KC Rants and Raves and Blogs...

My friend Kacey started a blog. So I hooked him up with a link. I am sure it will be an interesting read.

Changes

I made some changes to the blog today. While exploring various things I found that some old Blogger features had been improved. I decided to take advantage of the updates and streamline some things:

The Labels tag cloud is now just the default Labels widget with the cloud option turned on.

I added the search widget (actually did that a while ago).

I removed the Blogger Navbar since it's functionality was now redundant.

I changed the colors of the title area.

Overall I think it looks a little cleaner.

Look and Feel

I have been tinkering with how the blog looks lately (mainly the header). I am still not happy with it, so I'll probably be tinkering some more.

Label Cloud

I have added a new Label Cloud to the blog for displaying the labels. Like Pig-pen's cloud it hovers around all the time, just over there on the right. 

The code only took a second to cut and paste. I think it looks pretty good and it does its job in a reasonable amount of space.

A New Day

Well I have been using my own blog software, for a long time, but I have to say it looks like that era is coming to an end (at least for most things). The various packages out there seem to have matured to the point where they are going to be useful.

First Post!

/obligatory