The Lair

Unless you’ve never visited the website proper and just read the RSS feed, you would have noticed some changes from yesterday night. I’m experimenting with a change in layout. I’m ambivalent about the change at the moment, so a reversion to the old setup is a distinct possibility.

There was a time when I’d actually find it hilarious to dissect a few random newstories or links every day and construct a post out of it. If getting a lot of traffic was more a concern, that’s probably the way to go. Commentary on topical events drives traffic, as lots of news aggregator sites will attest. It’s still funny to do this from time to time, but the focus of what I ramble on about now has subtly shifted (and become more boring, in a way).

But I still have interesting, weird and bizarre links to share, so I wanted a link manager to post these items into the blog anyway. Far less commentary, innuendo, punnery and sarcasm than before – but the links remained. They even have a separate RSS feed here. Except they were tucked away inside a small widget – in a page that was already filled with text. Not a great believer in gratuitous use of whitespace, am I?

So I’ve moved the snippets links into the main body of posts. They still won’t appear in the main post feed, but the posting chronology is now synchronized with the main entries on the blog. That’s a fancy way of saying that snippets and blog entries are now intermingled and appear in chronological order. Still don’t like the spacing between entries and sundry aesthetic details, but there you go.