new year, new look
beautiful, blogging January 11th, 2009After over a year of the black template, it was time for a change around here.
I finally stumbled across a new template that I liked, after much searching. I don’t like everything about it (specifically some of the fonts; I’m trying to figure out how to change them) and I had to change the header to keep it from changing away from the color bar to other images. The original also has a biplane, a night sky, and a Japanese rising sun, all of which have exactly nothing to do with this blog, so they’re gone now.
Nice to see a brighter, happier version of BFST, I have to admit. I loved the old design, but in these dark times I wanted something a bit more cheerful. Just one more example of my ‘Out With Crappy Old 2008, Cause Here Comes 2009!’ ethos.
I also took the opportunity to check in on Twitter and see if they’ve made any changes too. Turns out they have, as you may have noticed. I went for the Flash version this time. Let me know if you have difficulty seeing it. Actually, y’know what? I take that back. Just go download a newer version of Flash, would you? Sheesh.
I volunteered to go in to work for a couple of hours of overtime this afternoon, which I almost never do. Some people live to work, and others work to live. I’m definitely in the latter category, but this time I thought a couple hours here and there would be a good idea to improve my reputation around the office a little.
Came across a new blog today, thanks to Twitter, that I really enjoy. It’s called the list of now, and I’m adding it to my blogroll, but I also wanted to share it with you publicly and give her a little ‘shout out’ or whatever the kids these days are calling them.
Incidentally, I just realized that BFST has been around long enough that I can start doing TwoYearsAgo now. Cool.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Hi.
wow, thank you :)
I was playing blog-hop one day a few months back (went from a friend’s blog to someone on their blogroll and so on) and I don’t even remember how I got here now, you are probably 10 hops removed from someone I know or something like that.
I remember thinking, how generally I loved the title, and the idea of everything you loved being “beautiful, funny, sad and true”.
I thought about this and those are markers for my tastes very often as well. (I thought about it seeing ‘Slumdog Millionaire” recently… always describe “Angels in America” that way when I recommend it and per your twitter – it’s why that particular “This American Life” is one of my favorites as well, a perfect mix, very compelling).
So anyway, I stuck around because I like your writing style and just decided to add you on twitter this morning :) So I thought I would introduce myself (kinda).
Thanks for the shoutout!
-b