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I think I have mentioned work on some websites, as opposed to super ultra mega cool compsci stuff. Well, one of them was relaunching http://www.saltmagazine.com/. I probably did the previous version six or seven years ago. While I was in programming, I had done no web programming--the site was poorly designed visually (now that was not entirely my fault) and all static HTML. Not even using Apache SSI, so the navigation had been copied and pasted to every page. That website had been one of my great shames. For this go around, we used a free template modified to show a SALT banner and ran it on top of the Drupal CMS with Ubercart and Authorize.net (die PayPal!). The off the shelf template isn't as cool as I might like, but it doesn't look cartoonish like the old one did. At any rate, it is nice to see an amateurish first attempt gone and replaced with a more professional approach.

Anyway, I am writing this post for a slightly different reason. My sister's first novel (The Last Heir) is available for sale on the rechristened site along with three preview chapters. Read it, buy it. And now, back to Mad Computer Scientist...