The web site has an updated look! Changes include a softer color for all borders with some solid borders converted to dashed borders; eight new banners selected randomly at page-load time; and the elimination of several longstanding formatting bugs present since the site's inception. The update was inspired by professional looking pages of personal websites I've discovered in recent months. Notable sites being Brad Hopkins, thetoms, and Martin Rebas.

The site still requires an advanced browser for the graphics to render correctly. As one would expect, Safari and Mozilla users will have excellent results, while users of Internet Explorer will have marginal results.

Adobe Photoshop in MacOS X was used to create the new banners for the website, breaking with my long-standing, exclusive use of open-source, linux-based software to design and run the website. Photoshop was required to create a banner spelling my name in Japanese with Unicode Katakana characters. Unfortunately, such a task is too much for the current version of The Gimp. (It's open source. Wait a few months.)

The Iconographic Calendar is now online. Iconography is a pictorial journal, where every day a new picture is added to the calendar on the day that it is taken. Although still in beta testing, the calendar has been brought online ahead of schedule to chronicle my last two weeks in New Mexico, my travel across country, and my new home in San Francisco.