Hey, Apt. 11D has a new design. So, all you people who just read through an RSS feed come here and check it out.

I put the Apt. back in the title, because even though I dropped it five years ago, people still google "apt. 11d." It's easier for people to remember, and I'm slowly getting used to having more of a public face in the blogosphere.

I'm in the process of rejiggering my archives and simplifying the tags. I had separated the personal posts from the political posts, but that distinction never worked well for me. There is too much overlap. At some point, I will finish that task and explain everything in the "About Me" page.

I'm using more photographs and breaking up the text into separate posts, because it works best on the Internet. A hundred words and a picture is the formula that brings in the most readers. Sad, but true.

I needed a new banner. Being too cheap to invest hundreds of dollars in PhotoShop, I tried teaching myself to use banner freeware, but it was a pain. Instead, I found that Typepad has some new templates that sort of achieved the look I was going for. I can easily rotate photographs. Learning CSS is not the best use of my time, so a Typepad template will have to suffice.

So, here we are. I finally have both of my children in school, and I'm looking forward to getting caught up again on the blog and other work on my desk. Before I sort out the papers on my desk, I'm going to punch out a series of posts on the new campaign against obesity.