Sorry if you got hit by any downtime while I gave the site a quick upgrade, although I tend to do these things at such an unreasonable hour that I doubt anyone was too severely affected.
While upgrading I decided to ditch the comment form; no one was really using it except for the spambots that would occasionally get through. There's still email and the rest of the stuff on the contact page if you really need to get in touch with me. One less thing to worry about cleaning out, mostly.
As for large changes... there is a possibility that I'll be switching hosts sometime in the near future. Ideally if this does happen it will be quick, painless and have minimum impact for anyone trying to access the site, and the domain name should stay the same and all that. (It is highly likely that I'll have to give up the dementedchicken.net domain name, though, which means that it will no longer redirect to alteredorigin.net. If you're still using that domain for anything... stop that.) It'd be sort of nice if I could get this together in time for the site's fourth birthday in early December especially since working on a crapload of other stuff has left me pretty much no time to come up with any other suitable "gift" updates, oops, but given that I'm still not 100% sure it's going to happen and it'll involve spending money and fiddling with servers and other such unpleasant things, I make no promises there. Hang tight for now and we'll see what happens; I'll make an announcement well in advance if anything big ends up changing.
Speaking of changes, I've been in the mood to try spicing up the current layouts a little... or else just getting rid of some of them entirely and putting up some that are a little cleaner. Technically I could just leave all of these up and put up newer versions in addition to these, but I'd rather just replace them unless someone's dying to keep any in particular. It's late now and I've got other stuff to do, but I'll probably put up a poll or something in the near future and see what sort of response I get before I take a chainsaw to Warbird or Apparitions or anything.
This concludes your irregularly-scheduled 2 AM update. Should be back soon with more details on the layout situation and the possible server move.