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If you’re reading this, I’ve successfully switched my web host service and updated my DNS listing. Of course, I would make the switch right during a blackout period for changing .org listings… Let me know if you see any problems.

It has become very clear that I cannot afford to devote significant writing time to this website over the coming months. Thus, a slight redesign to put less pressure on having “enough” content to warrant an entry. Yes, it’s also a bit messier, but hopefully in a cozy, home-like manner. Or something like that….

It’s been a working-vacation here, with traveling and writing and keeping up on the fight against graduate student unionization and many other stresses. For those who know why I was out of town – things have gone great. As an upshot, I actually spent two entire weeks without doing a spot of websurfing and I didn’t even miss it. This is doing great things for my productivity. And over a week of 7AM mornings has totally reset my sleep schedule. I’ve come back a whole new me. Unfortunately for you, it’s a me that wants to get work done, but I’m sure that won’t last long. And of course, through cleaning out my inbox I’ve come across a couple of items worth mentioning…

I missed the actual anniversary, but Screenshot is now four years old, my first entry having been July 24, 1998. On the list of “one of these days” projects is to go through my archives and post at least a selection of my old pre-site relocation entries. My weblogging style has certainly changed over the years – something I think reflects both an evolution of my purposes in weblogging, and changes in myself and my “real life”. To give you a taste, I dredged up my first Screenshot entry, with odd grey background and lack of awareness of other weblogs and all. Once I found the weblogging, as compared to web journalling, community, I stopped having to invent the wheel on my own quite so much.
While it’s been a slow period here in Screenshot land, I’m still enjoying weblogging and don’t plan to stop any time soon. As I said way back then, “This could be fun. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out.”

In more weblog clique-age Fairvue has updated Blog.Elements, the periodic table of weblogs, to eliminate expired weblogs and eliminate the nonexistant element 118. I’m proud to maintain my place as Chromium, the shiny fender of the weblog community.

Not much else today since I spent my surfing time cleaning up my portal. All of the dead links are now gone and I worked a few of my bookmarks in. I also noticed that Google finally has my new domain name crawled and I’m back to getting hits through them.