Upgraded to the New Blogger

Although I don't think it makes much difference in how the blog looks or works for visitors, I just thought I'd mention that I've upgraded to the newest version of Blogger. I've decided to stick with current template, as I'm happy with how my blog looks. However, one nice new feature is what Blogger calls "labels", and what I will variously refer to as "labels" or "categories". While I had created my own blog post categorization system a while back, it was a manual process, was rarely up to date, and was relatively tedious to maintain. With the new built-in support for post categorization, I can affix labels (e.g., "economics" or "philosophy" or "funny") to each blog post as I write it. The labels appear at the bottom of the posting, but more importantly, the categories in the sidebar on the right are links to all the entries that are categorized or "labelled" as being that subject area. Again, I had this list of links in the sidebar before, but now they take you to all of the postings in each particular area -- rather than a customized page with links to each. So on the whole, I think this new system is far better. (A few posts, such as those about my blog itself -- like this one! -- won't get labels at all... at my discretion.)