Hello. How are you doing today? As you may have noticed, the site has undergone several changes. The site now has a new title, a new rating system, simpler navigation, and new statistics of user interaction. The current site version is v 0.9.

The most obvious change is the new name of the site: The Reasoner dot Com . I ran a poll on this site from December 26th, 2006 till January 11th, 2007, asking all users to let me know whether or not they missed the layout with a penguin. 53 votes were cast, and the results show that most people were all right not seeing a penguin every time they came to this site. By a difference of only 3 votes, many people expressed their feelings that they wanted the now-missing penguin. 10 people thought I was crazy and had no idea what I was talking about, and thus they voted “What previous design?” Based on this, I decided to go ahead and remove the penguin from the site for now and make a few other changes throughout the site. I will bring the penguin back if I can somehow incorporate him [him, right?] into the layout and see if everyone is ok with him then.

I classify the changes into the following 4 areas:

1. New title

   For several years I used the name “The Penguin Chronicles” as the title for this site. As cute as that name was, it did not convey a feeling related to the content of the site. I like penguins, but I do not talk about penguins that much on this site. I decided that a new name was in order, and the domain name, The Reasoner dot Com, was a good replacement in my view. As time progresses, I will come up with a related tagline that better deals with the site content. The penguin lives on, but the logo is gone. “The Penguin Chronicles” title with the penguin logo was created around July 24th, 2005 and stayed around until January 18th, 2007. The penguin stayed with us as the mascot for 1 year, 5 months and 25 days [543 days total].

2. Rate every article
   You now have the power to rate each article to show how much you like it. You can rate any post on this site anywhere from a 1 to a 5, with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 being the highest rating. Your ratings and comments let me know how and what to improve. To rate an article, simply move your mouse over the star you wish to rate and click it. This will instantly rate the article and reflect the current ratings. Go ahead; try it on this or any other post.
3. Improved navigation

   The other changes on the site include a simpler navigation system on the top and on the side of the page. I had simplified the navigation before and have decided to consolidate several links into one location further so as to make the site easier to understand. There are now more ways to find out other comments, commentors and posts on this site via the different sections on the side of the page. Also, I have removed the advertising that was being displayed on the side bar. I am trying to limit any advertising on this site in order to make everything as simple and relevant as possible.

4. Updated sections and a new stats page

   A few pages have been updated to make them easier to read. The following pages have been improved for easier reading:

   • Links page. Links are now organized with more description. If your link is listed here and you want a different description, please email me.
   • About page. The about page needs constant changes, and I have included more details on advertising compared to before. You can now see more details about my disclosure on the advertising used on this site.
   • Copyright page. This has been updated to show what can be done with this site.

   I wanted to make more stats about this site available to you, so I came up with a small new section of the site called “Latest activity” that shows the user interaction on this site. On that page you can see the total number of comments, the last 10 comments, the most commented posts and the latest commented posts. If you would like to see something added or removed from this section, please email me.

This change can be considered a bigger change than the last one, v 0.81. The numbering system is a random system I chose in order to make it easier for both myself and you to keep track of changes. The latest change is v 0.9 . Once I have a new tagline and a logo ready, I will add a few more changes and call it v 1.0 .

As with all the changes, if there is something you would like to see or if you feel something should be removed, please email me to let me know.

Thank you for reading this post; I really appreciate it.