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    <title>A New Beginning ...</title>
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    <published>2008-04-07T21:12:32-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-02T23:11:50-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Robert Kosara</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>This website has been in existence for over eight years, and has seen few changes in that time. Looking at some of my writing (some of which goes back more than ten years) makes me cringe, and I had been planning a new website for a long, long time. It is finally time to flip the switch and look at an (almost) entirely new kosara.net.    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>This website has been in existence for over eight years, and has seen few changes in that time. Looking at some of my writing (some of which goes back more than ten years) makes me cringe, and I had been planning a new website for a long, long time. It is finally time to flip the switch and look at an (almost) entirely new kosara.net.<!--break--></p>
<p>Some of the articles on this website are quite popular and receive a steady 100 visits per day, so doing away with them entirely seemed like a bad decision. So the more popular and relevant ones have been slightly updated but relegated to <a href="/topics/Archive">the archive</a>, where they will stay.</p>
<p>Some articles, especially the ones on language, have been deleted and will be replaced by a series of blog postings to come over the next months. The old blog is also gone, as it was deemed of very low quality and interest. Instead, the blog is now integrated into the site, and updates will be either blog postings (which will be generally short and of a more personal nature) or articles (longer and more general).</p>
<p>The topics of this website will largely stay the same, but the scope and amount of material will be greatly increased. There will be more on my research in information visualization (though look at <a href="http://eagereyes.org/">EagerEyes.org</a> for more on that), photography, language, and other topics that interest me (like Lego Mindstorms NXT robots).</p>
<p>What is also new is that most pages will allow visitors to comment. I received a steady stream of emails even from my old, horrible website, so I hope that this feature will prove to be useful. Also, feel free to use the contact form to let me know if things don't work the way they should.</p>
<p>And finally, the design has been updated to look more clean and calm than what it was like before. I hope to have made the site a lot more readable, and also created a bit of a visual identity that ties this site and eagereyes.org together. The design will continue to be tweaked and updated.</p>    ]]></content>
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