Update, 5:44 p.m.: Well, folks, we just couldn’t stand it anymore. We don’t know nothin’ about no code. We got the shopping cart plug-in, we got the 134 page manual from PayPal, we got the BBEdit, but danged if we can figure out how to make all that come together so as to allow people to easily purchase a subscription online. We’d be discouraged — downhearted, even — if our motto were not, Nil Desperandum.

Well, having impulsively switched over the nameserver about fifteen minutes ago, we’d better scurry around here and delete a bunch of possibly actionable stuff which we posted as we were figuring out how this baby works. See if you can find any of it before we delete it!

Earlier, That Same Day: We’re going to try to take the Shopping Cart out of the top of the left hand sidebar, and place it at the top of the right hand sidebar.

And we’re going to try to find out why PayPal keeps rejecting my attempts to slide a few bucks into the Olde Rag’s account.

Eventually, we’re even going to try to upgrade the shopping cart to accept credit cards.

But first, we’re going to stroll past this stretch of Congress Street, and have some of that nice chicken noodle soup they’ve got this week at Belle Peppers.

[Somewhat later … ] Good god what a nest of incomprehensibility. It’s a scam by the coders, we think. If you make the damned stuff incomprehensible, you can keep your wages up.

The temptation at this point is to say to hell with it and go live with this site as it is, so we can do what we actually have some clue how to do, which is crank out newspapers.