Returning visitors might notice the new logo (and favicon!) for the site in the upper-left corner; I figured something obvious to relate this site to things portable would be a good idea and what better than a huge disembodied USB plug?

I'll be adding a charity donation link under entries on this site. If you've enjoyed your visit and are the donating type, you'll have the option to donate to a charity in PAR's name (well, Sean's name really, he's my co-admin and editor; he didn't edit this post, which is why it's so rambling). We'll be starting with a Crohn's disease fundraiser.

I also have settled on a site browsing mechanism; try the Archives link to the left to see it in action. It has sorting capability, and more importantly (from a design perspective) it filters out empty categories. When designing the site, I came up with all sorts of category names I might use ahead of time... which meant Nucleus' default category listing had tons of entries that led to blank pages.

My host was kinda spotty this evening, seemingly down quite a few times; I hope they stay up for a while now. I really do like them...

I plan to release a new version (1.1) of EjectUSB sometime either tomorrow (well, later today... I'm up kinda late) or Thursday. It's mainly just some optimizations to the wait-for-programs-to-close routines but will also include a minor bugfix related to graceful closing and registry wrappers (like much of the software from PortableApps.com).

I'll be releasing a very simple file backup utility on the site later this week. I've actually posted it on the internet before, but this release has a couple bugfixes (related to command line argument parsing) and the added ability to cancel a backup in progress; no clue why it didn't have that before.

IE6 users (like myself) will be glad to know I'm accounting for the lack of PNG alpha transparency support and color matching PNG backgrounds to the basic white I use for entry backgrounds; this just means transparent PNGs won't have gray boxes around them on IE6 (they'll have white boxes instead, which won't be obvious against white backgrounds). I'm not using the alphaimageloader trick because, well, it affects browser performance.