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I felt much better today!  Still some sinus pressure (do I sound like an advertisement for cold medicine?), but no real problems working.  The one thing I hate about being sick is that it usually affects my ability to be productive with my mind.  This little cold didn't affect me that way at all.  Yay!  Today I was amazingly productive.  I worked at home on the group's web presence (gawd knows my pitiful computer at work can't do it) and put together the concept as well as the document-wide CSS (why document-wide instead of external?  Because I have no idea how -- or if -- the thing will be implemented, so I figured I would make it as simple as possible).   Interestingly, it looks a WHOLE lot like my personal page.  

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Speaking of my personal page, it got a new addition this evening, Reductio Ad Absurdum, my weblog.  It is powered by Blogger, which means I can easily update the thing on the fly from any place that has an internet browser.  This is the only way I could conceivably maintain a weblog, since any given day I could be working from home, the office, housesitting for someone, tripping off somewhere on business, etc.  It took much longer to get it up and running than I anticipated because it is so powerful in terms of text formatting.  I used style sheets to control the formatting, and once again found that Netscape is somewhat finicky on even simple matters.  

I still have to put together a set of frames devoted specifically to Reductio Ad Absurdum, much as I've done with the journal.  I just ran out of time, but that should come on Thursday night.  The name Reductio Ad Absurdum is familiar to some of my friends, as it marks the second time I've stolen that name for a similar endeavor.  It comes from the back page of the old Claremont Review of Books from the 1980s, which was an irreverent look at the news.  The first time I borrowed the name and concept was on the back page of The Bear Review, the radical libertarian/conservative student publication I started in grad school in Springfield, Missouri, and it was self-consciously a copy of what the Claremonsters had done.  This iteration will be similar, but I will highlight the exceptional along with the good.  The title probably describes my commentary more than the content itself!

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I've discovered that I want to go back through and use style sheets to control formatting more precisely throughout the website.  This tends to be how I do things -- work out a major redesign, and THEN figure out something I want to do differently!  Oh well.  As long as I'm always improving something -- whether it's personal, website, whatever -- then I figure I'm ahead of at least 90% of the world.