I’m back from a sumer hiatus, with a brief post about facebook.  They just made the new layout the permanent layout–”New Facebook is now the only Facebook,” they say–and I, along with many others, find it much less convenient than the old layout.  Fortunately, there’s a workaround over here.  It does work, in that when I tell it to switch over to MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer?) 5.5, it displays facebook in the old layout, with a note at the top of the window saying “Sorry, new Facebook is temporarily disabled.”  Some other things–gcal, for example–will also go funky with the switch, but you can turn it on to use facebook and off for everything else.

Hang on, strike all of that.  It used to work, but I was just checking it while writing this, and it looks like facebook has worked around the workaround.  Far be it from me to understand how this whole thing functions, but I gather that User Agent Switcher mimics old versions of internet browsers, and for a while there, the new facebook wasn’t set to work with some of those versions.  It seems they’ve caught on, though, and have made it work with all old browsers, thereby drowning the last hopes of us change-fearing naysayers.  *sigh*  I guess it’s back to trying to get used to the new layout for me.