Weblog, Meet Sidelog

For those of you who haven't noticed, or are reading this through an RSS feed, or honestly could care less, I've created a new weblog.

Where is it, you ask?

Well, it's about an inch or so to the left, depending on your screen resolution. Yes, that little bundle of links I've titled "Of Interest" is actually it's own separate weblog, powered by Movable Type (like this site), and embedded within this site by PHP, to which said site has been converted (thanks, Evil Queen).

But sir, you're asking, how does this effect my Foreign Embassy viewing experience?

Why, it only enhances it! Now, rather than being forced to read only my personal meanderings, you can also view a selection of items that I've found Of Interest (hence the title) through my travels on the World Wide Web! It's a win-win situation, honestly, and I'd feel really cool and hip about it if it wasn't so, like, early 2003. But it's something I've been meaning to do for a while, and it means I no longer have to change the code of my site or create a new entry when I find something Of Interest (there it is again!) that l like to post. Plus, I post the entries using a neat little application called Kung-Log, which means I don't have to access Movable Type at all and can do updates from my desktop.

And if you've gotten this far without getting lost in a maze of hyperlinks, you'll notice I've no longer set links to open in a separate window. As far as I could tell, based on pretty much every website I visit regularly, absolutely no one does this. Is it rude? Poor taste? Elitist? Does it waste precious processing resources? I don't know. I just know that no one else does it, and maybe I should quit as well. I'm a follower, me. Make friends with the "Back" button on your browser.

In the works is an archive page for the Of Interest links, an explanation of the photographs used in the site header (yes, they're mine), and even, yes, an "About" page! Another thing that I've been meaning to do for a while, since, if nothing else, it'll give me an always-welcome opportunity to write about myself in third person.