Thank you for your kind welcome, etaoin. (I remember etaoin shrdlu, but have forgotten its origin just now.)

I agree, it can be fun and challenging to work within limitations, but the websafe palette is so darn GREEN, and a good deal of uncanny cat-eye green at that. Thus the mock-heroic, tongue-in-cheek tone of my "ode."

May I suggest, if others wish to play, the roolz to be:

1.Sonnet form, with mild variation if desired
2. Vertical acrostic formed by the theme
3. The theme to be an unexpected object of hommage