I'm not sure that I have a good reason for having done this, but I've made some small changes to the format of the journal pages. I'd like to simplify some things around here for some other projects that I have in mind. Although the HTML for the journal has never been especially demanding, I might have grown bored with the WordPad interface, and the other projects will require me to spend more time writing here than I do for the journal alone.

So, I've returned to the first lens through which I viewed (and learned) HTML, to the familiar (and for me, comfortable) interface of Microsoft Word. No doubt a glitch or two will show up in my pages over the next few days. Word offers less flexibility than straight HTML. It doesn't wrap text in a table around pictures as easily as HTML does, so I'll have to adapt the appearance, and just for sake of simplicity, I've returned to a more conventional look on the links, living within the Microsoft limits. And I'll still have to see what kind of adventure Word offers when I try to add the Sitemeter counter to the page. [Surprise, surprise -- it was trouble free.]

I seem to be going backward when I should be investigating CSS or XML. I could probably talk myself out of the changes if I sit here much longer tonight. But in the end, my interest in these pages has never been about the HTML, so I will doggedly stick with the changes, at least for the duration of this entry anyway.

I don't know that the move will last for very long. But I found when I was writing the longer entries about the ten commandments issue that because I had committed myself to that piece, I was unwilling to interrupt it to talk about other events that had arisen in the present tense. I'd numbered the entries, forgodssake, and I could have had ten entries. Some things I'd like to write about and post at this site won't fit in the journal format. I suspect that those three entries don't really fit within the journal. But the point to make here is that the time spent writing those entries might have been more enjoyable looking at an interface more interesting than WordPad's.