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We may have added new members to the family, meet Jeff (foreground) and Gary. Don't ask...

I wrote in the muse-letter about the desire to return to the old concept of time before we measured and segmented it, back when everything was in tune with nature. Days, seasons, moon phases.

"I blog in days but not as a division of time, more as a reflection on the cycle of life – every day is a new beginning."

A note in the journal asked "How can I de-emphasise the days? How can I keep the functionality but reduce the impact of date?" The only thing I could come up with was to remove any reference to date for "Today" – both with and without posts. No matter when you visit today is always just today. It seems such a small change but, in my mind, holds a lot of significance.

Paolo, muse-letter subscriber, shared a quote from Ariana Osbourne's blog back in 2007:

I wanted the web to be radio.

Two-way radio that didn't lose signal going over the mountains. Short-wave radio for a shrinking world. My voice sometimes on the same channel as yours, your channel silent when you went to bed, all the rest fading in and out as the sun swept around the world. Blogs are so. fucking. close. The closest anything's come, really. Blogs begin their broadcast when you wake up in the morning, and go off air when you go to bed. If I missed it, that's ok, it was picked up and re-broadcast via the RSS waves. But even if I don't listen to the time shift, that's alright, I'll tune in tomorrow."

I love that.

Blogs begin their broadcast when you wake up in the morning, and go off air when you go to bed. That fits perfectly with the idea that this blog celebrates the diurnal cycle.

Thanks Paolo.

It shows how happy I am with the blog that, before the Today change, the only change I've made that wasn't a CSS tweak was to make the "Draft" indicator a clickable link so that I could quickly edit a draft post. There isn't anything I can think of at the moment that I want/need to add.

"almost certainly handsome" – I'll take that.