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Widgets

I've been tinkering with my blog a lot lately and things have been stacking up on the left side.

Per some reader feedback (Inspector) I've increased the 'recent comments' box to show the last 20 comments. But now that column is REAAALLY long. You have to scroll a ways to get to the other archives.

Our wonderful administrator, Pixy, has been saying that we're going to migrate to new blogging software in a while. At that time our templates are going to break, I think.

That said, I think I might do a whole new redesign. While I like the general idea of this one a lot, it's a little too low contrast for my tastes. I want things to be snappier and easier to read and scan. (The transparency bit on the blog posts is particularly irritating to me.)

I want to add advertising and some of those widgets like digg and all that.

PLUS, my old posts have yet to be imported. I hate that they aren't available to you or me for reference. (Can you believe I've actually been blogging since 2003?)

Anyway, I'm prattling on for no good reason. Just some thoughts I had about the direction of my blog. I just wanted to warn you about coming changes.

If there is something in particular you'd like to see on the site, let me know. I will try to look into it when I get some time. (Rachel, I haven't forgotten the RSS feed for comments. I just haven't thought of a way to do that easily.)