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After the succesful redesign of The Wizard of POS, I had gathered some momentum, and continued with the redesign of Brain Tags.

First of all, I reverted back to the basic Movable Type templates, as I had hacked the old templates to a level that made it very difficult to maintain and update. Actually, the latest update to version 3.31 broke my site at several parts.

When all templates were more or lass back to basic, I used the fantastic StyleCatcher plugin to change the look and feel. I selected a style called Make my way from the Movable Type style contest. I know it is not very original, as there mioght be dozens of other blogs using the same style, but it is far better than I ever could make.

This is where it stands now. I still have some minor issues to fix, which will probably be done next week. What do you think about the new Brain Tags?

Since June 2004 I have posted 953 links to interesting, new and funny sites in the Brain Links section of this site. Today I have decided that I will stop adding more links.

I noticed the last months that little by little I am adding less links, and I started to wonder why. I started collecting the Brain Links as a reference site for myself; a place where I could look up those handy sites I saw a month ago. But the reality is that nowadays I hardly look back at all those links. It has literally become a link dump, a black hole for interesting stuff. I guess that subconciously I already figured out that it is not worth the effort anymore.

So exit to Brain Links. Soon I will start remodelling the Brain Tags site, just as I have done with The Wizard of POS, which will probably result in a leaner site that is easier to maintain and update. At that point, the Brain Links will probably disappear completely --- though I know that you should not break links...