Okay. Now I ask you. All of you people out there who have jobs. Do you know how your firm’s name is spelled? Do you know whether or not there is a comma between the firm’s actual name and its corporate designation (e.g., L.L.P., Inc., P.C., Ltd.)? Some secretaries where I work apparently do not. (There IS NO COMMA in our firm’s name, should you be wondering.) I just finished correcting a motion that had our firm name in four different places. At least I’ll give her credit. She was consistent. Sometimes, that’s not enough, though. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then consistency is the signpost along the way. But it’s not like this information is not disseminated throughout the firm. The firm’s name is displayed everywhere in this office. It’s on the letterhead. It’s in brass letters ten inches high on the wall of every one of our reception areas (we have several floors). It’s on the paycheck that I am sure she got today, just like I did. Hell, it’s even on her damn coffee cup!!! Sheesh. Must find wall. Need to bang head.

Foung in my inbox: TELEPHONE POLES There was a Kentucky phone company that was going to hire one team of telephone pole installers, and the boss had to choose between a team of two rednecks and a team of two northern guys. So the boss met with both teams and said: “Here’s what we’ll do. Each team will be installing poles out on the new road for a day. The team that installs the most phone poles gets the job.” Both teams headed right out. At end of the shift, Pat and Mike, the northern guys, came back and the boss asked them how many they had installed. They said that it was tough going, but they’d put in twelve. Forty-five minutes later, Bubba and Darrel, the redneck guys came back and they were totally exhausted. The boss asked, “Well, how many poles did you guys install?” Bubba, the team leader wiped his brow and sighed, “Darrel and me, we got three in.” The boss gasped, “Three? Those two northern guys put in twelve!” “Yeah,” said Bubba, “but you should see how much they left stickin’ out of the ground!”

I’m fiddling with my comment box templates right now so beware! Should have it fixed in a jiff.

Yep, I’ve decided to offer webhosting at my web design site. There are a limited number of packages available so grab one while you can. Don’t have a domain? If you’ve got a blog, that’s no problem. You can have a subdomain and a blog URL of YOURNAME.blogpower.net. Lots of great perks are offered with these packages, including MySQL, FTP, CGI access, Fantastico Installer and more!

My ownership of this domain jonielectric.com will expire on August 6, 2003. I have serious doubts about whether I will renew it. I want to concentrate on building my web design business and do other things. But I still want to blog occasionally. You know, being addicted to domains as I am (I have 13 right now. Don’t ask!), I had snapped up jonimueller.com shortly after purchasing jonielectric.com. I use jonimueller.com, as you may know, to house my growing gallery of wallpaper and other images. There’s plenty of room there. And in fact, I just redesigned the site, so go take a look. Let me know what you think. What will probably end up happening is that I’ll just create a subdomain at jonimueller.com called blog so that you can reach me by typing blog.jonimueller.com. Pretty straightforward, eh? Just don’t say you weren’t warned. I’ll probably set up the subdomain in the next few weeks and get this domain pointed there. So once it dies, you should have had plenty of time to adjust your bookmarks. Goodnight everyone.

Tonight I had to send someone a reminder e-mail. A reminder to return a DVD (Forrest Gump) that she’d had since before she left on vacation (June 1). I didn’t get around to asking until the middle of last week. And while I was at it, I reminded her at that time that she still also had my VHS tape, The Three Lives of Thomasina, which is a bit harder to come by. She’s had that since last summer. Oh, and what if the person who has your stuff is your boss? Well, I’ll certainly know what to do next time I’m asked. I’ll just say No!

I haven’t been brave enough thus far to plunk down the ten dollar “fee” for viewing this online exhibition by Aureia Harvey and Michael Samyn of Entropy8Zuper.org. The rest of the site is odd and disconcerting. But something compels me to keep clicking. I found this site through a book I’m reading, Fresh Styles for Web Designers, in which Harvey’s original web site, Entropy8.com, was featured. The book credits Harvey with creating the web style known as Gothic Organic.

I’ve been working on a new template for you to download. It’s a bright poppy. The template uses the technique of a floating image at the lower righthand side of the screen. Let me know if you encounter any problems using it. The template is NOT coded for any particular blog tool, but I did include the three MT comment templates (listing, preview and error) and the trackback template because they are structured a bit differently than the ones “out of the box.” Non-MT users feel free to ignore them. Here are the screenshots showing the top half, and the bottom half with the floating image: Read more .. »

Don’t know what’s wrong with the damn thing. FTP timed out a couple of times, finally got on. It’s as slow as molasses in winter. A couple of times I logged in to MT and was met with a “Page Not Found” error. I WAS going to brag about the new linkware template I created in honor of summer. And I’m glad I’ve got more than one web site with more than one web host. Because who knows if you’ll even be able to get to it. I did have enough sense to go into PHPAdmin and back up the database to a text file.

If Elton John had been born a genuine Jawja cracker, perhaps he’d have turned out some great bluegrass tunes that sound like this: Your Song, 4.69MB mp3 Grabbed this from alt.binaries.mp3s.bluegrass. Among the other EJ songs covered were: Daniel Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Bennie and the Jets Island Girl Sorry Seems to Be The Hardest Word Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds Someone Saved My Life Tonight Artists featured on the CD include: David West (guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, 5 string banjo, dobro, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, bass, tambourine, percussion) Mark Thornton Pat McGrath Pat Milliken Tom Corbert Mike Mullins Bryan Sutton (guitar) Bob Warren (drums, percussion) Enjoy!