Despite my claim that I run some pretty good web sites, for a living, I haven't given this one a new design since I started it, back in September of 2002. Some web master I am, right? My excuse is that I'm a content person. No, I'm not in a state of peaceful happiness — I focus on the information on a web site. How a site looks doesn't matter if there's nothing good to read. And I am a lazy slug, after all. But I finally decided to make a change, so here we are.

As a reader, you will notice a couple of things: the presentation now has what's known as a "fixed-width" format, so if your web browser window is really big the text columns don't grow wider to fill it, since that can make the page hard to read. The font size is also a little bigger, since some of us (um, that would be me) apparently need to get reading glasses soon.

The other big change is that I've opened up comments. I've gotten enough private messages over the past few months (thanks!) that it seemed like a nice idea to open The Finster Log up to my readers. You are still welcome to write me private notes (on the "Contact" link), but now you can also leave comments for everyone to read, and, you know, comment on.

The illustration in the top left corner will probably change, I'm just not sure how yet. I know, I know, if you're going to use an illustration it should be a good one, and you shouldn't put a rough draft up on your web site. But I've been fussing over it for too long. And besides, you just can't go wrong with Tumbly Finsters.

I'll probably tweak a few other things, but I'm pretty sure that the new site is functioning properly now. Let me know if you notice something weird, though, would you?

Here's hoping you and the ones you love get lots of tasty seeds in 2007.