the long-delayed and much-needed revamp of the whole blog layout and software is about to get underway over the next several days... during that time, the blog may be down or quite unusable. im going to take this opportunity to do a lot of stuff that ive been needing to do, like go to a pure css layout, rework the whole templating engine for the software, get the thing using subversion (the source is already in subversion but im manually copying updates over because ive been too lazy to clear out the server copy and check it out from subversion), switch everything over to jquery from my own now-outmoded javascript library, and more...

the difference to you, dear reader, will be undetectable if i do everything correctly. however, it will allow me to do stuff ive been WANTING to do but cant, so there will be some more visible stuff coming after i get everything transitioned. this will also allow the software to be useful for other people who want it (ive got at least one who has asked for it, but cant use it currently because it wasnt designed with portability in mind), and should also improve indexing of the site contents in google et al.

anyhow, bottom line, dont worry if the site goes away for a bit... it isnt permanent, and doesnt signify anything major beyond my semi-regular desire to keep things updated with current techniques and technologies.