Back in July, I wondered aloud as to whether or not I should alter the naming convention I utilize to organize my collection of MP3s.  Should "The Flaming Lips" be "Flaming Lips, The"?  Is "Neil Young" better sorted as "Young, Neil"? I decided the answer to both question is yes

You know that "to do" list we mentally keep of things to bang off as soon as other stuff dies down?  I keep one, and it had a list of things to do to this web site as soon as other projects wrapped up.  This weekend, I finally found the

I finally got around to creating an RSS feed of this blog.  RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and you can read all about it here. You'll notice I opted for the orange "RSS" buttons (check beneath the Recent Entries list on the right) instead of the popular "XML" buttons.

The CGI script I was using for searches within this site never really pleased me.  It seemed a little too buggy and unpredictable for my liking, so last night I tapped into the powers of Google and will use their prowess to power torontomike.com searches. As always, you can

I made four changes to the presentation of this website.  There's no way you'll be able to spot all four.  Sure, you might get a couple, but all four?  No way. The four subtle changes are: That's my left eye up there on top.  Now, while you're checking up on

I've changed the way I share pictures from this site.  I've always had a Pictures page where I post pictures I want to share, and I'll continue to do just that, but henceforth these pictures will actually be hosted by Flickr. This alone won't create a noticeable difference to visitors,

If this site looks a little different today, it's because every font you see is Georgia.  Everything had been Verdana for such a long time I felt an itch to switch. Periodically I change up the font family of my site, but I always end up with Verdana or Georgia.

Good news everyone, the highly entertaining content on this site remains completely free!  All of this glorious insight, interesting news, weekly MP3s and cute pictures of my kids continues to cost you absolutely nothing. I considered putting ads on this site in an attempt to recoup some the costs associated

Earlier this afternoon I glanced at my site and felt an itch I had to scratch.  I realized it's been over a year since the last major change to the look and feel of these pages so I started hacking away at the CSS in an attempt to freshen her

I've maintained a website at http://torontomike.com since 1999.  Over the past five years, there's always been a page for news of sorts or the hot items of the day, but this detail was never archived and would just vanish when I over wrote it with another blurb.  Until

I made several changes to the main navigation menu of this site today.  For starters, I completely altered the way the menu is rendered by rewriting the entire CSS.  Although it doesn't look that different from the previous menu, the code for this is a great deal cleaner.  Less is

A single Pictures page wasn't cutting the mustard any more.  I'm adding pictures all the time and the Pictures page keeps getting longer and longer.  I've split the page into two so that the Pictures page continues to host the most recent pictures while another page hosts archived pictures and

You're viewing this page in Firefox, right?  If that's a little blue "e" in the top left corner, you haven't made the switch yet.  Firefox is my web browser of choice and I strongly urge everyone to install and use it. If you are viewing this page in Firefox, you'll

You can now search the contents of this website.  On every page you'll find a search field beneath the main navigation menu on the far left side.  You can't miss it, it's the one labelled "Search torontomike.com". Search to your heart's content.  As a test I just did a

Last night I migrated this site to a new host.  All in all it was pretty slick thanks to these guys.  Hopefully you didn't even notice. I'll be making some changes to this site over the next few days, introducing a forum for comments and the ability to search within

I threatened to change the Pictures page now that I have a digital camera and I've just delivered as promised. The Pictures page now has a caption beside each image.  I've also added a picture taken last night and another taken moments ago.  What are you waiting for?  Get to

In the past I've written about how I hand code every stitch of this website.  I use a basic text editor and hand code valid XHTML and CSS.  I've been resisting the pressure to start using one of the many blogging tools, especially Movable Type.  Mark has been suggesting I

If you glance at the main navigation menu on the left, you'll notice a new link to My MP3s.  As promised, I've made this page easier to access. Since I completed my digitalization project back in December, I've made a few significant changes.  First of all, I decided 128kbps wasn't

You may have noticed a different appearance for torontomike.com.  It's been soaked in green.  Don't worry, this isn't permanent.  The green will only be here through St. Patrick's Day. The best part is, because all the presentation in this site is driven by a cascading style sheet, it took

With 2003 coming to a close, I'm making another minor change to this site.  Yesterday I announced that my "Quote of the Week" will be posted here every Sunday and the "Homer's Quote of the Week" will be posted here every Saturday.  I'm also making a change to the way

I'm making a few minor changes to a couple of weekly features of this site.  In the past, I've posted "Mike's Quote of the Week" every Saturday morning.  You'll see this morning's quote right below this entry.  Starting next weekend, I'm going to be posting "Mike's Quote of the Week"

Apparently, if a page is not part of the navigation menu on the left, it doesn't get visited.  Nobody visits the torontomike.com Sitemap to learn that other pages exist.  Out of sight, out of mind I suppose. As a result, I just added a couple of pages to the

I'm going to start something new.  I've created a Guest Blog Submission Page as part of this website.  Should you have something you'd like to express to a mass audience, you can use torontomike.com as your forum. It's easy like Sunday morning. Click here and rant, attack, bloviate, declare,