Cogs can think.

I’ve been pondering some massive changes on my blog. I’m not sure each of these will make it through.

• First and foremost, I want to move to a dedicated, real domain. I can use OSNews’ servers for this, so all I’d need to do is buy the actual domain name.
• I want a dedicated page for a daily photo. The reason the daily photo in my sidebar never took off as I hoped it would is because my current digital camera is a, well, piece of shit. As soon as the SLR David and his wife Beth will be sending me arrives, I promise to make the daily photo, well, daily. There’s enough crazy shit to photograph in this country.
• I want a proper navigation bar atop my blog. I’ve already done some mockup work on how it should look, and preliminary beta mockup tester Eugenia was enthusiastic about it.
• Having a navigation bar will allow me to expand my blog further by moving the Cogs to their own, dedicated page, where they will be kept forever and ever, instead of that local text file I use as a backup now.

Now, these changes may seem contradictory to my vision on what a blog should be (simplicity, elegance, cleanliness), but it actually isn’t; adding a navigation bar will make separate pages easier to navigate to (of course, the active page’s link should stand out). Of course, I will make sure it all looks clean, fits in, and is consistent.

Oh, and as you may have noticed, I’ve modified my blog’s header image yesterday. I took the same header, and applied a transparent pattern on top of it, from Squidfingers. Just so you know.