Welcome folks!

I allowed the default original post to stick. OK, this is a WP theme I downloaded and then uploaded (all this downloading and uploading! The most poignant entry in the Oxford English Dictionary of Quotations is a suicide note filed under “Anon” it simply says “All this buttoning and unbuttoning” and I know where you were coming from friend because trying to create the sort of look for the blog I wanted with hosting at wordpress.com was the most frustrating experience of my entire life. Hell, you can rant at the world via Blogger from a standing start in 5 minutes flat as long as you don’t want it to look cool. I have the gfx ready to rumble and I’ll tweak the rest of the CSS (I only selected this theme for the layout - the rest will be all my own invention!)

Unfortunately, in a perverse effort to conserve bandwidth, the author of this theme constructed the PHP and CSS without standard formatting. I mean nada spaces beyond what is absolutely syntactically required, none of the standard indentations or anything. I suspect he or she had ‘em stripped out mechanically to save a coupla K. It’s annoying and not just because I pride myself on my code-style.

I shall find a way. Hell, I can program in Fortran 77 using a CLI. Visual C# be buggered, shell systems are where it’s at!

So no cool invisible tiger graphics just yet. Designing them was kiddy stuff compared to the inpenetrables of Wordpress (no access to the HTML) or Blogger (no access to the CSS). I may have those the wrong way round but I was so narked by that point that I almost threw the Thinkpad out of the window. And this is my beloved “Echo”, a computer I adore and a machine whose almost confiscation almost resulted in an entirely justifiable assault on a US TSA official. I resisted temptation because my shoes were being X-rayed at the time and in my stocking feet I was not in any position to give them the kicking (up the bracket and indeed elsewise) they richly deserved. They also had guns and it would’ve brought my honeymoon to a spectacularly premature halt. And in Philadelphia of all places. W C fields was wrong. Philadelphia Airport - And you thought Atlanta Hartsfield was bad!

I suppose I also kinda wanted my marriage to last longer than one of Brittney Spears’s.