David Bowie is pretty average

I was going to call this post Ch-ch-ch-changes, after the David Bowie song. Then I thought that maybe Bowie is over-rated, so I was going to call this post 'David Bowie sucks' with an explanation about the 'Changes' connection. Then I thought that 'David Bowie sucks could be construed (accurately) two ways - so I called it, well, you know what I called it.
Anyway, the point of this post is that I am a man and as a man it is incumbent upon me to mess with repair and maintain things, even if they don't really need any messing with repairs or maintenance. As a part of this unholy injunction I've been messing with this little time waster.
You may have noticed that I now have a 'recent comments' bit in the sidebar, for example. I searched and I searched and I searched for the code for that. I could have saved myself the time and gone through the Blogger Dashboard. Still, it's pretty nifty, huh? I particularly like the way that the first bit of the comment floats around when you run the cursor over the appropriate spot. (What do they call that floaty roundy thing, anyway?) Fucknose why it does that, but it's pretty nifty.
I had a girlfriend who used to say that - every time. Probably why we're an ex-couple.
Still, I can be like the big kids now and have summarised posts. Of course, that means the posts have to be long enough to warrant summarising, so this will probably be the only time that I do it. Oh well.
There's also a couple of links added to the bottom of the sidebar which are supposed to increase my traffic, make my teeth whiter and give me more intense orgasms. I'm a bit dubious about some of their claims, I don't see how they're going to whiten my teeth, but we'll see. It's a bit academic, really. I don't give a Rat's patootie how many people read this, as long as somebody does, I'd hate to just stand here and scream into the dark.
Finally, you may have noticed that I've sold out. Yes, sad to say, but I've gone over to the Dark Side. I've been in touch with Google and decided to take their thirty pieces of silver. Actually I doubt whether I'll get that much out of them. This, too, is an academic exercise. They don't actually tell you how they work out how much to pay you. Well, they give you the general idea of how they do it, they just don't give you the numbers. I'll give you the numbers, though. Every now and then, probably when somebody asks, I'll put the figures up here so that you can all writhe in envious anger/ laugh and point at my futile effort to become a new age media magnate.
There's a few more things I want to do while I've got my masculine practicality mojo working. The sidebar is getting to be longer than a Russian novel. so I'd like to have drop-down menus for the blogroll and SGP standings, just to shorten it up a bit. Should make the load time for the page shorter, too(?) I haven't been able to work that one out yet, but I'm indomitable. The sidebar seems to be too wide to me, so I'm going to have a go at skinnying it up a bit. I think I could do that, but maybe it's trickier than it looks. I love that the Template page has a 'preview' button.
I'd also like to create a bit more of a personalized feel to the whole page, change the banner, put a background image in etc., but I have no clue about that. I'll work it out eventually.