So I have a big 15 page paper due next Friday, and unfortunately for me but fortunately for readers everywhere I spent a chunk of time procrastinating by redesigning this website. You could also say that it’s something like a 2-year anniversary-of-blog birthday present. Feedback much appreciated!

Some of the changes!

• Most impressively, the site is now available in thirteen additional languages thanks to Angsuman’s great Translator Plugin Pro. Some of the automatic translations are pretty ghastly, some are decent, but all should help at least somewhat to make the site more accessible to people around the world. Try it out for yourself using the flags in the sidebar!
  • Supported languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified and Chinese
• New theme: BloggingPro with some modifications (ongoing–will change color and graphics more as time goes on, hopefully waiting until after finals…)
• New ’share this’ functionality allows you to e-mail posts without leaving the site and also gives you the ability to share on Facebook, Digg, wherever you like. If something you use is missing, let me know–I limited the options for aesthetics but can add if I took away some weird service people like.
• You can now edit your comments for five minutes after you make them! Long enough to correct typos, short enough to avoid excessive retractions in discussions. Hopefully this will encourage people to comment!!!
• Nice e-mail subscription form! If you hate or fear RSS but want to get updates with every post I make, check it out in the sidebar.

And perhaps more surprises hidden around the site! Go check them out! Tell your friends!

I’ll try to make time for a couple posts this week, for real, too–I have a lot of things I am itching to write about!