I just caught Husbands and Wives, and was reminded of Galaxy Craze.

Hard to believe someone with such a far-out name didn’t achieve stardom. Even her writing career didn’t seem to go anywhere.

Now that I’m selling space around here, I’m reacquainting myself with optimal webpage layout.

The graphic above is a distillation of study results like Poynter’s Eyetrack III. Basically, you place your ads where you know the audience’s eyeballs will linger. Cha-ching.

So I’m posting this info here, mainly for my own future reference. Click those high-heat zones!

Early this morning, Dictionary.com was screwed up and unusable. What’s a wordsmith to do?

I reached to my left, and dragged over the 1,800-page backup: The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus, American Edition (presumably less snooty than the tea-and-crumpets version).

It was quite the nostalgic feeling.

The benchwarmer performed admirably in spot duty. The page-by-page, alphabetically-arranged search function, with tabs (not tags) for quick access, allowed me to hone in on the results I needed within seconds. Not bad for six pounds of dead tree.

And the word I was looking up? “Dint”. Don’t ask.