Having had some time to play again on the site, I made several changes to the way the site functions, and what you can do here including:

• Anonymous posting re-enabled - you don’t have to be a logged in member of the site to post. If you want to ‘claim’ your identity you can still register, but if you just stumbled upon the site, you can now fill in a Nickname, and email address, and answer a challenge question to post a comment.
• I upgraded and integrated my Photo Gallery into the blog. The theme is the same color, and a little block of three random images from the gallery appears in the sidebar. (update 1/4 - I have removed this block because it makes the main page take almost 9 seconds to load!). This is what I removed:
  
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  Clicking an image will take you to the gallery. You can click on the in8sworld logo to return or navigate through the gallery using the ‘breadcrumbs’ at upper right. This integration also will allow me to easily include images posted in the gallery in the blog, and automatically link back to the full version (and more notes). This will hopefully drive me to post more images in those gallerys than I have been doing of late.

• [Removed because it slowed the site to a crawl] Added a new ratings feature so that readers can select between 1 and 5 skulls (1 is bad, 5 is good) for each story. I don’t know if anyone will use this feature, but it might help me decide what people like to read about, or what I am doing well or not so well. Only visible when you’re reading the full story.
• in8sworld.net now redirects to the blog subdirectory. One year ago, an index.html file that was placed there to thwart some spammers, and because that was the last time I had a lot of time to update stuff
• Each story now has 5 ‘Related Topics’ listed at the bottom of the story which are other stories I have posted that contain key words that relate to the current story. Making connections to these older archived stories is important to me because otherwise the bulk of the body of work that is my idiotic rambling online journal will be essentially visible to new readers.
• Modified the layout a bit so that there is no space between the header and meta data of a post and the text of the post. This makes it clearer what is related to what.
• Removed the in8 links from along the top (leaving only a contact and a flickr link because they are integrated into the blog now), and put them in the right sidebar with other external links.
• Categories are now listed with a category feed, in case someone wants to follow only one of the several topics on which i post regularly. This feed is accessed by clicking the small orange RSS icon associated with each category.
• Moved flashback block down a bit in sidebar (but didn’t remove it!)
• Moved search to bottom of sidebar (then moved it back)
• Created syndicate logo images and linked at bottom of sidbar. More to come!
• Added a popular tags block - still need to tag all the posts!
• Added External Links indication with small images.