During the past 7 or so days, I was ocassionally working on some changes to the blog here. Besides several minor modifications (mostly to the CSS stylesheet, some corrections in the lifetype templates), I also added 2 slightly more important functionalities.

1. I removed the old Archive links on the navigation to the left (they were pointing to individual months), and replaced them with a single page that contains ALL entries that I've ever written:
   
   
   In order to get this done, I first wrote a small (ok, tiny! just a few lines of code in the end) plugin for lifetype, that fetches and returns all blog postings (somehow I couldn't find this in the existing functionality, maybe I just overlooked it). This was my first PHP coding in a long time....
   Additionally, I then created a Custom Template for this new Archive page, that applies the viewing logic to the long list of entries, and displays it as it can be seen above.
   
2. The second addition to the blog are 'previous' and 'next' links in the viewing page of the individual postings:
   
   
   This makes it a lot easier to navigate through the blog posting by posting.