As one who has gotten much pleasure and info reading your blog all this time, I hope you can change the format around a bit.

Does it suck? Alas, almost, and, I say that as a friend.

Some of the more annoying trolls seem to have poof disappeared and if that’s because of a new filtering system, then the site has already earned a kudo or three on technicalities.

I’m remembering, though, why I quit reading comments on LGF.

Now that’s off my chest, I’d like to pull a Doug and throw something into the pot that’s off-topic simply because I have seen no follow-up or commentary about it since I first read the blurb on Monday. If the following story is true, then do we not care?

BAGHDAD – A disgruntled local official opened fire Monday on U.S. soldiers attending a municipal council meeting southeast of Baghdad, killing two of them and wounding four other Americans, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

The assailant died in a hail of gunfire after the attack, which occurred in the town of Madain, also known as Salman Pak, about 15 miles south of Baghdad in an area with a history of Sunni-Shiite tension.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Regardless of how you alter or arrange your page, someone is bound to find that the changes some like others have a problem with. You cannot and will not please everyone. There are positives and negatives to every change, regardless.

For my part, since I wear bifocals, I tend to favor the print size you have now. It’s not too big and not too small. Just right. I am not distracted by the other items on the page. At the old site you had some of those too. I didn’t mind them and sometimes it’s nice to know who your sponsors are. If they are selling something I may be interested in, I may just give them my business.

I think most of us today are used to web pages that have these elements. Change is inevitable and people can adapt. The most important thing is that the site works for you and makes financial sense for you. If there are few complaints, then you are ahead of the game.

However you’d like to format it, and whatever time it takes to get facile with it’s tools, the new site works for me. Everyone seems a bit quiet so far, but that will change, which leads me to wonder…does that esteemed PJM bunch over there on the edge know about your scurvy crew?

Congrats on the move to PJM. I have read your thoughts voraciously for several years. It could not have happened to someone more deserving. To bastardize a tag line from Sean Hannity, “You’re a great Australian”.

Howdog

I blame formerspook for being presumptuous enough to adopt the trademark blogspot harbour layout!

feedburner’s feed is ok, sorts the full-width graphic issues, don’t think it carries comments though:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/pjm/richardfernandez

also, ‘PRIZES’ are good, but where’s the graphic to buy a history and history in the making bumper sticker?

(btw any Belmont readers know wth happened with the long-dark Kent’s Imperative? Or did that move here too?)

I’ll size my graphics smaller in the future. It’s all I can do for now.

The only way I can see the map is to expand my browser across two screens, is there a way to add a scroll bar to your posted images or better yet shrink the size of the two sidebars on the right side ?

Also I find the new font harder to read than the old one.

With less time to spend on the internet than ever this site is still my most important read.