Matt Read, Flibbertigibbet

My hosts harddrive, that this site was on, crashed Saturday. They got everything back, but I decided to do some cleaning, and deleted a lot of old files and crap I don't use anymore. So if you run into any 404's or other problems, it's my fault and I'm sorry. I should have everything back and reorginized by the end of the week.

Say hello to Lucid, my new WordPress theme. It's still in "alpha" mode, as they say, but I thought I would give you all a preview of what it's going to be. So let's call it Lucid v0.9-alpha-6.

My site is now rated with the SafeSurf rating system. It's rated as "Adult Supervision Recommended". I haven't been approved by SafeSurf yet, but hopefully I soon will get my license. Have a look at my rating.

This post is a test of my new CSS pseudo elements. I have added special quotes for English, Francais and German (only seems to work in Gecko, hmm). I have also added a neat hack to show the cite attribute right after a blockquote, to show the source of that blockquote, as well as language markers for the given lang attribute. Anyway, this post is just to test them out. Note that this will not work in IE, so go get FireFox.

Happy Talk Like Pirate Day. I have added a Pirate filter to filter all posts and make me sound like Pirate. Anyway have fun ye Picaroon. Arrrrr. Walk the plank! Aarrr! Be sure to read some of the posts, as the filter adds in some random Pirate jargon, avast. Can be funny.

I have a question for everybody. How should I link to people's site from my site? should I (a) link to them use their site's name, or (b) link to them using their real name. Personally I'm leaning towards their real name, but I'd like to know what you all think.

After giving away 32 invites in less than two days, Google seems to think I'm good at it, cause they gave me six more. This time and from now on I will NOT post the gmail invites on this site, but if you email me at webmaster 'at' mattread 'dot' com, I will send you an invite. I currently have about 24 invites to give away.

You may notice some wonky shit as you browse around my site. That is because I'm doing some minor upgrades to the site, to make a better experience for you and me. So please be patient and understanding as my testing server blew up. Well not blew up, just died.

Sorry to anyone who tried to visit my on saturday. But my host upgraded their server and my site was down a couple of hours. They also changed the path of my site from /home/ to /home2/ so I had to change a few things. If you see any errors please email me or comment on this post. Thanks.

I updated the style of this site at bit, agian. I know, it never ends, but it's fun. You'll notice the "raised side bar" and the new post format of the blog, like this post. Also I've added Photomatt's Asides hack to give the little linky things.

I added some different backgrounds to each section on this site. Hope you like them and please leave a comment if you do or don't like them. Also I added the visitor counter script to the tweaks section, enjoy.