Whitman boys.

Eventually, I suppose I will be posting pictures of him playing soccer, or on stage in a play, or just reading a novel quietly on the couch. But right now he’s five months old, which means that we take pictures in the main hope that he will make an especially daft and entertaining face, or that we can pose him in some preposterous way. But most of them come out with him staring at the camera and drooling. Viz.:
Here, he looks a little intimidated.

Here, drooly:

This is a keeper. I promise, that’s my beer, and I don’t share.

The yellowish tinge comes from the non-use of a flash combined with our red-painted dining room.

OK, I promised pics, so here they are. First, Gus making a bizarre face.

And here he is, in standard cute mode, standing. He loves to stand.

And here he is, two weeks later so more recently, and you can’t see his face. Now that he is teething, he always has to have something in his mouth.

So after hours of perusing the WordPress support forums (fora?) and more hours tinkering with the css of this site, I now pronounce the problems with Internet Exploder solved.  It means I have to insert a tiny little bit of code every time I link to a picture (and this will happen tonight, yea verily) rather than implementing a fix site-wide — this also probably means that if you view my archives in IE the problem will recur.  But from now on, things should look appropriate.  Mom, what say you?

I’ve long had comments disabled, because the one comment i received every third week by a real reader of this site was outweighed by the literally thousands of comment spam I received each day. (Yes, you read that right.) But what I had done had not really disabled comments, I had merely clumsily prevented them from appearing. What I discovered when I had to rebuild the site is that the spam were coming in, just getting held in some dark secret database somewhere. That database reached over half a million spam when I deleted it in its entirety last week. But now they are gone forever, and if you are a real person you can feel free to email me at matthew dot whitman at gmail dot com. If you are a real person who had posted a real comment that was buried somewhere in that half a million: sorry.