If you’ve been here before, you’ll now see that I’ve given the site a cosmetic makeover. The main motivation for this was to get rid of the 450-pixel width imposed on photos by the old layout. Naturally I got a little carried away, and ended up with a new layout, a new color scheme, and a new banner photo. (The photo is of the river next to Uji, Japan, as seen from the bridge.) There are also some nifty HTML5 features such as on-the-fly scaling, which means that this site will adjust its size gracefully if you happen to look at it with a cell phone or other small-screened device. Unfortunately I carefully tagged most of the photos and videos I’ve posted in the past to constrain their width to 450 pixels, so they won’t automatically get bigger in the new layout. Henceforth, though, photos will be considerably larger.