Those of you viewing my posts on the blog itself may notice that I’ve added a handful of social media buttons to single post views. This is pretty much par for the course on most blogs, so I thought it was only appropriate that I append a few of my own. It’s not much–Facebook, for instance, is conspicuously absent, as their buttons are huge, unpleasant, and full of tracking code. But most people, myself included, probably have a personal system for sharing content to Facebook, anyway, so I just went with a Twitter, Google+, and StumbleUpon trifecta. These will probably become more useful once I start writing actual content, which is happening, I promise.

I spent some time and managed to assemble the buttons in a way that’s still valid XHTML, albeit a bit hack-y. It’s a regrettable compromise, as Google’s +1 button uses weird DOM implementation, and the only alternative is HTML5. (Twitter’s button is HTML5, as well.) Thanks to TVD at TechOctave for the base code for Twitter’s button!

I also had to go into the PHP for the Disqus plugin… again… to fix a validation error that surfaced after updating. Guys, you can make your plugin W3C-valid without my help. Promise! (That said, if you want to hire me to do it for you, I’m all ears.)

Alright, lunchtime. I’m out! Ciao, bella!

Save the occasional “cough cough hack” from this direction. Oh, internet, I could tell you tales of grand ambition… all the plans I’d made… and now I’m on day two of a cold and reduced to my current condition. Slurping hot drinks and porridge, wrapped up in quilts on my couch with Sasha (my chihuahua) and tissues and episodes of 30 Rock on Netflix.

(Is anyone buying the talk of grand ambition? No? Okay.)

Well, as long as I’m under self-imposed house arrest and mostly confined to places where I can freely fall asleep, here’s a post for you guys. And here’s a picture of Sasha.

She’s so cute. I’m a proud mama. Yes.

And here are some other things that I like recently but am too sicky to expand on just yet. Maybe later. But for now, please click and be entertained and maybe pretend that I said something neat.

• Adele – Rolling In The Deep (YouTube)
• Google Recipe View
• The iPad 2 (Engadget)

If you’ve ever wondered why one might consider making the switch from his or her current browser of choice to Google Chrome, here’s one major enticement: the only browser extension that does exactly what it promises, one hundred percent of the time.

(Thanks to the Chrome Web Store and the brilliant, awesome, funny, totally cool and sexy Chrome user community.)