Here your Uncle Grambo was, all excited to present the FOW Nation with a brand-spankin’ new whatevs (dot org) redesign on Valentine’s Day, when the lovely and talented Julia Allison had to go and upstage me not once but twice by baring her bangin’ bikini-ready bod. Well, I guess I shouldn’t feel that bad … in the blog-centric circles that your Uncle Grambo runs in, Julia got even more run today than Beyonce on the cover of SI. Despite facing massive competish from these scantily-clad sextarts, your Uncle Grambo will not be denied … the show must go on!

So, um, yeah, here we are! What do you think of the new digs? The primary goal of all this was to step up whatevs (dot org)’s game enough to keep up with the Digital Joneses of the Web 2.0 revolution while still retaining a familiar look and feel for the tride and true members of the FOW Nation. To that end, here’s a breakdown of a few of the major things that were rehauled:

• SWITCHED PUBLISHING PLATFORMS — Bye bye Blogger, hello WordPress.

• ADDED TAGS — Hopefully this helps you, the user, make the best use of your time here at whatevs (dot org). Note: Tagging began on January 1, 2007 — combing back through the archives proved to be WAY too hard a task to complete.

• UPDATED COMMENTING SYSTEM — Don’t get me wrong, I loved the backBlog system. But it started getting really spammy late last year, particularly on pages that were getting good Google traction.

• BRAND NEW FEEDS — Those of you who are hip to the RSS game will now be able to subscribe to both your Uncle Grambo’s rants AND get the instant scoop from the feisty commenter community. That is, if you’re ready for Yale Bloor in your Google Reader.

• ADVERTISING — Yeah yeah yeah, I know. But when I got word earlier this week that my primary sponsor decided to channel their funds elsewhere, I found myself running cash-negative on the operation side of this site. Trust your Uncle Grambo, the last thing I want to do is whore this space out, neckcar stizz. I just want to break even (ie, cover the $250/yr it costs to keep this site up and running). Hopefully you won’t find the advertisers too intrusive in your surfing experience.

While that might not seem like much, these changes are the result of a long and arduous process that’s actually still in flux a bit. In other words, please pardon our dust as we continue to tweak a few things that will (hopefully) make this site even more dope.

But before I unleash you to explore the previously embargoed content, it should be noted that this site is a customized derivation of the Tri-Sexuality Standard Theme built by Scott Jarkoff, a theme I first discovered when Big Plans Big Crash launched. Thanks for the inspirado, gents. Also, big ups to Head Set Options for all of their hard work behind the scenes to get everything up and running.

And with that, welcome to Version 4.0 of whatevs (dot org) … bovs on your respective tees!

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