It's a beautiful day outside -- what better way to celebrate it than by hunching over your laptop and enjoying a freshly redesigned webpage? Hurrah!

Two things: first, thanks to knautia for generously offering her Flickr photos under a Creative Commons license, allowing me to take and modify the purty cherryblossom photo underneath this text.

Second, our long-suffering IE users might experience somewhat better performance now -- I am, anyway. For one thing, we ditched the gigantic tiling graphic in the sidebar (for now). For another, the 2x1 pixel GIFs that made up some of the tiling stripe elements have been replaced with larger images. A decent web browser would be able to tile tiny images efficiently. Oh well. I know you'd be using something else if you could.