It’s just birthday week, I guess. Go pinch Chris’s adorable little cheeks.

Further musings:

1) I wonder if those pictures which are definitely not Kottke get an automatic zero, or if instead users assign a degree of “Kottkeness,” however they define that, to the person photographed. Was that what was intended? Is it what people will do? Nevertheless, it might be interesting to see where other web-celebs fall on the scale. I, for instance, would give some people 11’s and above, seeing as my definition of “Kottkeness”* is roughly analagous to “person who has done something[s] cool for the web that you would also like to [bleep].”

2) My, but he’s a quick one. One can just imagine a script tied into the Blogger backend that scans the bodies of blog posts and sends an alert to his pager when it encounters “Kottke.” Hell, I would do it, if I could. (Or, just maybe, Neale might have done the polite thing and run it by him first. Stranger things have happened.)

* I tried, but I just can’t force myself to remove those quote marks.

I was trying to go at least a week without linking to Neale, but Oh My God!

And now I’m fabulous. (Actually, I’m “of,” but y’know..) I honestly stopped thinking of this as “new” after a week, but I suppose to Jerwin we’re all whippersnappers. Bonus: following to find what other blogs Jerwin has declared faboo, I find two sites that link to here that I had no inkling of! It’s a good thing there’s a picture of an 11-year-old me in a spider costume hanging in the hall outside my room, or I might let my ego get out of check.

Ever since the Great Blogger Upgrade, all but the latest month’s archives have been disappearing from the index, consistently, every three days or so. And the “solution” suggested here got a little tiresome to repeat over and over. I’ve finally broken down and put the archives directly in the template, which means I’ll have to add the new ones manually every month. At least until the Prya folks figure out how to fix this problem permanently, which of course they will. (All hail Pyra, giver of life.)

I also took the opportunity to rejigger the navigation again, in the hopes that more people will realize that the ‘hoblog isn’t all that’s here. It’s a surprisingly difficult concept to communicate.