Upgraded the site engine to Drupal 5.x this month, and updated/redesigned the front-end theme. For the redesign I decided to turn it down a notch. This is the third design for stevenread.com. The previous designs were almost horrible... so to be safe this one pretends that it no longer has a design. I was inspired by some net artists to go this direction. (zucconi, seecoy) I have ended the 'Conclusivity Blog' which was primarily an art project. I realized that I am not a 'net artist' because I believe successful net artists are good electronic communicators, gregarious even, and these traits usually affect the net art being made. I am a neither of these and don't aspire to be, so I guess I am just a regular artist. For a while I was making net art 'about' bad communication and anti-networking, but it seemed like the wrong path for my art. Anyhow, this new 'Read News' blog will be much more utilitarian than the last. I also officially downgraded my name back to 'Steve Or Steven Read' which I originally started using in 2004. In 2006 I upgraded this pattern based name to 'Ste(v|ph)en? Re[aei]d' which was regular-expression compliant and allowed for 12 different spellings of my name. That name is officially deprecated, please do not use it. Steve Read, Steven Read, Steve Or Steven Read, and sometimes Steven Fucking Read are the current names which refer to me. All in all it feels great to have some things refreshed at the start of the summer of 2008.