The Net Monkey

A few things have been removed from the sidebar area (the right column) of the blog layout which should result in the entire site loading faster. The worst was the gVisit functionality. It was cool, but costly on load times, as their servers just aren’t very quick.

I also re-ordered a few items in the sidebar and added a “Recent Tracks” section, which is updated by this little AppleScript called iTunesSpy. Essentially, the script runs on my Macintosh and makes an API call to the blog (via the integrated iTunesSpy WordPress plugin) every time I play a new track. Pretty slick stuff.