I totally took a break from posting—without warning. I hope you’ve mused in your head over what I’ve been doing otherwise.

Was I doing…

Should I mention we’ll be spending an entire week in a house with (almost) my entire family?

See you in one week.

In which I institute a new theme, Educed, and promise to try really, really hard to leave it for at least the remainder of the year. Because seriously, can’t I keep the same design for at least 6 months?

WordPress 2.5 was released Saturday and I upgraded this evening. I was able to play around with the new admin interface before upgrading thanks to Chris Johnston’s WP Demo Site. The interface is much more streamlined and quite slick with plenty of whitespace and a light blue color scheme:

So far I can only [...]

There are several reasons as to why I haven’t posted in over (let’s check…) 20 days (geeze), but the overarching theme is that I just haven’t wanted to.
Prerogatives, malaise, and all that.
And indeed, you are seeing a new design. I need less clutter.

I hate seeing this when I open Thunderbird:

All but three were spam. I use Spamihilator, which at least keeps the crap out of my inbox. I think I’ve been neglecting getting updated versions, so that’s my plan after I post this.
I also had 97 comment spams stuck in Akismet.
What is it with these [...]

Things are messed up around here.
My previous theme generated errors with the new version of WordPress, and this theme seems to be having problems with the comments — when you submit your comment the box entirely disappears into itself. (Then again, this may just be how it operates now.)
Anything else I’m not [...]