Life and Times

With the recent reboot, I decided to go with a different theme than the old Life and Times, which I think is only fair. And so I’ve been playing around with some of the plugins, widgets, and whatnot that WordPress oh-so-conveniently makes available to its bloggers.

The end result is a ton of functionality that wasn’t in the old blog, a lot of stuff that I’ll no doubt get tired of sooner or later and no longer update when the mood strikes me. The About page, for instance, was thrown together with a minimum amount of thought or effort put into it — and it shows.

But there are other fun things that I probably will use, like the Asides mini-blog to the right, in the second column. It’s now full of one-off comments to myself about the general nature of the Life and Times rebuild, but I imagine someday it will be where I make one-off comments about my day, or about Hillary Clinton’s hair, or about some other thing that isn’t worthy of its own 1200-word main page entry.

I added a feed to my Flickr photostream, which has rarely been updated lately, but for which I have big plans now that it’s on my blog’s front page. (The veracity of this statement is in question, for sure.) And last but not least, down the bottom of that third column I’ve got an RSS feed for my tumblr mini-blog — where I showcase all the LOL-worthy pictures and videos I stumble across.

So there you have it. Lots of fun stuff for me to continue playing around with and maybe it’ll keep me interested for longer than it otherwise would have.