Good stuff, love the sardonic world weary look on the toad's face as it sits at the keyboard!

Bufo is a picture of radiant health. Astride the keyboard he appears resolute and ready to explore the frontiers of innovation without bothering to take prisoners on the way. He's never looked so good.

Calendar flags are a nice touch.

Leap years ahead? "Blunt views" etcetera was cleverer and a better descriptor of what goes on around here. This is not a crystal ball shop.

Hey! What goes on? Just looked up to the masthead while composing this comment and Bufo was veiled by that pink mist again. Ah, but he internet wasn't built in a day.

All the same, three cheers, in a plural personal pronoun sort of way, especially for the renewed enthusiasm for the blog and blogging.

Blunt views was mine, but I'm not going to die defending it. Can we have a mini-poll? What do the knights and ladies of the Round Table think? Leap years? Or Blunt Views?

Prefer Blunt Views, since that's what they are.

Blunt views for mine

I like it Charles, especially good to get the forum preview posts down the side. Toad looks like he just ate the mouse!

Leap years is ok but I preferred blunt.

On my 17in CRT running Firefox about 10% of page down one side is blank space, the shadow of the page runs onto it. You might consider moving it across a little to let those forum posts run out a bit more. I think the column size for the posts is about right through.

Looks great - not as prissy as the last makeover and much easier to read.

I like the reference to 'leap years ahead'. Matches the toad. I also like the text and font of the heading. This is a clever toad who can type upside down!

Looks really good. Does the estate of Russ Hinze mind you using his photo?

I took the plunge myself a couple of days ago. Couldn't believe how easy it was. Nagging feeling it is a form of vanity publishing, but I'm getting over it, especially after reading the Dirty Digger is worried about it.

Keep up the great work!

I like the new look, but prefer "Blunt Views". And the toad's mouth actually belongs to a certain rodent who has just downgraded Medibank, again. And about peoplemeters and their accuracy the other day, ours doesn't get used much; nothing to watch and too busy reading blogs anyhow.

Looks great.Good work. Much better looking Toad too.

Very clean, very neat, very professional. Obviously put together with and eye for good clean readable appealing design. Well done!

Love the Toad. Very happy with "Leap Years Ahead", it has a nice twist to it that suits Bleeding Edge. I liked "Blunt Views" but everyone knows that's what you get when you go to Bleeding Edge, so a new tag line makes readers stop and think for a moment. Not a bad thing in our view (as I think cw would say.)

The top of the page looks very neat, but on my 15" LCD, with FF, the column starts to feel a bit claustrophobic once you've read a fair way down. Maybe have it sneak into the unused space underneath the ads and calender/recent forum posts, making it wider?

Content and style fascinating as always. Congrats.

Screen layout requires a lot of "scrolling right" on 800x600 screen because it runs off the right hand edge. With a browser that allows quick % rescaling (eg avant) it fits into the screen but the right hand stuff then collides with the content column and becomes pretty unreadable.

resetting the screen to 1024 wide fixes the problem. Guess the designers discovered that everyone has swapped from 800x600 to 1024.
Heck - I must have been asleep when that happened.