So now you know reason for the unfortunate recent lag in posting entries: After more than a year and nearly 500 posts, Overheard in Pittsburgh finally looks like it wasn’t made on a Commodore 64.

In addition to not making your eyes hurt, this new site allows you to browse entries by location, as well as by subject. Want to read only about Squirrel Hill? Done. Want to read only about children or upsettingly sad old people? Double Done. Additionally, I expect to have a webform running that will make submitting easier, so you don’t have to scour the site for my e-mail address, which, only during the final closing of the old site, I realize had disappeared from the front page. The comments system is awesome, and the RSS and Atom feeds should work fine here.

Blogger was an alright place to start, but it was high time I got out. Blogger is slow and clunky, and it crashed an awful lot. Using Blogger was like living in your parents’ basement and trying to flirt with truckers on a CB radio. Using WordPress is like having access to some sort of “SuperWeb™” in a castle made out of candy and dreams. I’d like to thank all of the readers, particularly Robin H, Sophie, TheConnor, McArdle, Tia, Pharout, M. Davies, and the other submitters who have kept this site running. Without them, the Overheard in Pittsburgh would just be transcriptions of the sounds of my tears. Hilarious tears.

More news is coming, although I am not allowed to share just yet. So stay tuned: Overheard in Pittsburgh is getting better and better.