Although I was fond of this blog’s extremely spare appearnace (I thought of it as the “letter from the gulag” style), I was eventually persuaded it wasn’t too user friendly. So we’ve tried to keep it uncluttered (I think that makes it easier to read) while making navigation tools easier to find. The blog was down for about an hour Saturday evening (oddly, not due to these changes but weird side effects from mucking with mail settings). I hope no one was inconvenienced.