i haven’t blogged in over a week.

over that period of time, the hits to my site have skyrocketed and the number of people subscribing to my rss feed have nearly doubled.

i think there’s a message being sent.

so i decided to change the look of the site a bit, as you can see.

it’s all very web 2.0-ish, i admit. but those are some design principles i can agree with.

i’m proud that my site has always been clean, direct, and fast-loading. now it’s even more so.

with bigger fonts too.
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probably not going to be much activity here for the next few days, what with the holidays and all.

in the meantime, if you google jamie howard, i am no longer number one. i am number two, behind some swimming machine (with apologies to kurt vonnegut).

here is the number one jamie howard.

now if, swimming machine jamie howard, you (along with my other fifteen readers) would kindly link back to the queer jamie howard, i can perhaps regain my rightful number one google ranking.

not that i care or anything.

update: i’m now number three. jamie howard the professional wrestler, who has about 36 aliases, is now number one on google with his imdb page with its lousy wrestlemania “movie” credits. and jamie howard the swimming machine is number two. come on people.

not that i care or anything.

i guess it was the widget. or maybe redoing the html and taking away the frames.

but i’m now the number one jamie howard in google. both without quotes around my name and with quotes around my name.

just a week ago i was number eight without quotes, and three pages back with quotes around my name. who knew?

it’s not much of an achievement. in fact it’s no achievement at all. and i’m still ambivalent about it, although it must mean something to me because i check for it now and then.

i’m happy, i think.

i spent time during the last few days redoing the code for my site, to get rid of the frame-based navigation that was cutting edge in 1998, but now not so much. i especially thought that search engines would be able to find my site better, because with the new system of div tags, each page’s address shows in the address bar. before, it always just said “queerspace.com” no matter what page you were on.

well, i got my wish. if you google my name, i’m now the eighth most popular “jamie howard”, right behind the wrestler and the guy at christiangays.com.
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first, a quick note: i’m glad i don’t live in new orleans, and i’m also glad i’ve been there, because it surely and sadly will never be the same. definitely keep those people in your thoughts–i am. the hurricane was so much worse there than the ones i went through in florida, mainly because i think there are far more impoverished people in the area to start with, and they didn’t have a means of escape.

now, some business. queerspace.com is under construction.
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i converted my greymatter blog to php.

i have no idea what that means, or what effect it has, or how things are different.

or why i even did it in the first place, except that i had a few spare moments at work and gave it a try. but i did, and now my site is php, instead of html, and everything works just as it did before.

so i can now say my site is more better, except that i will be using poor grammar if i do so.
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well, after long last, i am master of my domain. name.

not in the seinfeld sense. i’ve never been master of my domain in that sense for longer than a day or two.

i mean that i’m now the proud owner of jamiehoward dot com. typed out that way to hopefully fool the spammers.
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