…which have to do with my plans to redesign things a bit.

Why am I doing this (I often ask myself)? One reason is that my old design is really really old, and it tends to be a little glitchy when faced with all the new gadgetry that’s come into being since I moved to WordPress over ten years ago. Ten years in blog-years is like light-years.

Just as a small example, now that my archives are so lengthy, it would be nice to have a drop-down menu for them instead of that long long list of dates in the right sidebar. I’m not planning a lot of bells and whistles, just ordinary things like that which are impossible with the antiquated design of the blog right now. It not so much that it looks bad (I like the way it looks), it just lacks some functions I’d like to have.

Another thing I’m planning is to drop the “neocon” and just become “neo.” I wrote a post a while back about my reasons for wanting the change, and I’d still like to do it. The idea is to have the old URL redirect to the new site, so if you like “neoneocon” and think of me that way, that name would still work to navigate to the blog.

“Neo” has become a sort of trademark. I’m somewhat limited in choosing a new URL to go with it because the ones that seem obvious (like “neoneo”) are already taken (unless I want to be .org instead of .com, which I think is needlessly confusing).

What’s happening right now is that, for the moment, the URL “neoneocon.com” is linked with a different URL, “thenewneo.com”. Both URLs lead you to the same blog, this one (with different URLs at the top, depending on how you got here).

My original notion was that I could work out some of the design changes at the other site (“thenewneo”), in private, while keeping this one (“neoneocon”) as is. Then when I was ready to unveil the new one, it would be all spiffy and finished. Well, as with so many technical things, that plan ran into some problems. I hope to get things back to normal (just one URL, “neoneocon.com”) in a day or two.

In the meantime, though, you may notice that when you try to comment at neoneocon.com, the page loads as thenewneo.com instead. It looks and functions almost exactly the same, just with a different URL. The only other difference I’ve found is that when you comment, you may have to log in your username and email address. That’s just for a short while, though, till I get this fixed and back to relatively normal.

I apologize for any inconvenience. I hope it will be worth it in the end!