So I have a new blog.
Well, it's the same blog. It just looks new.
First thing: I decided to play with HTML 5 because it's the new hip thing to do. I later found out that there's no real benefit for me to use HTML 5 tags over regular ones right now. As a result, my website is severely crippled in Internet Explorer. I'll fix that in the next day or two.
Update: I somewhat fixed things for ol' IE. The random photo banner doesn't really work past the first page-load, and there are no fancy CSS 3 rounded corners.
Second thing: The banner at the top uses photos sourced from Flickr searches using a combination of two words that are chosen at random from a pool of about two dozen. I tried to use more abstract words that might filter out photos of people. At the bottom of the page, you can see what words were chosen for the currently displayed banner photo. I spent hours on Saturday and Sunday (about 7,500 Flickr API requests in 24 hours) tweaking the list of words so that I get more interesting results. It's not perfect; I still get a lot of really bad photos. Some really good ones, but some really awful. So right now I am risking you coming to my site and seeing a completely inappropriate or confusing photo in my banner! To deal with this in the future, I've set up a little voting system where anyone can "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down" a banner photo if it's particularly good or particularly bad. I'll also take suggestions for new words to add to the pool if you've got a good one!
Update: There's now a handy tooltip at the top that links directly to the Flickr photo used in the banner. Hovering over it will tell you what tags were used. I also added the words "bokeh", "catadioptric", "vignette", and "lomography". Thanks Keith and Brent!
Other things: Everything is way more simple. I completely got rid of comments! I may bring them back, but I don't really see a purpose for my site. If somebody really has something to tell me, they can send me an email. There's no search right now, mostly because I was really excited to get my new design up and running and some features didn't make make it in yet. There are some other minor CSS things that I need to fix too.
I was just really excited to get it online, guys!