don’t be alarmed

Those of you that visit my site directly, let’s call them less technologically inclined friends. You know who you are because I maintain your computers, or your parents computers, or your 90 year old friends computers.

Anyway, if you don’t use RSS feeds to read blief you may notice a change.

It isn’t your web browser. It isn’t your monitor. It isn’t a hacker.

It is me, changing my theme for the first time ever I think? It started out as an update to the software to allow my iPhone the ability to post things with pictures. That took about five minutes and then…scope creep.

Then I figured I should add my new twitter feed into the side-bar for some nice integration. That didn’t work because I didn’t update my software far enough. So I went all the way to the newest version. Ten more minutes.

Then I thought, since I am in here, why don’t I look at some of the cool new minimalist themes…15 minutes of looking around. Cool! I like this one. Simple, clean, fast.

Done…but you know, I said to myself

if that blockquote thing was any more obnoxious I don’t know what is.

45 minutes later I hacked little teensy pieces of just about every bit of this theme. Things you will never even see. It is a very nice theme by the way, laid out in a very understandable way. Many thanks to the author.

But I digress.

Ack! MORE scope creep!

So then I get back to the cool sidebar thingie where I add my twitter feed…oh yeah, forgot my primary audience for this post) That thing on the right side that says ‘blief tweets’ – that is an automatically included bit of information from an entirely different site where I post very small bits of stuff every once in a while, sometimes pictures. It is really easy to use but since I have the ability to post stuff directly to this blog now…maybe I don’t care anymore about that thing. Time will tell.

And then when all was said and done, I stepped back and said, it is good.
AND REALLY DIFFERENT

So, I had to write this post to let you all know that I meant to do it.
And yes, I will work on getting my nifty header pictures back in there somehow…yes with Mermaid shoes and all.

Mermaid shoes? Does that even make sense?

Ayyyyy! See what I mean?

Coupla hours and 400+ words later and I am really tired – all because of a simple, push-button upgrade.