Greetings folks. Real Life has pulled me away from my computer for much of the last couple of days, so I want to drop a quick line about the recent site layout changes. We lost the right sidebar on our two main pages yesterday and rather that leave it at that I temporarily migrated everything over to the left sidebar. I say temporarily because within the next week or two we will be updating the site software and all the current bugs should be ironed out at that time. This isn't the first time we've lost the right sidebar, you old timers may remember that happening a few months ago also. Rather than beat my head against the desk trying to debug the problem I took the path of least resistance and moved it all over to the left until after the update and then we'll go back to the 3 column layout. Why put myself through that when we have an update coming up anyway?

I apologize for any inconvenience that it may bring you by squishing it all over there, but it will only be for a short time.

This is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with the "Comment List" that sits in the sidebar menu. It is exactly the same thing as the "Recent Comments" list only much easier to monitor. Peg it to your bookmarks and you're a click away from a much easier and more efficient mode of comment monitoring, it beats the hell out of having to scroll down the page to see the Recent Comment list. The same goes for the "Essay List". Give them a try and I'll guarantee you'll like it.

What I do is I put the "Essay List", the "Comments List", and the "My Comments" pages all in my Firefox bookmark toolbar and I'm a click away from easy peasy site monitoring, in real time. The bookmark toolbar is a great way to peg your favorite sites rather than using the regular bookmark menu, the bookmarks are all right there within eyesight and just one click away. Give it a whirl, especially if you're going to participate in the primary live blog tonight, you wont regret it.

Later, my friends.