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If you've been to the site any time in the last couple weeks, you've likely noticed that the banner at the top changed from the lame rush job I had up there before. The new one is from fellow blogger and veritable Photoshop Master Lisa H. of ObliviousMind.net. It is way above my PS skills and it's to my shame that I haven't publicly thanked her yet. She's been a great help to me from the beginning of this little project and I am very thankful for that. Anyways, Lisa has recently re-opened allHEART!, the manifestation of her dream to unite hockey fan sites together. The site had been down for a few months (which she explains on the front page) but now it's back in business and she's trying to rebuild the list of sites. Go check it out and if you have a hockey site of your own, be sure to submit it for listing. I think it's a great idea. As you have perhaps noticed, we recently made the switch from HaloScan comments to Blogger comments. This is because Blogger finally made some much-needed updates to their comment system and I decided it wasn't necessary to use a third party for our commenting. It's a little different than HaloScan but not complicated at all. If you have a Blogger account and are signed in, you won't have to do anything but type your comment and submit it. If you're not a Blogger member, you can just type your comment and then click the "Other" radio button and type in your information before submitting. Or, if you prefer, you can comment anonymously. We don't get a ton of comments here (except Brian, Christy, Dan and I -- hint, hint, people) so I thought I'd make mention of their existence in case you've never availed yourself of the feature. Also, if you ever feel so inclined, you can e-mail our posts to a friend by clicking the envelope-and-arrow icon in the byline. Doing so will take you to a page where you fill out a form with your information and the e-mail address of the person whose Inbox you want to fill with our expositions, as well as a box to explain to that person why you sent it. Just another nifty feature Blogger provides (and another one very few people, if any, will use, but hey, it's cool to have just in case).