New look. New blog. New year (almost). The original thought was that I’d work on changing the look of this thing a little bit each day, and I would eventually finish in time by New Year’s, giving this a facelift for 2006. Once I started fiddling around though, I couldn’t stop. When I got a look that I sort of liked, I couldn’t wait until Jan 1 to start using it. So, even though it’s not quite the new year yet, here’s the new look.

The change goes deeper than the look. The complete overhaul comes from the change in the engine behind the look. I’ve given up eblogger for good and moved on to WordPress. The old blog is still around, and is accessible. I’ve ported the entries from this month and last month to this new world. Everything older, you’ll have to go to that link.

So what’s actually different?

• You’ll notice the new “search blog” function on the sidebar.
• There are now categories for posts (I’m still figuring out the best set of these).
• Wordpress offers a lot more flexibility in styling, and it is quite easy to maintain and/or change the styling (I’m big on that).
• This whole thing is now run entirely off of my domain, complete with my own database.
• It’s sweet.