So, it’s been a little quiet around here as of late. My apologies.

First, if you’ve hanging on for dear life just to read my review of the iPhone, you’re about to be sorely disappointed because this is not it. While I may still do that someday when I’m really bored (read: not anytime soon), I feel like enough has been said already, by people who said it much better than I can. If you really want to hear my opinions, my gripes, and what to consider if you’re thinking about getting one, just ask me – I’ll be more than happy to give an answer to any/all of that.

Second, many of you want to know why I wasn’t in band Monday afternoon, and why my Facebook and Twitter statuses alluded to my having some sort of medical problem. Well… here’s what happened. I was sitting on my bike on the “porch” of Hunter Hall, waiting for Erin and Amanda to come out the door to go to one of our weekly meetings. When I saw them come out the door at the other end of the building, my brain went into some weird mode where my thought processes were in line with the thoughts of a 7 or 8 year-old… I knew they were over there, and that I was over here, and that I needed to be over there… so I proceeded to ride my bike off the 2.5 ft ledge of the porch. The problem with that was two-fold: I didn’t have enough momentum to make it work, and worse, I realized what I was doing just as I was about to roll off the edge, and I squeezed that front brake hard… too hard. Essentially what happened next was that I fell over the front of bike onto the rocky concrete below (from where I was sitting on the bike, easily 4 to 5 feet), and then the bike fell on top of me. Now, I’ve done worse – just ask my mom. I’ve had more bruises and scrapes from my shenanigans as a child than I care to remember, but that period of my life was at least a decade or more ago… so I honestly don’t know what I was thinking when I thought I could just ride off that ledge. Anyways, I scraped up my elbow, and I’ve done something to my foot, thought I’m not sure what other than that I know it’s not broken… I just can’t really put any weight on it. And that is why I wasn’t in band on Monday.

I’m not sure if anybody noticed, but the site went through a major redesign about a month ago. It was a long and arduous search to find a clean and good-looking theme I liked that I could build on, and I finally found it. ColdBlue by WebRevolutionary is a very well laid out theme, and it was relatively easy to modify the design to give it a little touch of me. If it looks weird in your browser… use a modern browser. If it still looks bad, let me know. Seriously.

But, there are a few content changes as well:

  • The Photos page still serves up my photos from Flickr and uses Lightbox to show the images in their galleries. Click on any image in an album to open the Lightbox, and then click on the left or right side of the image to go backwards and forwards (respectively) through the gallery.
  • The News page no longer shows my “dugg” stories from digg. It now shows my Newsgator clippings, which is even better. Everyday, I read tons of news in feed reader, and the clippings are news stories that caught my eye or that interested me for some reason or another. Until recently I had no way to share those clippings with anybody, but some recent changes at Newsgator now allow me to do so, which is fantastic.
    EDIT: Also, the sidebar module that showed digg stories is gone as well.
  • The Weather page is gone; if you used it, sorry.
  • The HSU page… will be back to its previous usefulness soon.
    EDIT: Actually, I don’t have time to give the ‘ole HSU page the attention it needed, so it’s gone as well.
  • The Archives have been redone, and it should be much easier to find one of my older posts, assuming you know about when it was written and/or what the title of the post was. If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, the search bar can be your friend too.
  • Colophon… is pretty much the same, with a few updates to plugins here and there.

I’ll try to crank out a post more often than once every two months; we’ll see what happens.