My, how time flies.  This past year was a somewhat rough one, with various factors such as school, work, and apathy last fall leading to some somewhat dead stretches in my blog.  Yet, despite this, this blog still seems to be chugging along, about as good as always.

I don’t have anything particularly new planned until I get finished with my masters in May (Finally!), but once that arrives, I’m sure to start looking at new things for my blog (of course, if you have any good ideas now, feel free to throw them into a comment anyway).

However, despite my semi-hiatuses and other things (it’s not like I’m an uber active member in the anime community.  I’m like one of those sicknesses that shows up suddenly for a little while, then suddenly disappears to lurk in the darkness again), I have a decent shot of breaking 100,000 visits in the 2009 calendar year.

Believe me, those are numbers which I probably would have never imagined when I started this blog, on my old domain, using some program called Simple PHP writing anime reviews maybe once a week or so (I didn’t even get into episode reviewing until the Spring 07 season, so the end of the current season will also mark 2 years of doing episode reviews).

Welcome to Josh’s Anime Blog Version 6! This design is a pretty radical design change from my last one. This design features a bigger content column, including a full width first post, with most of the important sidebar things, such as the list of tags, categories, pages, etc. moved up to the top horizontal navigation.

As a part of this, I’ve also added three new themes for the site: Please Twins, Shakugan no Shana, and Toradora.  However, unlike the old design, the only thing the theme will change will be the banner.  Colors on the site will remain unchanged.

Another big change was moving from the sandbox theme to thematic, where I am taking full advantage of it’s child theme ability, both with CSS and with php functions, where I’ve taken over a couple of the things that I used to have to edit actual plug-in or core wordpress files to get what I wanted.

Another change is that I have now enabled nested comments, which can go 5 comments deep.

As usual, if you notice any bugs, please let me know.  I think I tested the site pretty thoroughly, but that doesn’t mean I caught everything.  The one thing I know still isn’t fixed as of the launch is going back and redoing all of the youtube video links, but I’ll get around to that when I get around to it (these should now work).  However, everything else should work fine.