still tinkering

still tinkering
 
I missed seeing the cartoons at the bottom of the page, and they really didn't take that long to load, so I brought them back.  Something else is making the page take a long time to load; I suspect the news ticker.  I'll keep tinkering with this until I get it the way I want it.
 
update: yep, it's the news ticker.  I'm going to leave it out for now, and see if I can find another small ticker; one just a little faster to use would be ideal.  Is there any way to have a news ticker without using Java?

update update:  Well, that went well.  I got rid of the news ticker, and replaced it with my own news page.  It's right in there under the "News" heading, the brand-spankin' new Robot Guy News.  It is the same headline service that I was using before, only now all the headlines are presented on a separate page.  That went so well, I may divide it up into space, robotics, general science, and other sections, each with its own link under my News heading.

update update update, last one, I promise: Well, how about that?  What started out as me being dissatisfied with the amount of time required to load this blog, led to a much better blog.  I now have my own little newsmagazine, culled from the headlines of over 300 newspapers.  Just click on the links under Robot Guy News to be redirected to the appropriate news page; the page is generated when you click on the link.
 
As a bonus, my blog loads much faster and I was able to bring all of my cartoons back; Mostly Business rejoins Day by Day, Stan'n'Isaac, and Toy Trunk Railroad, as of today.  Hmmm... I might even add more cartoons.