Jason Kottke's post on insecurity as a barrier to innovation reminds me that I've had a redesign for this blog on my hard drive for over two years that I haven't installed. The new design uses new software, and includes many of the best blog design ideas of the last few years— not because they're hip, but because they're useful. The main reason I haven't installed it yet is that the design represents the obligatory new direction every blogger takes after so many years, one that's inevitably more expensive to keep up than the current format, while I scramble to find the time to write anything of any quality as it is. But while most personal webs are not afraid of doing something different, it's possible that I'm afraid of doing something the same.

But really, I'm just busy.