Since earlier this year I’ve wanted to change the theme of this blog.
I felt that it was time for a change — after all I’ve had this blog on WordPress for around five years, and mucked around with Moveable Type before that. Way back in the day I started blogging on LiveJournal — heck, I didn’t even hear the word blog for the first time until Fall 2000.
And so now, with major help from Chirag Desai I managed to get this new theme up and running and customized exactly as I want it. He helped me to understand how the theme works, so I can make changes to it myself, as well as provided timely answers to my questions by email and Skype chat. I highly recommend his services!
With Chirag’s help, I selected the Arras Theme, a very easy-to-use theme that has a nice picture rotation system up top and plays nice with Twitter and Facebook as well, adding those handy-dandy buttons up in the top right. Plus, this allows me to move the list of my radio and print pieces to WordPress pages, rather than having to edit them manually in HTML each time I want to add something.
Also, I’ve added two new photos in the upper right rotation, including the first sketch as drawn by my brother Alex and a portrait of me taken by none other than David Sasaki.
In other news, I start my new job on July 1!
Photo credit (shot from the top of the Bonn Stadthaus, very near our apartment): Matthias Zepper
