A new look for the blog

For a while now I've been wanting to update the look of my blog. Today I made the jump. Really, the biggest change is the addition of the right hand column. To get that, I had to update the format of the blog to the latest one Blogger supports. I was nervous about it but after doing some design testing in a test blog I created, I found I was able to make it work. Now, all of the blog links will appear on the left and closer to the top. They're there for a reason and I felt they were getting lost way down on the bottom right hand side. Let me know your thoughts as this is a work in progress.