A little change of landscape around here—the homepage has undergone some surgery. I promise this one will linger-on longer than the previous one.

As to why I have cut the intestines and stitched it backwards, let’s just say it’s a personal preference—no plans to offer any plausible explanation. So for better or worse, this is how the grass on my lawn is going to look from now on.

Is this homepage any good or is it just another one of your idiotic ideas?

Well, let me just add that—with the exception of pagination—this homepage hasn’t lost any of its predecessor’s functionality.

Huh? What? Where? How?

If you have noticed carefully, the primary links that lead you further inside are all there. In addition, this homepage retains all its Google juice, its Technorati rank and my Open ID. It is also feed intelligent¹, open search intelligent², and because it’s powered by Wordpress, it allows you to explore just about everything via the address bar³.

So what did change here?

Other than the obvious list of chronological posts missing, this site makes feed its primary access point for updated information. You can, of course, access individual posts via either the archives page or via the updated feed⁴. The comments and pingbacks are open too—if you’re compelled enough to share something—agree, disagree, a different point of view and pingback—here, nothing on this site prevents you from doing so.

In short, this site is as much transparent to a geek (and a search engine spider⁵) as opaque it is to a casual surfer. I’d like to think I’ve captured that idea well here.

1. All modern browsers and feed readers can auto-discover XML feeds on this site. For more variety, look up colophon page. [←]
2. Firefox can auto-discover ckunte.com’s search. Load the homepage in Firefox and then pull down the search menu—next to the address bar. You’ll notice that there’s an Add “ckunte.com”. Add and begin searching this site. Yes, that simple. [←]
3. Look up the archives page for more details. [←]
4. There’s also a master feed combining everything, if you’re interested. [←]
5. Because over 70% of access to this site is via search. [←]

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