Those of you who read this blog regularly, if there are such people, will notice a few changes. I spent a few hours last night in a frenzy of HTML markup, giving this site a facelift. You’ll notice two major changes, apart from the new layout, which I admit is too wide for many screens. I’ll trim it down in the coming days.
Firstly, I changed the title from “Automaton: a blog of a cubicle dweller” to simply “Cubicle Dweller”. As a technical writer, I enjoy making things more concise. It’s one of the few things that bring meaning to my life.
Secondly, My name no longer appears on the site. This is something that has been brewing on my mind for several days now, prompted in part by a blog entry on Chris Taylor’s blog, DailyBlah.com, and in part by a blog entry on Escribitionist.com.
There seem to be three kinds of bloggers out there: those who don’t care much about privacy and anonymity, and put their name and photo all over their blog, like Chris Taylor; those who wish to be anonymous, and avoid revealing their name, photo, or other details, like Escribitionist; and those who really haven’t thought about it and do a mix of both. If you have visited my site before, you know that I was more like the first of those three. Now I’ll just remain semi-anonymous… for a while.
Anyway, if you haven’t visited here before, hello. I’m usually at least a little more entertaining than this. It’s an off-day when I can’t muster even just a little bit of sarcasm.
If you’re a returning reader… um… hi… again.