Just bought a bunch of books at Amazon;

1. “Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design”
   Robert Hoekman Jr.
2. “Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action (Voices That Matter)”
   Robert Hoekman Jr.
3. “The Design of Everyday Things” Don Norman;
4. “The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity”
   Alan Cooper;
5. “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”
   Hunter S. Thompson;

I converted to Wordpress, don’t really know yet what to think of it yet as an engine to drive this site. It is a very capable system to manage personal publishing in a weblog form and has a very slick - semi intuitive- interface. The whole range of plug ins enable you to do about anything, but perhaps not exactly the way you want it without breaking the core, making updating difficult. We’ll see how this goes, I was never really a blogger anyway, more of a once-uploaded-don’t-bother-with-it-again person.

Why does Wordpress stuff all the contents of the sidebar in an endless nested collection of ul and li tags that are xhtml-wise not quite there yet. The stinky part is Wordpress does within the core application so when you fix it, you’ll have to do it all over again the next time an update comes out. Put the html stuff where it belongs; in a theme…