the corner office

Aaaand I did it again. Months and months of blog posts but it's been forever since I actually pushed my website from my computer to the web.

This time around the initial reason for holding off was deciding whether to keep the (long) story about the apricot jam sandwich (it didn't make the cut, sorry). But I was also aware that with all the photos I was adding, and some of the posts and reviews I was writing, and planning to write, the front page of the blog was becoming something of a wall of text and photos, overwhelming and a little unkind to anyone opening the front page using a slow data connection.

I decided it was time to break with the old layout, over 20 years old, and change the front page and blog summary pages to just list blog entries by their titles. Hopefully not too controversial to long-suffering and long-time readers (hello, dear!) Each blog post always has links to the previous and next posts, so it's still easy to navigate through them.

Actually making the change took forever. Late last year, I'd started tinkering on a rewrite of the software used to generate this blog, this time using Python. So in February, I figured I may as well make the changes using the new code. The new version could barely do anything yet, but I'd have it all done in no time, right? Right? Nope. Adding entries was more fun than polishing up a blog generator, life was getting in the way, and all the while I was adding more and more photos, so admitting defeat and pushing everything using the old layout felt like an antisocial thing to do. Next weekend, next weekend.

But at long last, it's done. I'm caught up, the blog looks a little different, and from now on, I have the very best intentions of syncing my blog to the web as soon as I've written something. The very best, I promise.