I Made Some Changes And Now You're Stuck Reading About Them

You might notice a few changes. Or you might not. I really don't know how observant you are.

• New version of the logo added at the beginning of the week. (Still a bit of a work in progress.)


• Dropped the delicious embed from the sidebar. I honestly don't add links to that often enough to warrant keeping it on the sidebar. Besides, it's still linked in my profile section for the few people who still want to access that info. Most things that I link to online are either in my daily link posts or in my Google Reader Shared Items. So as long as you read both of those, you're not missing a thing by my killing off the delicious thing.


• I moved a few things around on the sidebar. Hopefully that will speed up load times a little bit. Non-essentials like "recent comments" and my "latest google reader headlines" got dropped to the bottom of the sidebar. I was considering dropping both of those things, especially the reader bit, since that has it's own page with the full articles and pix. I'm leaving them for now though. Does anybody even look at those two things? Any feedback on that is welcome.


• I shrunk the two Amazon recommendations boxes to display 4 items each, made them narrow and put them side by side. They're also lower on the page because they seem to load the slowest out of everything on the page. (I also need to update those, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.) I've also got some other Amazon stuff in the works, because I'm a shameless whore.


• Changed the post labels to a dropdown menu, which takes up a lot less screen real estate. I considered dropping them completely from the sidebar, but then I realized that a lot of times when I browse other sites for the first time I like to check out their post categories. At some point in the near future I might add a post label cloud at the bottom of the page, since there's not very much going on down there. (Does anybody ever even usually make it that far?)


• Added Google Ads a few days ago. So please whitelist this site if you use AdBlock! Anyway, like Amazon, Google is a company I use all the time, and I don't find their ads annoying. At least as far as internet ads go anyway. It's supposed to be all keyword based, so barring any technical snafus, it should be displaying interesting links related to the stuff I mention on here anyway. Also, running ads brings me that much closer to realizing my dream of making money while wearing my pajamas nearly 24-7.

I've still got a bunch of other things that I want to do. It's just a matter of finding the time, because I tend to get obsessive and do this stuff in 12 hour blocks when I do sit down to do it. Plus I have to do everything on a test site first, because it's pretty easy to break a Blogger page if you're not careful when making customizations.