Outer Rim Territories

Musings, ramblings, and nonsense from the fringe of space and time
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Blog Changes

Okay folks... You may have noticed some changes to the blog. It was somewhat of an unintentional change but a welcome one. For many it should be more readable and useful. Some new features are: Posts are tagged making it easy to find similar topical posts You can see our recently listened tracks in the middle panel as well as the top artists for the week The middle pane features three recent "Asides". These are simple quotes or question topics for you to consider, sometimes without explicit answer. Most often these are ideas I just don't have time to develop right now. The bottom panel has the last 10 posts and the last 15 comments. If you want to receive email updates of the comments to a post, write a comment. :) There will be bug fixes and such over time. I like the simplicity and power of this layout so will probably stick with it for a bit.

Posted March 13, 2006 by Christopher Gillespie 
Mar 14, 2006
Tom B. said...
Looks great! Emails coming through just fine. Glad the 2nd quarter went well. Back in town, will try to say hi the next couple of days.

I leave on the 21st, and want to get my OT correspondence course handed in before I leave.

Mar 22, 2006
ghp said...
It does look good. Mighty good! ;)

I'll have to check out Squible & see if how I think it stacks up to K2. What made you want (or need) to change?

Two notes:
1) You might want to think about moving your blogroll to the front page, if only because it helps with where folks rate in the rankings at places like TTLB.

2) Your blogroll entries seem to be pointing to the actual rss/xml feeds rather than to the blogs themselves, which can be frustrating for folks who click on the links.

All in all, though, a top-notch redesign!

-ghp

Mar 26, 2006
Christopher Gillespie said...
K2 was fine but I deleted some critical files (and my backups!) Ouch!

There is a link to the blogroll on the main page. Perhaps you are right. I'll have to figure out how to add the blog roll somewhere someday.

Yeah, I'd like to go through and update all the blog roll wiht new entries but, you know... sem life occupies most my day.