My site has definitely changed a bit recently. The most obvious part was probably the complete change in the appearance of the site, but there are some pretty fundamental architecture changes as well. First and foremost, I switched from a MovableType platform, with static pages, to a Wordpress platform with 100% dynamic content. The downside to this is that there is a hit to the database with every page hit. The upside is the complete lack of “rebuilds” where a bunch of pages get rewritten each time a template changes. The other upside is the plugin-friendly design of Wordpress, which allowed me to set up a better anti-spam system (without a CAPCHA for each comment) and a tags system to replace my stale category system. Not to mention the completely open-source nature of Wordpress, which allows me more liberties with the design along with the guarantee that it will always be free. Watch for more improvements to the interface as I play around with some javascript to clean up the presentation, and get ready for some other web apps I’m playing around with (MediaWiki and Mambo are ready to go, I’m still deciding if there’s really a market for them at this point).

Update: The newest change was today’s addition of expand/collapse sidebars to clean up the presentation of links and such. You can now click the [+/-] on the sidebar items to expand and collapse the sections. You can also now feast your eyes on the Deep Thought of the day. Come back regularly to see a new Deep Thought.