Like Wordless Wednesday, but Wordless Tuesday doesn’t sound as good.

I took the above photo of the moon on Sunday evening at about 6:15 p.m. It’s always interesting to see the moon against a blue sky, since we’re generally used to seeing it at night against a backdrop of stars.

Last Monday, I started what might become a weekly update (until I finish the site!) on the progress of my eCommerce site renovation. Thanks to the feedback from all of my volunteers, I have been able to finish the design of the site. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Even if I didn’t implement your suggestions, I appreciate them and gave them all due consideration. Once you see the finished site, you will see that your feedback did affect the final design. There was one suggestion that I tried to implement, but it ended up looking worse, so I went back on that one.

It certainly helps a lot to get some different viewpoints in the design phase, rather than waiting until the thing is up and running and getting questions from customers about where’s this and that.

I am now in the process of ripping apart the design. Now that I have a design finalized, I am cutting it up so that I can more easily make global changes to the site without having to edit each individual page. That will definitely be a good thing. If you were to browse the current site, you’d see three or four different designs across the pages, as not all pages got updated on previous redesigns. I plan to avoid that in the future!

I had other projects I had to complete this past week and over the weekend, so I did not get to spend as much time on the site as I had planned. But, I do think I have made significant progress since last week. Hopefully, by the end of this week, I can have the design shredded and put back together, and then I can get to work on the meat of the site.

Due to the Hollywood writers’ strike, this evening’s award ceremony must be postponed.

Seriously, Sunday Awards Night will have to be postponed; I’ve just got too many things going on to sit down and do it.

I did do a couple short tests that I saw on Ann’s site. What are your results? Here are mine:

What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Interesting, but I’m not sure I like where this is going:

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Doug, who has apparently developed a man-crush, thought he saw a leaf. He was kind of right. There is a leaf in the photo, but it was not depicted in the fragment nor is it the main subject of the piece.

Joanne thought it was all about her and doesn’t regret it.

Sabrina thought she saw a flower, but her mind’s off figuring out how to make money with a blog, so we can forgive her for not even being close.

Deborah, who apparently has a fondness for Andy Rooney, came this || close–sad considering her blog is all Halloween’d up.

It’s sad that Jon didn’t come out to play.

So, what was the photo? Well, here it is, with the clipping shown from whence it came.

Click the tiny photo for the larger version.

Tomorrow (hopefully!) it will be time for Sunday Evening Awards. I received two in the past two weeks (thought both were in the last few days–my, how time flies!) and it will be time to say “Thanks!” and pass ‘em along.

Nice, eh? Well, on this Foto Friday, I am just showing a partial image, and you can leave your guess in the comments. The prize? Some link love in return, and the satisfaction of possibly guessing correctly.

I will warn you that, while the partial image is from the full photograph, I may not be playing completely fair…

No one tagged me with this meme, but I’m busy and don’t have time for a full, quality post. So, we’ll just do a random Thursday Thirteen!

He started blogging when he was 13. Now he’s 14 and probably may make more money than you. “Interview with Carl Ocab”

You don’t need to speak German to understand this one.

Declare war on your co-workers and hit the self-destruct button if the tide turns against you with this selection of USB toys.

I don’t think that was the problem she was seeking a solution for.

Here are ten reasons to learn Ruby, which I thought might be helpful in my blog sparring with Ruby, er, Joanne, but it’s something all together different. But, isn’t “Ruby the Pirate King’s Daughter” kind of catchy?

Scientists reveal that there really is no pleasant way to die. That’s uplifting.

Maybe seeing seven wonders of the underground world will boost your spirits. Wait… Underground… Must. Think. Of. Something. Else. Oh, yes, the people that live in that house in Wales be may related to Doug.

Not thirteen, you say? Dang! You can count; you must have went to public school. Well, it’s like this, six of these are doubly good, so I think that counts as thirteen. You can figure out which six are doubly good. Talk amongst yourselves…

What? You were expecting a photo?

To make up for the fact that I haven’t answered her eMail yet and also to cover for the fact that I don’t have anything to write about for today, I will post another picture, taken from my front yard, of fireworks from earlier in the month. That would be from this post for those playing along at home.

This was one of the first shots of the night, and when you’re setting up the camera outside in the dark, you do stuff like forget to turn the flash off because you were fumbling with another setting, which you normally get right, but miscounted your turns… I still think it turned out kind of neat. Maybe not as nice as Jon’s or Mike’s photos, but I only bought the camera to take product shots.

I was not tagged by Doug for this one, but I will be tagging people!!! If you already felt the ping, you know who you are.

The instructions: “These are the top 106 books most often marked as ‘unread’ by LibraryThing’s users. The rules: bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, strike through what you couldn’t stand and underline* those you have no intention of reading.”

*I’ll put in ALL CAPS instead, because underlining things that are not links is bad form!

Maybe someday we’ll learn what the numbers in parentheses are for!

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi: a Novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (74)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian: a Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault’s Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver’s Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela’s Ashes: a Memoir (51) I liked it when I read it. In retrospect, the man whines nonstop.
The God of Small Things (51)
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50) Parts I liked. Parts I couldn’t stand.
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50) Yeah, I ought to give this one a second chance.
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake: a Novel (47)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46)
On the Road (46)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
*Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45) Didn’t finish–not “couldn’t” finish. There is a difference!
Watership Down (44)
Gravity’s Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)

It is possible I read more and forgot about them.

Okay, now on to the tagging!

JD
Joanne
Jon

All J’s!

To whatever readers I may have left, I feel like I have made some significant progress on my eCommerce site this weekend. All of my volunteers have now been sent eMails, and I await their responses.

Largely, the progress was in designing little icons for use in identifying different features. I did 18 designs. Fortunately, I was able to “recycle” and rework some icons I had created about 10 years ago. Well, in the end, 1 was “recycled” with only minor changes, but the other 17 were basically new, but based on my previous icons.

I also reworked the page so that another section (which will be universal across all pages) is saved in a separate file, so all I need do is edit the file and the change will be reflected on all pages on the site.

Once I get some feedback, I think I’ll be able to start working on additional pages! I’m reasonably happy with the current design, so hope it pans out. Of course, some tweaking may be in order, but I’ve been designing the site such that universal changes should be easy to make, assuming I’m not forgetting anything.