All the pages in the "recently changed pages" sidebar are from today because I just updated my website to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This took around 15 minutes, because:

• I use a text editor to write my HTML, which means the only thing I have to fight to get the code I want is my brain.
• I have a few XHTML friendly habits, like always using end tags like </p> and </td>, as well as always enclosing attributes in double quotes like you're supposed to. The majority of the changes were of the <hr> -> <hr /> variety.
• I have a mostly text-only site, so I'm not futzing around with 30 nested tables trying to get graphics to line up just right. Ugh.
• A good portion of the HTML you get on every page is generated from scripts, which means I change it in one spot and it's changed everywhere. Even the lousy stuff I've written will spew lousy yet conforming code.

I didn't really have a reason to make this change, other than I like the idea of web standards and I knew it wouldn't take much.

I still need to go back and update some things in the news database, but since no one ever looks at the archive, it doesn't much matter. If it mattered much in the first place.