Well, it seems like whatever went out of control on the hard drive on the server yesterday is under control, but it has left the BlueTracker in a state of disrepair. I'm looking into the problem, but until it's straightened out, the .plan updates output an error (along with a note to contact me, but I'm aware already). Hopefully we'll get this straightened out soon enough (darned technology). More on the little Blue smiley icon for IE5 (only, unfortunately) users: I want to thank Morbid for making a version of the blue smiley with a transparent background, which I may use, but I also want to acknowledge 6|Red-Death, who originally sent along word on this trick a while back, along with an icon of his own (I didn't see the included icon at the time--doh!). I've changed the icon for his, which is perhaps easier to make out, though it may take a while to show up (I don't know what the deal is on caching with these icons is, but it seems awfully persistent). Finally, I do not know why it does not work on the index1 that offers headlines, but unless a solution offers itself, headline aficionados will have to suffer iconless (I've always been an iconoclast).

An apology: I confused a Brainiac reference with a Bizarro reference yesterday. Don't know what me was thinking... me am sorry (I pulled the reference in embarrassment once a couple of readers spotted it with their X-Ray vision).

Link of the Day: Seattle Weekly's April Fool. You would not believe the number of emails I got from frightened readers who bit on this one.