change of look and feel

folks, 

i am sorry about the abrupt change in look and feel of the blog, especially to my regular fellow contributors pagan and san.

google has been sending me mildly threatening messages asking me to change the look for reasons that are unclear to me. 

i found out that i have two options: 

1. go back to the 'classic' look, which is what i have done now,

2. or go to a sparse '2nd generation' look, where it is optimized for phone screens, and posts are only five lines long.

unfortunately, i have lost the template that we have been using, so it is a choice between (1) and (2).

tell me if (1) is ok. 

i will switch to (2) shortly so you can see how that looks too.

then we can decide on which to choose.

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sent from xiaomi redmi note 5, so please excuse brevity and typos