My apologies for the dull administrivia, but I thought it would be a good idea to let everybody know that we've added a few new interesting technical features to the Leisure Nouveau weblog lately.

1. reCAPTCHA is now being used to help screen comments.  This is a great feature that uses your CAPTCHA input to help digitize old books, newspapers, and other media while also blocking spam.  This also allows us to accept anonymous comments now.
2. We are now using Gravatar's global avatars in comment postings, which allows our commenters to finally have nice little icons next to their posts.
3. Various behind-the-scenes optimizations and changes have been made that hopefully speed up the performance of the website.  It should be loading faster and running smoothly.

We hope these various changes provide our readers with a more positive, easier, and leisurely reading experience here.  Please leave us your thoughts and comments and let us know if there are any other handy changes we could make.