Meet the new look, same as the old look

Being considered for the Occasionally Asked Questions file: "How come this site looks exactly the same, year after year?"

The answer would be something like this:

Close enough. This particular template, slightly modified over the years, was implemented in August 2002. One reason I haven't jumped on the Movable Type 4 bandwagon is its lack of support for the pop-up comment box, which I prefer to the new-and-unimproved method of dropping you directly onto the individual archive page. The color scheme was originally sort of a lark: I resisted traditional black-on-white, which in some variations causes me eyestrain, and after twiddling with literally dozens of color schemes from various suggested palettes, I decided to select from the blandest possible colors that had names assigned by Netscape. (You remember Netscape, don't you?) The background color is something called "floralwhite." The 2000-2002 pre-MT pages were done in a shade called "antiquewhite." (Before 2000, there was neither rhyme nor reason nor any consistent design around here.)

I did, for a brief period, swap the left and right columns, but that didn't last.