With the exception of the "memo" layout (or the lemon one, depending on the browser you were viewing the site with), everything should be back to normal. Sort of.

A few of the plugins I had before do not want to cooperate, and I would rather ring in the new year with my lovely wife.

I will finish things up tomorrow.

If things seem a bit wonky here today, it's because I decided to make a few changes behind the giant curtain. Things should be back to normal shortly.

Update: I am still tweaking some things, but I am sure we will all like it in the end.

Another Update: I upgraded WordPress to 1.5 beta 1 (nightly build) and of course, it hosed my existing layout… That's what I get for being on the bleeding edge. The site SHOULD be functional, although little things are missing at the moment, like grins, etc. I will work on it throughout the day to get things back to normal.

If you are using Internet Explorer to view this site. Click here to reset the skin of the site so you can actually read the content. :???:

Then again, maybe you cannot even read this post!?!

Update: Okay, so I fixed it. It would have been nice if the question was showing right? haha…

Vinny noticed that something was amiss with the vote results this evening, so I took a look, and wouldn't ya know it. Someone was trying to pad the vote. So… A fix has been put in place that records your IP address, instead of just setting a cookie.

Have fun, and vote often! :lol:

I, like many others, have experienced a sometimes severe memory leak with Firefox 1.0, and being the diligent person that I am, I decided today to put an end to it.

NO. I am not switching browsers.

Earlier today I came across this following tip and I thought I would try it. I have had a minimum of 7 tabs and a maximum of 31 tabs open at one time with no significant drag on system resources. When I cooked dinner this evening, I decided to leave Firefox on the screen with 20 tabs open. If I had done this before I would notice a significant decline in system performance, including my system clock. Well, it has been about 12 hours and I have not had to restart Firefox to clear up memory. This tip seems to have done the trick. I hope it helps you.

From the Secrets of Firefox 1.0:

Firefox is supposed to dynamically release memory from its RAM cache to other Windows applications as needed. Unfortunately, Firefox 1.0 seems to consume more memory than it should, which hurts performance, when set to the default of 51200 KB (51 MB).

To solve this, Firefox power users recommend limiting the memory cache using the Configuration Console. This frees up memory for other apps, speeding up everything to a greater or a lesser extent, depending on your machine and the applications you run. Here's how the trick works:

Step 1. Type about:config into Firefox's Address Bar and press Enter.

Step 2. Right-click any row, then click New, Integer. Type or paste the following preference name into the dialog box that appears (this is a hidden preference that doesn't exist in the Configuration Console until you create it):

browser.cache.memory.capacity

Step 3. Click OK, then enter the following integer number into the next dialog box, representing 16 MB of RAM for the cache:

16000

Step 4. Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of Firefox and restart it.