Please note, this post is out of date. Please see here for more recent information about my layout.

I’ve been quiet the last week or so except for a few brief repostings of newsfeed items on the side there. Reasons for that? *shrug* Laziness? I have been working on the back end around here a bit–upgrading to WordPress 2.2, figuring out how to get my sidebars to work with the newly integrated widget system they’ve got (not sure I’m totally loving that, by the way), trying and so far failing to get the Last.fm widget to fit into the sidebar, giving up on that and playing around with the new Facebook applications instead, etc.

I will note a few things that might not be immediately noticeable around here. The “pages” linked on the left side of the page–these are like static posts that I update now and again with what I’m reading, watching, etc. Some of these things are also in the “Now Watching” and “Now Reading” sections in the right sidebar. However, the sidebar only keeps the last three or four entries on there, while the pages have everything back to my last recap update. Right now I’m way behind on the recaps, so the reading/watching pages go back to March. I mention this mostly because I’ve started doing the reading/watching pages in an image format, and I think it looks cool. Also, you can see my media consumption goals for 2007 over there, and how I’m doing on those. Not that anyone probably cares about this but me, but I sometimes think it’s fun to see what other people want to watch and read, so here’s what I want to watch and read this year. Finally, over there is a page called Writing. Here’s where I’ve linked most of the essays and stuff I’ve written over the past year for school.

The newest thing I’ve added to the ol’ sidebar is an RSS feed from my Tumblr. Tumblr is sort of a media-blogging application, I guess you’d say…one step up from Twitter‘s micro-blogging approach, but focused on collecting brief snippets of text, audio, video, etc. in a very simple format. I’m partially just trying it out, but it’s kinda fun, so I may keep using it. We’ll see. In any case, it seemed to be a good compromise for the moment between the amount of videos and photos and stuff I want to in some way mark as cool and the amount of videos and photos and stuff I want to actually post on here. Because when I go on a media rampage, I could get incredibly spammy incredibly quick, and nobody wants that. So that’s the compromise.

Oh, and lastly, the Amazon.com banner down there now only shows things that I’ve specifically told it to. So you can rest assured that when it says I recommend it, I really really do. Although I need to update it, because I haven’t since…February? Maybe?