Thanks to our very alert commenter David, I’ve found out that my friend at Black & Right didn’t have entirely accurate information, and I’m sad to say I’ve reprinted the same inaccuracies! So I want apologize first off, but I also want to make a correction to my previous article, “Why I’ll Never Buy a Smart Car”. It turns out that it wasn’t even a Smart Car at all, but a Ford! While I’ve never been a fan of Fords either, the fact that it’s not a Smart Car kinda changes the whole premise of the post I wrote.

I’m afraid it’s awfully late here where I am (3:36AM) and I have to run to bed. My sleep deprived mind isn’t thinking clearly enough to come up with a good way of reworking the article right this minute. So after I’ve gotten some sleep, I’m going to do my best to rework it, republish it, and perhaps find a way to archive the original inaccurate article somewhere as evidence of the correction and David’s helpful commenting.

Anyway, I’ll work on that tomorrow, but I wanted to post this at least for now to let you know I got some inaccurate information and that I’ll be working on correcting it! I’m very sorry I wasn’t more thorough in my research before passing along this information! I promise that I will certainly try my best to be more diligent in the future.
I also want to say a huge thank you to David! Great catch, sir! I really appreciate it.
Good night, all! More tomorrow!

I apologize for the lack of new updates recently – my family and I have been getting the house ready for a visit with my siblings and their families. They’ll be arriving over the coming days as we all get geared up for the big family get together. While I’ll be doing my best to keep myself apprised of all the political goings-on, I won’t have as much time to spend blogging. I’ll do my best, but I’ll have to keep most of it under wraps; my liberal brother is here too, so we will all be doing our best to keep our tongues well bitten in order to avoid any confrontations.
So I’ll be blogging as much as I’m able, but I most likely won’t be as prolific as usual. My apologies, hope you understand!

In an attempt to restructure the category organization, I’ll be condensing all the categories relating specifically to issues surrounding the campaign in 2008. All the original posts will still be available, but they’ll be truncated into one category as opposed to many. I’ve copied down the original structure and will provide them here, below the fold, for the sake of archiving the way they were originally presented. All of the posts will still be available; if you wish to find them via their original category structure, please click “more” to see the original category listing.
I’ll be working to try and condense more categories over the coming days, but this was the most obvious beginning. If you have any suggestions, of course, please post them here! Thanks!

I’ve decided it’s high-time I restructure the category list over there on the right, since it’s gotten unbelievably huge since the transition from campaign information to running an effective post-election opposition. So I’m going to do my best to reorganize & condense it into a more effective structure, while of course maintaining archives of the election-related stuff. I’ll leave all the original tags in place, so if you want to search on a specific campaign-related topic, you’re welcome to do so in the search box. I may also put together some kind of legend or something, to make it easier to look at all that stuff. I’ll post another update when I’ve gotten it all done, but it may take some time, so I thought I’d let you all know to expect some changes over the next day or two.
More later!

After discovering the rude disappearance of my side menu, I tried in vain to sort through the piles upon piles of code that made up my WordPress template. But alas, CSS is so far beyond me that it’s not even funny, so the reason for the egregious error eluded me. Without a solution in sight, I decided to do something drastic…
Completely redesign the site! Yay!
So now BarackNObama.net has an entirely new look, one that is complete with its side-menu-ness. Honestly, I’m really glad the previous site’s side menu decided to escape, because I actually like this look a whole lot more. It’s so much brighter, so much more cheerful, which is honestly necessary since all too often I’m blogging about wholly depressing topics. But hey, our country may be going to hell in a hand basket, but oooo look, a cute blue birdie!!

Speaking of that cute blue birdie, the birdie was just oh so cute that I didn’t dare remove it. After all, when I picked out this template I didn’t even have a twitter account to link to, so there would really be no point in keeping the cute blue birdie. That is, unless I finally swallowed my pride and opened up a twitter account.

You know, I never really understood twitter. It always seemed to me to be either a tool for the incredibly narcissistic, or for those with super teensy attention spans, or both. But my good friend Joey has been telling me about its wonders for the past few weeks. Which, knowing Joey, is quite remarkable – she’s even more skeptical of the latest Internet fads than I am. I always kind of look at Internet fads like this: it’s all been done before to some extent. For instance, Facebook is the new MySpace, and MySpace was the new Friendster. So what does that make Twitter? The new form of permanent, public, open-mic IMing? It just seemed so silly. Most of the “tweets” (oh gag, the lingo…) seemed to be stupid stuff no one would care about, like “Hey, I’m at the grocery store right now, buying Ben & Jerry’s. Aren’t I awesome?!”

Anyway, all rants aside, Joey assured me that twitter has evolved from those days – in her words, “it’s grown up” – so here I am, compelled to start my own twitter account because I picked out a new WordPress template with a cute blue birdie I couldn’t resist.
If you’re so inclined to join the twitterista (is that really part of the lingo or did I just make that one up?), you can follow me at BarackNObamaNet. As you also might have noticed, just to the left of that cute blue birdie is a little window featuring my latest tweets. I’m particularly proud of that little window – that wasn’t there in the original template. Oh no, I had to program that myself! And I’m oh so very proud of myself for doing so. I couldn’t repair my side menu, but I damn well wanted to make sure my new tweets filled up that otherwise useless space. When I finally got it working – through a great deal of wild ass guessing, throwing code around like darts hoping it’d stick somewhere – I literally did a little squeal and a happy dance in my office chair. So I sincerely hope you enjoy that little ‘Latest Tweets’ window, cause it sure wasn’t easy to set up.

That’s about it from me for tonight. I hope to be blogging and tweeting (a little part of me dies each time I say that…) more often over the next several weeks. If you wouldn’t mind, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the new design and any other improvements you think I could make. No guarantees I’ll actually be able to accomplish them, mind, but I can sure try. Thanks!