# 2338
For far too long I've hung onto the old Blogspot format, frankly just a little afraid that if I upgraded I'd run into some horrible bug that would crash my entire site.
Today, after setting up a new blog and seeing just how nifty the new Blogspot blogger tools really were, I decided to take a chance.
As you can see, my sidebar has been cleaned up and reorganized. Some dead links have been removed, while other links have been moved around a bit. Hopefully I haven't made too much of a mess of it.
The biggest changes you will notice are the `live updates' of five of my fellow blogger's sites and the BabelFish website translator widget.
I've limited the live updates to five blogs for now to see how much this slows down the loading of the site. I may move one or two more into that list as time goes by.
The BabelFish web site translator is a bit of an experiment. I'd appreciate feedback from people on it. I'm certain that these translations are pretty rough, and some of my English idioms probably don't translate well.
By clicking on the appropriate flag you can translate this blog to :
- French
- German
- Dutch
- Greek
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Simplified Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
I've added a reminder and alerts section at the top of my sidebar, and have moved my bio information towards the bottom. By now, everyone must be tired of seeing my ugly mug pop up anyway.
I've added several more ways to get RSS feeds from this site as well.
Archived posts are now accessible from a drop-down menu. Nice, but it's a shame the last dozen or so blog links are no longer displayed.
Hopefully the result is a cleaner, faster loading, more accessible, and easier to read page.
