Ouch. I just noticed that I haven’t posted here in over two weeks. Since April 1st! Well, I didn’t exactly mean for that to happen. I guess it just… did. But I was very busy, I promise! Very, very busy. With school, and, like, school and stuff.
I’ll have a few posts coming up about what exactly has been going on recently. Sure, I could just list it all here in this post, but then I’d just have this one huge humongous post about 5 different things, when I could have 5 regular posts that take up 5 times as much space!
So I guess the point of this post is me saying “Hey, hello! Hi, yeah. I’m still here. Just a bit busy. I’m going to talk about nothing for this post, but I promise more posts will follow!”
I hope I didn’t just jinx it.
It’s been a while, I know. But now I’m back and hopefully secure (thanks Aaron.)
Anyway, it’s been over a month since my last post, which I am very sorry for. But, life took over and I just didn’t have the time to put the site back up. But now it’s back up, and I’m running the newest, shiniest version of Wordpress which is, by the way, great.
What else is great?
- The GrApple theme for Firefox, which makes it look 99% like Safari.
- Firefox 3 Beta 4
- Matchbox 20, specifically their album “Exile on Mainstream”
- My grade in History (once the extra credit gets counted, that is)
- Coversutra (which I got in the Macheist bundle)
- My new chair!
- My new haircut! (ok, not so great, but still)
- My new dual-hinge phone! (It flips BOTH ways!!!!!!!)
That’s all for today.
I’ve just implemented a combined RSS and Web 2.0 sidebar thing onto the site. Why? Because I can. But really, I saw these beautiful iPhone-esque icons at Fasticon.com and had to use them somehow. So I threw out the default RSS “Subscribe” module, and replaced it with a large and pretty icon. Then I used arne’s Delicious (and other services) Bookmark this! plugin for Wordpress to allow all 18 of you to quickly add one of my exciting blog posts to Digg, Delicious, Newsvine, or Furl.
But that’s not all! If you click one of the four smaller icons from a specific blog post, it will take you directly to a page on the service of your choice, with that specific post already filled in! I know, amazing. Not that anyone here would use that very often. But I might… And it looks cool anyway. You can even do it below for this post!
PHP does some really cool things. I really should’ve taken that class as my elective this year… but when it’s up against Film there’s just no way that I’ll choose it.
I’ve realized that whenever I promise to do something regarding this blog, I don’t end up doing it. For instance, a couple of weeks ago I promised to write a Harry Potter 5 review. Never happened. I started it - I wrote about a paragraph - but by the time I felt like coming back to it the movie was weeks old.
If I say that I’ll take lots of pictures before a vacation, I usually only take a few. But if I don’t say anything, I come back with lots. It happened again just recently… at the beginning of June I said I wouldn’t be able to post much then, but that I would post like I had been previously (approximately every day) once July came around. I made only 1 more post in July then I did in June.
See? Is that enough? It’s a jinx! Whenever I say I’ll do something, I never end up doing! So, I promise to take zero photos while in Florida next week, and I promise to post very little in August. There. Let’s see what happens.
As of today, Akismet has caught over 10,000 comment spams on this blog since I installed it late last October.
So now I wonder… is this a good thing or a bad thing? Good because it indicates traffic (?) and because Akismet caught them. But bad because, well, it’s spam. I really don’t know what I’d do without Akismet.
Just in case you were wondering…. (even though I know you weren’t)
I tested out Netsua.com at websitegrader.com (thanks Blogg-Buzz) and got (I think) pretty good results…
- In terms of “marketing effectiveness,” Netsua scores higher than 71% compared to the 35,000 other websites that have been submitted.
- Alexa.com thinks that this site is the “
