For those of you that have asked, here's what's different behind the curtain on the new site...
I decided to distract myself with geek work on the personal site back during the first weekend of the NFL (a full three months into my blogging hiatus). I'd been using .Text to power the site since it's launch in summer 2004, but since watching it's evolution to Community Server, I decided now was the perfect time to migrate. Although it was somewhat tedious, I was really pleased with the outcome. Community Server 2.1 is a huge leap ahead in terms of usability (I love the interface for using tags!). Unfortunately, the migration process really only addresses the site content, not its presentation. The skin I used on the old site was simply no longer of use one the new CS-based site.
Since I was having fun so far, I immediately began working on tailoring a site skin to give the site a more unique identity in not only the CS blog community, but the vast world of blogs in general. Unfortunately, the scope of both learning CS 2.1 skiining, and developing a complete new CS skin (for both blogs and photos) in a single weekend, was not really feasible for me at that point. The majority of the look was established, but the blog skin needed further work for comments especially. Likewise the photo grallery skin hadn't even been touched. As much as I'd intended to get back to it quickly, eventually the demands of work and home took me elsewhere.
After Christmas 2006 however, I realized I needed to begin posting again ASAP. It was more important to have the outlet, than to wait until I was 100% satisfied with it's look. The only real additional stuff added since the initial CS work in the fall, was to migrate the webcam and screencam sections. Fairly minor in that they are really independent of CS, and primarily CSS-based. Therefore, making the new site live was a matter of a couple hours. Much less if I'd have left the cams alone.
What you're looking at now is the result of that effort.
I appreciate the complements and questions, but, you'll likely be stuck with the unfinished commenting, and lack of a consistent photo gallery identity until things slow down with work. Sorry.
Oh, and for the couple of others that have asked... No, the skin isn't for sale. Not because I'm ethically against doing work for people, even charging them money. But rather, if I'm going to release work to the public, I'd prefer that it be of the quality I'd expect from ohers. And trust me. It's not.
Unfortunately, that's gonna be a while folks...