It’s nice to get a little makeover once in a while.

A little less than two years ago, we had our own, and declared we were “trading spaces” - launching a new look and new software for this blog.

Now, we’re doing it again, although the changes this time are a bit more subtle. One of the improvements you may notice right away is that we’re going to post comments “in-line” with the blog entries. Instead of all comments going to a central comment “roll” or “scroll,” now you can post and view comments at the bottom of each individual entry.

Same blog, updated look and functions.

A word about comments. I’ve noticed that a good deal of them are actually questions. And they are often excellent questions. But unfortunately, it’s impossible for me to answer all, most, or even a handful of your questions at any given time.

Still, I think it promotes an interesting dialogue to continue to post them, even if answers aren’t always forthcoming. So we’ll keep your questions in there for the most part.

All of your previous comments, by the way, are still here on the blog. You can view them in the archived comments section. And you also might want to check out our guidelines and comment policy.

Elsewhere you will see that we’ve incorporated a cleaner layout, made things easier to navigate, and streamlined the look of the blog overall. Archives of past blog entries are also more accessible, with a new function allowing you to search by month.

You may have noticed you were re-directed to a new blog address this time. That’s because we’ve changed our URL. Our address is now http://boeingblogs.com/randy/. The reason for the change is to create a central location on the Web for this blog and any future Boeing blogs. So you might want update your bookmarks or favorites.

By the way, the new address may affect the RSS – or feed readers you’re using. It might be a good idea to go in and re-set your feed. I’m told that every reader reacts to content differently. So, with this change, some of your existing feeds will work and some won’t.

Anyway, we’re becoming a lot more highly viewed, so it made sense to have a dedicated site for the Boeing blog(s), and at the same time incorporate some “performance” improvements. For instance, we hope you’ll find that the pages load up a lot faster now.

I’m always talking about how important it is for Boeing to listen to our customers. This time we listened to feedback from our Web customers, and improved the quality of our blog – and as a result we think we’ll be able to converse with even more people around the world.

So I hope you enjoy the “new” blog. Same as the old blog – only better.