First of all, I’d like to apologize for my recent lack of posts. As the case would be, I’ve been kind of busy over the last two weeks and I have not really been paying enough attention to the news and Blogosphere to generate my usual caliber of posts. I have not forgotten you, and I will try to get back into the groove of things soon (and certainly by January when I finish my college applications).

Despite the lack of updates, I have been making some changes to the site. Mostly along the lines of minor layout changes, some of which you may have noticed already and others which are more subtle. In addition, I changed the load order of the page so that the content will load before sidebar, a significant improvement for those of you with slower connections.

Besides the layout, I am reorganizing my categories into broad topic areas and using post tags for more specific descriptions. While this may not make a difference for most readers, navigating the archives should not be easier and more intuitive.

Thanks for continuing to stick with News. Views. Common Sense. and thank you for visiting.