Might have some potential news, short enough that I already posted it at twitter.com: I'm photoshopping out a site revision at the moment, since the basic layout here hasn't changed in about three years. The mockup's large enough that, while it would probably fit on most screens, however ironically it wouldn't quite fit into the new version, which this entry should eventually be skinned by. So click on it for a fullsized shot.

Of course, the mockup currently sucks pretty hard. And it's mostly just notes for me personally to make sense of. If it matters to anyone, the row of letters in the upper right stand for twitter, tumblr, MySpace, wastedinc, gotards, NotS, the messageboard, and EMail. Not necessarily in that order. And I might drop a couple and add a couple I haven't thought of yet.

And, just to be retarded, I just clicked Pubilsh instead of Preview. So now I have to be all rapid about finishing this up, since people can see it. The post, not the mockup; though: that too.

The gremlin.net logo in the upper left HREFs back to main; that's probably a given. Beneath that will be a realtime feed from twitter.com [I've got twitter.com/grempire, but, really, I only ever use @wastedinc, since it's got a few followers already] next to an equally realtime feed from tumblr.com; I haven't fully worked out a purpose for tumblr.com yet, except for the part where I can call them on my mobilephone and post audio after a delay of about half a second—something I've been hoping for since the eighties or so, and likely a paradigmatic shift in the evolution of gotards.com.

Next, obvously, is the content. What you're reading now. In whatever version of the encapsulating skin you're also seeing. Technically, that's the boring part, at least insofar as the whole update thing is concerned.

And, on the right, the AdSense thing, where I get paid for bothering to do all this. Beneath that, not yet on the mockup, will be arguably less important links, and probably links redundant to the graphical links in the upper right. Just because I want links to things like coffeechick.com and things, but A) I've run out of room and B) they lack simple graphical representations.

Technically, coffeechick.com's got Hunter's little coffeethulhu thing. But still.

And...that's about what I've worked out for 2010 so far. There might be more [there might be less] once it's all put together and uploaded and installed and bugtested.

In other news: my bank account expired. At some point. If you've been here for a seriously long time, you probably remember those idiots. They're the ones who accused me of fraud—up to and including calling in the cops and trying [and laughably failing] to have me arrested for laundering nickels [seriously] when I connected PayPal.com to the thing. Because, to this day, PayPal.com confirm accounts by throwing a pair of deposits, each ranging from one to ninety-nine cents, at the account you claim to have. This bank, if you can credibly call it that, had never heard of this PayPal.com thing, and actually called the police to report that I was using it to launder something like seventeen cents and four cents, at the same time!!!1

Score One for the meaningless morons preventing me from funding international terrorism with damned near half the price of a fucking newspaper; my cohorts, one assumes, are making up the other twenty-nine cents and then—oh yes—AlQaeda shall have a copy of the PostNews Classifieds. Bow down before us. Or else we'll find out about CraigsList.org.

Anyway....

So, that was all ten years ago. Now, the same morons incapable of guessing what PayPal.com was apparently lied to me about hiding no fees, or something. Turns out an account I've just left sitting there all this time managed to evaporate, nickling and diming itself down to zilch. Then, one day, PayPal.com pinged [pung?] the account to make sure I still existed and/or wasn't buying newspapers for terrorists, discovered that it wasn't there anymore, and demoted my account to Unverified. Worse, they therefore declined to send me a new PayPal.com debitcard when my currentish one expired. So, as of this instant, I've got money hanging out in PayPal.com making something like 0.006%APR in a MoneyMarket [my terrorists are so gonna buy a TootsieRoll in a few years] and doing nothing more, because the funds are functionally frozen until I get all reverified.

The good news is that I wandered over to USBank [mostly because that's what Hunter's using] and threw together a boring account for fifty bucks I bummed from Hunter. Well: sixty, since the ATM didn't have anything but twenties. That took about five minutes. Answer a couple control questions; sign here; optionally memorise a 9digit routing number and a 12digit account number [being me, I memorised them...meaning really that I looked at them and burned them into my brain]; go away. So that's handled.

The bad news is that, while I'm awaiting my new USBank debitcard, and therefore my account PIN, everything's still the hell frozen. Meaning that I couldn't reconfirm anything at PayPal.com instantly. So now I get to wait until maybe Wednesday for PayPal.com to buy the terrorists a newspaper, plus however long it takes—a couple weeks, maybe—to get the card and the PIN [reportedly mailed here separately...duh], to get into the account through usbank.com to see how good a newspaper the terrorists can have, to tell PayPal.com which two numbers from a field of ten thousand to one against I got, to reverify that account, to even begin to move any money around. Plus however long it further takes for them to mail me a new PayPal.com debitcard, returning USBank to a purely optional fallback.

Meanwhile: I'm kinda broke. Which is just cool. Whee.

Not quite literally soupkitchenlevel broke, of course. But everything's kinda borrowed time for probably the rest of the year. Meaning everything's about creditcards until I get paid. Which in its way is kinda funny, since this is mostly about things like zazzle.com sending me cash I can't touch for shirts; the thing with the books is every three months already, so I should kinda be used to this.

Still: suck.

Okay. So, I'm gonna go publish the new parts now. And then see if there are any goofy little typoes.

More later....

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