Because recent entries have been shrinking, sapped by nothing other than
personal deficits in time, energy and attention span, and because I’ve managed
to steal five minutes here and there for the minutiae of blog-tweaking this
semester–a visitor hitmap,
Geobytes IP
locater, a Flickr thing, and now a feedlist (java-generated from RSS
Digest) from my del.icio.us
account–the right column exceeded the left column, forcing me to change the
threshold of recent entries from nine to twelve so the centered bits from the
right column wouldn’t be floating freely at the bottom of the screen. 
Probably it’s time to convert to a three-column design, eh?  Or I could
reverse that shrinking trend.

On another break from project writing, I recently dropped a robots
exclusion file in the main blog directory to curb bot-traffic hunting
through extraneous stuff I keep on the server. It corrected the visits by 200 on
the first day, so the stats are slightly more indicative of actual site traffic,
for whatever that might be worth.  Also, I’m trying out a rotate.php file
to ease into some understanding of what PHP scripts make possible.  For
now, it’s just a simple image randomization cue, which pulls from jpegs in a
designated sub-directory (on refresh, the pic of the Quad will flip between two dif’t images…important stuff, really).  Over break I hope to have more time to play
around with PHP controls for other aims and purposes.  But I only know
enough to get frustrated, and I’ve got plenty of other stuff to do, like
reintroducing myself to family.