The black is gone.

As I've mentioned before, the black-on-black template that the site's used since March of '09 and the logo were temporary.

In addition to the new color scheme and the new logo/mascot -- with hair! -- I've dropped the third column and reworked the content in many of the panels.

I've also installed a new comments module because the old one made a mess under the new template. The new module is pretty barebones, but it meshes nicely with the theme. I have my fingers crossed that it's not easily exploitable by spam-bots.

I'm not totally happy with the hair on the mascot, so that may be replaced in the coming weeks or months, but otherwise I'm feeling pretty happy with the current design and expect to keep it for awhile.

All of the old articles have still not made it back. I'm only up to mid-2005. I've got around 150 more pages to port to Joomla. It's a painful and slow process, but it'll get done... some day.