Spring Cleaning in Cyberspace

I haven't organized myself to the point of planning on the reboot day which the bloggosphere does kind of informally each May first. Probably because it sounds too much like work if planned. Apparently I understood on some level the need to put a fresh face on the Asylum Blog though.

Interestingly, Problogger's regular contributor - Aaron Brazell in discussing the annual May First Reboot says:

"I've learned:1) change is inevitable, and 2) people hate change. 

"The exception to this rule seems to be websites. Most people (and I say most because it’s a suspicion that I have no way to prove one way or another),

seem to like change in design and layout because most layout changes seem to be evolutionary - that is, they get better and more user-friendly with time.

"A Reboot is a kick in the butt to freshen a users experience, place a fresh face on your work and, in general, break monotony that tends to set in after awhile."

I kind of feel that way too. No statistics to back that up either. My excuse for doing it is that a blog is so much easier to fiddle with successfully than a website. Still - it can eat up the time if one is obsessive about making that blue just a teeeensy bit softer or exact placement of item A in relation to item B.

I've stopped moving furniture around in the house entirely - well, other than the kitchen table which has still to find a permanent home. Pushing columns around on a page seems so much less strenuous.

The width of the left column isn't a done deal either. I'm trying it on for size. Maybe the OneMedia  presentation should stay atop for a bit too.

Let's think of this as a new Easter ensemble rather than Spring Cleaning.