Well That Was Fun

I said I would take it down, I never said for how long. Thank you to everyone for taking a little time out with me in celebration of the big day. I was as surprised as everyone else, and watching the reactions come in was pretty interesting. The emails ranged from shocked to congratulatory to incredulous to angry. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Many people linked to the site being down which should help solidify the #1 position in the eyes of the fickle mistress Google. Thank you all as well.

You’d think it would be cooler here in Houston, with hell freezing over and all, but it is as hot as ever. At the same time I’m told in San Francisco I need to dress in “layers.” I packed all my layers up months ago! Might have some <div>s around though…

I was able to get some of the work I was planning to do on the site done, mostly tweaks to the look and layout of things. I wouldn’t call it a redesign, more like a summer variation on a theme. Many of the changes are very subtle, but in my eyes important. The most obvious change, the sun in the corner, looks nothing like I want it to, so I’m not sure what will happen to that. (If you have any ideas, send them in.) Many other things still need attention, so expect to see occasional breakage and constant tweaking over the next week. I finally closed the comments on the mosaic. So it will stand at 1,017 comments,. The page is still huge, so I’m going to move the comments to a separate page just for that entry. The jazz quotes need some cleaning up, and I’d like to add a little information about each player to each page, including at least a picture. The photolog is being overhauled, and the long-promised classics section is almost done. Finally I promise that photo will be random again, any day now.

It was just a little over a day, but it feels good to be back. Let’s not do that again though. I really missed writing here.

I’m going to be in San Francisco next week, so if you are too I’d love to meet up. Drop me a line.

23 thoughts on “Well That Was Fun”

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Congrats Matt.

11,000+ WordPress blogs linking to you might have helped. Glad to say I’m one of them 🙂

Very pleased to see that your takedown was short-lived.

Echo Comment #1.

Good call with the downtime loophole. I bet a lot of people never thought of that.

But you’re still only number two for “Matthew“.

I like the subtle changes you’ve made, including the sun. I hope you keep it. The tab font looks better too.

Only thing though: you should try and make sure the header photo always matches the header. The one currently on display does a good job of that, but with random photos it’s anyone’s bet. But you have color meta data for all pics, right?

I thought I lost you there for a second… 😉 Glad you’re back!

Haha. That was really funny Matt. Oooh! Will that add to pagerank? Have fun being the #1 Matt. I was just knocked down to the #2 ‘Kevin Francis’ 🙁

Very funny, young man. I knew your stunt would be shortlived, but you were as good as your word. The success of WordPress is probably mostly to blame for your elevated status, and you should feel justifiably proud of yourself for that.