I really can’t hold myself back much longer.

WordPress 2.7 is out and it is an incredible upgrade. I really can’t wait to set it up on my blog.

Trouble is, my blog is also in dire need of a redesign. A friend mentioned that he wanted a blog like mine, but not so busy looking. I looked at it objectively and realized that I didn’t want one that was so busy looking, either.

This past week, while with the nice folks at Lynda.com, I got to play around with some new themes. I liked one of them so much, I want to install it on my blog.

But while I’m at it, I want to pare down the number of plugins and features that rely on them. I want to clean up my blog. I want it to be less busy looking.

And to do that, I need to start removing content.

All the old polls that weren’t working anymore have just been deleted. They’re gone. I’ll add a new poll feature sometime in January.

The guest book will be gone very shortly. I don’t need a guest book. It’s a spam magnet.

And do I really need so many categories? I can combine a bunch to narrow things down a bit.

Links? On a links page!

Recently posted, read, commented? Who cares?

So bear with me as I start paring down this site. I’m hoping to get the new look online by year-end.

If there’s any feature of the site you’d really prefer me to keep, speak up in the Comments for this post.