cleaning house and making it nicer...

as you might could tell, i'm in the process of updating the blog to something a little more fanciful. short story is that i was running out of sidebar space to put stuff in, so i added one over there to the left so i could put more stuff up there. also, if you look at the last couple of posts, you can see that i have made the posts "expandable", so check for a "read more" button to get more ramblings. be back soon...