So I know I haven’t been around much lately, but I can explain that in a bit. EndofWeb has a brand spankin’ new redesign! I’ve given it the very same WordPress theme that Loupe has been using successfully for a few months now — Left5. It’s gone through loads of tweaking and shaving since the first version, and now it’s slimmer than ever before.

There’s just so much to love about super-clean lightweight blog designs. I think the combination of minimal, clean HTML5 and lack of everything makes for a much nicer experience when loading and viewing a site, and Left5 does it with style. Giving this theme to a regular blog (vice Loupe, which is an imageblog for larger image-sizes) also goes to show its versatility.

As for the lack of posts recently — that was due to a mix of general business and work complications. I used to do a lot of tech-news reporting sort of stories here on EndofWeb, but a couple of months ago I began testing the waters at a major tech blog, which while I won’t name, turned out to be a place for which I didn’t want to continue writing. Shortly afterward, however, I started happily writing for Download Squad, and that means that EndofWeb can’t be my outlet for most news-worthy posts any longer.

On a side note, DLS is good people. It’s a small crew, with actual care put into quality-control, and it’s part of a great family of blogs (including TUAW, Engadget, Joystiq, and Urlesque) under the Aol corporate umbrella.

So, I’ve been mulling it over, and instead of letting this place idle until death, I figured it was time for a redesign and follow-up repurposing of the blog. While most newsy sort of tech stuff will be destined for DLS, this place can and will serve as a more personal site than ever before. That means I’ll be working harder to find interesting stuff, funny stuff, ridiculous stuff, and downright infuriating stuff to post about on EndofWeb (on a more regular basis). If I have something I want to say about a certain social network or tech company — and I can’t adequately express myself in a PG-13 manner — this place is still the spot where I can vent those feelings. After all, that’s what personal blogs are for.

Aren’t they?