dates, in the upper left. Better still is the What's New link in the upper right. Better still than everything else, in a sense, is the option to Search the Sucker, also in the upper left, just above the calendar. In any event, things can be found. Which is more than I can say for the practise of writing these things into the messageboard. Though that can also be searched, I suppose.

Meanwhile, one project I'm slowly working on is restoring the old What's News within this blogue system. That's actually not easy to do, since the strange little lite version of WordPerfect1989 behind the scenes of this blogue automatically treats all returns as linebreaks in the end. Meaning that, in order to add in the old hpertext bits, I've got to go through and remove all unwanted breaks, ignored though they were in WordPad, or things will look really bad in here. With a couple hundred of them to remaster this way, it'll be a while before they're all back online.

Naturally, for whatever dumb reason, the available backfiles only date back to 2002. Before that, if memory serves, I was just saving new What's News over the standing main.html without bothering to hang onto the old ones for anything. All things considered, that might be just as well; but it is kinda neat to be able to search through the last three years' of stuff from gremlin.net. Or, it probably will be, once it's all moved into this blogue.

Some of the subsites--especially those with their own domains pointing to them--probably won't be pulled into this. Some, though, might. Apart from the /?p=x format of each bloguepost, there are also hardlinked subsites as an option here; some of the ActiveServer hypertext subsites linked from the left could be copied into this thing, just to simplify the whole mess. And, of course, new subsites can be added in here the same way. Faster and more uniform and more searchable. Science marches on.

And that, I think, is approximately everything worth mentioning at the moment. The moment being technically a few hours before July begins. Except: one other fun characteristic of this system is that it categorises things by dates, meaning that, in the event that I have something else to mention [notice I didn't bother saying worth mentioning that time] I can thump it in anytime before midnight GMT and it'll be added as a simple amendment to the day's What's New. Kinda like adding in a supplemental edit, but without actually editing anything first.

I've been playing Sims2 since Wednesday. Nevermind.

More later....