I made archives! Real ones! I say a little bit about why on my archives page, so there is no need to duplicate it here, but I am excited about requiring a half hour if I want to find a post I made "some time in 2001." And about having most of the stuff I'd be upset about losing stored somewhere other than LiveJournal's servers. Plus, I thought there was some chance that having navigable archives might actually be of some use to others. If you missed The Chardonnay Diet or A Visit to the Oracle the first time around, you know where to find them.

I'll be updating the archives once a month or so. If you'd like to receive email notification when I update the site, you can sign up on my main page. I'm the only one who sees that list, and I promise not to sell your name to the people who send out enormous volumes of Wallace Stevens spam. I'm sure they exist. I get Cubism spam all the time; the modernists are onto this Internet thing.

I made a number of other changes, as well: First, I would like to bid a fond farewell to my guestbook, which has served me well for some time now. However, since there are now approximately 7 million different spots on my site where people can comment if they want to, the guestbook seemed unnecessary.

Second, I moved many of the links that appear in the "others" section of my pages to a "more links" page. The bar was just getting too friggin long. Most of the people still in the "others" link box are people who don't have livejournals, or people who do have livejournals, but who update their sites regularly with content they don't include in their journals. It's not about how much I like you, okay? You're still linked. I just needed my navigation system to start being useful again. If you're not still linked, it's because I screwed up. Please let me know if that's the case. If you were never linked, it's because I'm too lazy to click around enough to get the necessary details. If you have a site you'd like me to link, please leave a comment and point me to it.

Finally, I added a search feature to the site. It seems to work well so far, but you should know that it does not index the photography pages or anything hosted on livejournal's servers. This is because the search engine only indexes movable type content. I do think the idea of setting up the necessary templates to update the photo pages through movable type is a nice idea, but it will take a fair amount of time to set them up, and I just don't feel like it at the moment. Besides, those pages are easy enough to navigate visually. I'll switch them over eventually, but not now.

And I do believe that's it! Whew.