I just got back from California and, oh, the sites I saw! One of which was the movie Zardoz, which I have reviewed for your enjoyment. I have also posted pictures of my studio workspace in my art section.

I’ve tweaked the look of the site here and there and have added a new image to my art gallery. I have also began creating a link page dedicated to my friends, colleagues and former classmates.

Starting today, if you are looking at this page with a non-webstandards based browser it will look like a jumbled mess. I have decided to join the Webstandards.org Browser Upgrade Initiative by making this site take advantage of Cascading Stylesheets, JavaScript and other goodies that help separate form from content. What does this mean? It means that now anyone with an HTML 4.0/CSS-1 compliant browser, be it a desktop, cellular phone, or a microwave, will be able to access the content of my site.

There are still some problems with standards compliance in IE for windows (which is the browser I mainly use). Because of these problems I am still using a table to lay out the main content area of my site. I tried using a left-floating <div> tag to make my monsters sit to the left of the text, but the text kept jumping below the illustrations depending on how wide I would stretch my browser window. It seemed like every other pixel wider would make it jump back and forth. Also, I downloaded Opera 5 to see how my site would look in that browser. All in all it looked okay, there are some major problems with hovering colors on my links which I can’t explain. All in all I think the site is working well in it’s new skin.

There’s a new Fun Stuff posting up.

Thank heaven for permalink! I did a search on my name and come across my old web page from back when I lived in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. I no longer have FTP access to the server with the pages on it so I can’t delete any embarrassing comments or bad design decisions I made have made back in ’98. The one section that still holds up as a classic for the ages is my old Planet Pimp Records page! A word of warning, it’s a very slow server.

UPDATE: Well the link finally is dead. Here it is for posterity’s sake: http://homepage.davesworld.net/~rgomez/planetp/index.html

I’ve added a new section to my music section. Now I have a place to vent about all thing music which I hate. My flagship article in this new section is a critque of sucky eTailor, CDUniverse.

Wika’s Web Page is up! I designed it and Wika is slowly gathering content to fill it up. Everything she says about me is a gawd darn lie.

This past December I sent out hand a hand printed woodcut as a holiday greeting card. Take a look at the image in my art gallery. I have several extras and will sell you one for cheap… shall we say five bucks! Interested? Send me an email and we’ll talk business!

Also, sometime soon I will be adding Wika’s Section to this site. Check back in a couple of days and be amazed!

I have not made any updates to this page lately for I have been busy during the holidays, visiting in-laws and the like. I have also been geeking-out with The Sims and Ultima 7: Serpent Isle. This week, after about a month’s hiatus, I have began working on new prints. If anyone knows of a good place to buy woodcut tools (besides Graphic Chemical) here in Chicago please drop me a line. When I make my woodcuts — even though I have lots of tools — I tend to use the same three tools, and I just lost my favorite u-shaped micro gouge.

For the first time in about 2 years I have added a new record review to my music pages! I’m not gonna tell you what I reviewed, so you’ll have to search for it. Ooooo… mean web-boy do bad-bad!