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This is just a quick entry to keep all of you (my loyal fans) on the up-and-up regarding the goings-on here at JA. I still have more to say regarding Gnomedex, but this entry isn’t going to be it. :)

Goings-On Alpha: Another Skin Introduced
Those of you who have waited patiently for a new skin have been rewarded for your patience: a new skin, Gazette, has been introduced. Gazette is intended to look like an online newspaper, such as the New York Times, whose site I used for inspiration. The skin is also my first real attempt at using absolute positioning to rearrange my menus. The ’search’ menu has been moved from the sidebar to the top of the screen, without touching a single line of my HTML. I may tweak this skin a bit yet, but I wanted to get it out to you all. This way, any (helpful!) comments can be taken into consideration for future revisions.

Goings-On Beta: Blogrolling Gold
In a move entirely contrary to my nature, I’ve paid for a piece of software I use and consider valuable. :) I’m an official member of the Blogrolling Gold club, which means that for $20 a year, I get to have greater control over my Blogroll. I doubt you notice a change right away (though the code has changed a bit), but the ~opportunity~ for change is now there. :) Multiple blogrolls and even facerolls are now within the realm of possibility.

Goings-On Gamma: Gnome-Girl Added
Take a gander at my blogroll, and you’ll see a new link: Gnome-Girl. I’ve been reading Gnome-Girl’s blog off-and-on for nearly as long as I can remember, but I’ve never linked to her for the same reason I waited so long to link to Chris Pirillo’s blog: they’re both already too damned popular for their own good. *grin* However, I met Gnome-Girl at Gnomedex, and I came to the realization that I like her as a person, popular or not. Even more significantly, she’s a real human being, and not just a conglomeration of random text. So nyah. I’ll probably be adding a couple of more links that I check out more-or-less daily in the next few days.

Goings-On Delta: Da RSS Feed (sorry, I needed a ‘D’)
I was inspired by Chris Pirillo’s talk on RSS at Gnomedex, so I spent this morning working on my RSS feed. I’ve had RSS .93 and 1.0 for a while, but they were just the default feeds generated by MovableType. This morning, I scrapped them both, and figured out my own template for RSS 2.0. Those of you with feed readers (news aggregators) should be fine subscribing to http://www.rootarcana.com now. :)

That’s all for now. I’ve got a busy day at work today, so I ought to get started. Hopefully, I’ll have time later to talk a bit more about Gnomedex. Later this week, I may even have some pictures to post.