The House Always Wins (04/09/08)

Despite all the naysayers claiming I’d made a mistake by mentioning my plans for a website redesign on this blog because: “people will expect in now and it’ll take you six months to get around to it” (you know who you are!), the website has had a front-page facelift. It’s still not finished: the colourscheme hasn’t changed, I’m not happy with the way the section titles look and there’s no automation (meaning I have to manually update everything every time I write a new blog post, for example); but at least there are tidbits from all the different site pages as soon as you arrive. Hopefully it’ll cut down on my bounce rate a little.

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This is the second story I wrote in my 'one a day' week during my time in London. See Looking East for the first one.

READING THE BOOK

Finally, the Book was mine. After so long: after years of waiting, planning, investigating. Thousands of pounds spent. Romantic and platonic relationships ruined. After thefts, threats, violence, deception, and after committing crimes too heinous to recount, finally I held the Book in trembling hands.

It was huge and heavy. Quarto format and approximately one thousand pages thick. The cover was leather of some sort. Crudely cured and even more crudely bound to the Book, it had split in several places and been inexpertly stitched back together. Whatever colour it had originally been was now impossible to tell. Currently it was a dirty brown, covered in darker stains, pinhole burns and tiny bleached pits. The title, if the cover had ever shown it, was now no longer visible. That, however, was immaterial, as anyone who would desire to read the Book already knew its name. It was the Libris Necrodei: The Library of the Dead God, and now it and the forbidden knowledge it contained were mine.

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I'm learning Visual Basic!

05/09/2008: WEDDING APPROACHES FAST

I'm getting married on September 13th, then immediately going on my honeymoon. So expect the site to be dormant until I get back in early October. See you then!

05/09/2008: WEBSITE VERSION TWO UP!

Well, a basic version of the front page, anyway. It's nowhere near as polished as I want, and there's no automation yet, but this should give you an idea of where the site's headed, and should hopefully cut down on the bounce rate, as there's actually something to see now.