Hey ya’ll,

Unless you’re really not paying attention, you’ll notice a few changes to the look and feel of the blog. There’s a big new logo at the top, for example, where before there was only plain text.

I’m not married to the logo — just whipped it up in a couple of hours based on the placeholder I’d been using on Facebook and Twitter — but I don’t hate it either. Ditto with the yellow-green colour that was a random “hey, that ain’t too bad” accident. I hope to tweak everything further over the next little while.

So I’m interested in hearing your comments about the new look — like it, hate it, don’t care — but I’m just starting a little bit of an experiment, so if there’s anything you’d like me to try, I’ll try it.

The biggest change, from a personal satisfaction standpoint, is that the main column is substantially wider. I think this will give prominence to pictures and to videos that we post — and it will enable me to post video clips that are a standard 640 pixels wide, rather than manually sizing them down all the time. Grrrr.

But if it’s so wide that it’s screwing up your screen — or if I’ve broken anything else for you — please let me know.

The impetus for these changes, by the way, is because Absurd Intellectual just had its biggest month ever. After starting the year with a bang in January and March, we tailed off quite a bit through the spring. But I’ve tried to up the posting a little bit, lately, and it seems to be working. For example, we had more hits just last week than we had in all of August last year.

It’s not enough to get us ranked on Alexa, of course (oh wait, we are — we’re ranked 1,091,993rd in the world!) but it’s more than enough to make me happy — and it’s far more than I anticipated ever attracting.

It’s flattering, it’s humbling — and if you’re reading this, thanks!

Just figured with so many of you around, it was time to neaten the place up.