Paul F. Olson

A Journal of Miscellany and Disorder

A brand new look for a brand new year.

Thanks to all of you for sticking with me this far. I look forward to seeing you (and hearing from you) often in 2008!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Okay, I’m fairly comfortable in officially announcing this as “the new look” for the site. I like it, the comments you’ve sent me have been favorable, and all in all it seems to be working well.

I owe a huge hug to my sister for finding an odd problem on the comment form, one I never would have found myself since … well, I generally don’t make a habit of commenting on my own posts. It seems the button to submit comments was trying to send them somewhere else, somewhere way out on the dark side of cyberspace. But that’s all fixed now. Needless to say, if anyone comes across any other glitches, be sure to let me know.

I’m sure I’ll be doing some more tinkering behind the scenes in the coming days, but the big, noticeable changes should be done. So we can now return you to your regular programming.

And just for the record: this is what my “Plan B” design would have looked like. Did I make the right choice?

Why, yes, the blog does look different. Thank you for noticing.

For several reasons, technical, practical and aesthetic, I’ve been working on a redesign for this site. At this point, everything appears to be in order and seems to be working.

As a warning, though, the layout you’re looking at now may not actually be the final version. I’m hemming and hawing, torn between two quite-different themes which both accomplish the things I’ve been trying to do. In fact, if you dropped in at just the right moment yesterday, you might have seen the other design, which I put up several times for comparison purposes. You might see it again over the next week or so. In other words, don’t be surprised if the appearance of these pages changes back and forth a bit. It’s not a technical disaster, and it’s not a permanent state of flux. It’s just me being indecisive. I promise to finish this off as quickly as possible.

In the meantime, please drop me a note and let me know what you think. Look all right? Feel good? Also, click around a bit, check the archives, search, dig. If you find something that doesn’t look or work right, shout. I’d appreciate it.