New search box on every page, found stage left. I always meant to get around to making one, then Hannah beat me to it, so I totally cribbed her HTML. Thanks, Hannah.

New sporadically-updated desktop snapshot stage right. My current wallpaper is a larger version of one of today's "things around the apartment" photo series. You can get it in larger 1280x1024 and 1024x768 sizes. whee!

Don't distribute them without attribution, please.

In addition, usability and accessibility primping is underway. I'm working on a more thorough implementation of CSS and implementing many of the recommendations in diveintomark's 30 days to a more accessible weblog that I hadn't already done myself or had taken care of for me by Antville's software. I highly recommend this series of articles for anyone looking to improve the accessibility of their site.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see, and what you think of the new changes.

A few changes around here.

First, you'll notice that articles now have their topics displayed above the posting date on the right. You can click there to see other articles in that topic. I'm trying to do a better job of assigning everything to a topic so this feature will be more useful.

Second, there's a new pile of useless site blurb text in the upper tier of the left-hand column. This is because Google is very stubborn about how it does site descriptions. When looking for important content it starts at the top left and works its way deeper from there. Consequently, my site description tends to be predominantly composed of little bits of the calendar. Hopefully the Google bait will improve my search results and make them a bit more enticing.

Update: In a bizarre twist, just as I am searching Google for my site so I can paste in an example of the ugly site description I am getting, I find it is different from the listing I had 5 minutes ago. Now they are actually quoting my META description tag. Once again, Google proves baffling from the webmaster's viewpoint. I'll leave the Google-bait up for a few days until I'm satisfied this more elegant description is persistent, just in case.

Blogchalking seems awfully fresh for me to be involved in it. And I might have argued that the Globe Of Blogs directory approach is a more sensible approach to geographical categorization of Blogs. But that site is on hiatus, and I recall it being very slow when I visited prior to the hiatus.

So, what the hey. I'll give it a go.

I do, however, think that it isn't really "chalking" unless the icons indicate most or all of what the keywords indicate. I.e. there should be icon variations for region, frequency of time online, bandwidth, etc. Right now all you get is a user-selected color and a vaguely gender-identifying icon.

Right, then. Here's my keyword post:

Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, United States, Austin, TX, Downtown, Jonathan, Male, 26-30!