Thanks to a late-night breakthrough in my understanding of HTML, I’ve added a feature: a new sidebar called “The Catch” which will feature brief notes and links, including some to products I’m recommending. This blog-within-a-blog feature is something I’ve wanted to construct for quite some time, and I’m elated to finally have figured it out. It opens up a whole new set of possibilites for this page.

The only catch is that my blog will have a slightly changed URL, adding a .shtml suffix instead of the .html one. The new address of my blog is thus http://www.futilityinfielder.com/blog/blog.shtml and all further entries will be published at that address. If you’re coming to this site via the top-level domain (www.futilityinfielder.com), you shouldn’t notice any difference, because all of the navigation tools will reflect this change. But if you’ve bookmarked this page, you’ll want to update the address. If you are a site administrator or fellow blogger who links to this site, I’d greatly appreciate it if you would update your links on behalf of your readers.

As for what’s going on over to the right (on the new version of this page), it’s pretty self-explanatory, a catch-all of some stuff I wanted to share as an aside. The book and music links are through the Amazon Associates program, which I’ve joined in the hopes of generating a wee bit of revenue to cover the costs of this site. The way it works is that — at no cost to you — I get a small percentage of any product I promote that you click through to purchase, and an even smaller percentage of other stuff you purchase if you enter Amazon via my link. Apologies to any of you who feel that this is a crass sell-out. Your refund check is in the… oh, wait. For the rest of you, I’m not asking you to spend more money on my behalf, just to tell Amazon who sent you if you’re shopping there.

So, without further ado, I welcome you to the new version of this blog.