Sunday, July 15, 2007

new life = new look

I was little bored with the Blogger template I've been using for the past two years, so I decided it's probably a good time for a change.

I have also removed word verification from comments, because it's annoying, and spam makes me feel more popular.

Things may move around on the page over the next few days, but don't panic - I promise to bring you the same low quality, morally questionable content you've come to expect from Rocketradio.

18 comments:

Leonesse said...

Wow! Great new look. Will you be having a housewarming blogging?

Dale said...

It was something I said, wasn't it?

katrocket said...

Thanks Leonesse - what a GREAT idea. I will be pleased to accept photos (.jpg format) of houseplants and other "housewarming" type gifts at katrocket@rogers.com -- if anyone sends images, I'll post them to a special blogwarming article later this week.

Dale: It wasn't really something you said, I'm just trying really hard to impress you.

Snooze said...

Looking good. However, I'm jealous as I can't branch out from preset Blogger templates.

katrocket said...

Snooze: I am using a preset Blogger template! It's called Minima Dark, and I've just customized the colours and fonts in the "layout" menu, and added my own header graphic that I made in Photoshop. Blogger Beta now makes all this stuff really easy for programming-challenged people like us. If you want to know how, I'm happy to teach you...

T said...

Things look much better. Your red suit really kicks! I'm not sure of your new profile photo though, -the lavender jacket is right out of Rick Ocasek's closet. Even though I'm one of those that despises the "big sunglasses trend", (they cover too much face and I never really understood why the upper-cheeks and eyebrows need UV protection), they kinda fit.

pistols at dawn said...

Also, are you sure you're not about to have a high school reunion or anything? That's usually the reason for a drastic change.

pistols at dawn said...

It's true: I really can't go home again. And not just for the usual reasons, like "they changed the locks," or "a different family lives there now," or "I'm incarcerated for the next 7 to 10" - because the world keeps on a-changin' without me.

Thanks for reminding me of how little impact I have on the world, Kat. In fact, that's the real reason people love this An Inconvenient Truth movie - finally, they feel like they're making some kind of an impact on this world, even if it's of the terribly destructive carbon footprint variety.

katrocket said...

T: Thanks for the style advice, Coco. Because appealing to middle-aged golf addicts is totally what I'm all about.

Pistols: There's no reunion, I just LIKE change, especially quarters and dimes, cuz they make a cool noise when I drop them into the Coin-o-matic at Walmart and yell "I won!!! Yeah, I WON!!!""

pistols at dawn said...

I only play Coinstar machines, because it's the only game people ever seem to enjoy. Slot machines in Vegas seem to be good only for soulless smoking and joyless losing of your money.

katrocket said...

Pistols: Coinstar = Coin-o-matic, same coin-changing machine, different coin-changing names. I regret you didn't get my joke, because it would have spared you the shame of stealing it and rehashing it right underneath mine.

pistols at dawn said...

Kat, if you haven't learned by now that I have no shame, then I've taught you nothing. I figured you Canadians are so addicted to gambling that even your Wal-Marts are dens of sin. My apologies.

katrocket said...

Touché! (I think that means "touch me") Though Walmart would be a much more exciting place to shop if there was a blackjack table and complimentary drinks!

pistols at dawn said...

I would continually try to rollback my bets when I lost. "Where's that damn smiley face guy when ya need him?" I'd ask as jackbooted thugs dragged me away from the table to some undisclosed location.

Bert Bananas said...

Touché me in the morning.

For me, the best change is that you post more often. Perhaps it's possible to get too much of a good thing, but so far I'm handling it okay... Someone's got to handle it...

katrocket said...

I'm glad you're enjoying the sudden volume increase at Rocketradio, Bert! Truth be told, it's because I'm unemployed now and blogging is more fun than job searches. We'll see if you still have nice things to say once I get desperate for cash and add BlogSense ads to this page. Ha!

Leonesse said...

Wow, Kat, do you really change icons/personalities with just the tilt of your head? I am impressed.

I am going out now to find you the best darn housewarming gift available in this less than hoity toity town. (I am not positive that is how you spell Hoity Toity, because it comes up with suggestions like typhoid and obesity when spell checking. You have no idea how apropos that is.)

katrocket said...

Yes Leonesse, I have been changing icons too often lately, but that's just because the stronger personalities were complaining about "face-time", so a compromise had to be negotiated.

From what I've read on your blog, your town may not have "hoity toity" gift ideas (I'm officially adopting your spelling because it seems phonetically sound), but it does have copius amounts of alcohol, and that's the gift that keeps on giving (me liver disease).