12
Nov
Blog Enhancements
Today turned out to be quite mudane, and the details are enough to bore anyone. What I found strange was that I slept around 8 hours, woke up feeling refreshed, hit the backlog of newspapers (I didn’t have time to catch up on the news that happened during my suffering in Brunei), and fell asleep right there on the floor.
I only woke up to my mom’s clucking. She had wanted to mop the floor, and I was in the way. When I hit the pillow, I was drooling in dreamland all the way until lunchtime. Definitely not a very healthy way to start my morning. Possibly, my body was trying to cure the huge sleep deficit that I had incurred in my slumber account.
After lunch, I had to fight the drowsy feeling that came along with a full stomach. It was tough keeping awake, but I had heard stories about how sleeping too much during the day can give rise to insomia at night. So I got myself a huge bottle of water (those mega 1.5 litre bottles), and downed it. I remained quite awake after that (not to mention the frequent toilet trips).
Then after dinner, I had an inspiration to enhance my blog, so I went shopping. The newest addition is a chat box, which I hope to use as a platform to unify all those comments which might not truly belong to my posts. I’ve also automated the long bar that you normally see on the right, so that it is broken up into many smaller sections that are displayed one at a time. You will see the bar in its former glory if you do not have a DHTML capable browser.
Dear Younger Brother was quite delighted to see me when he got back from school, and stuffed my face full of food. Probably does not do justice to the tough slimming down I have had over in the steaming jungles, but my stomach now loves me even more than before I hit Brunei.
Dear Brother also egged me to come up with my own design for my blog, instead of relying on pre-made templates by other people. “It’s more original, and will make you look more cool!” he extolled. Well, I might do just that, on the account that he has pampered my stomach. We’ll see, tomorrow. Perhaps after tomorrow? Or the day after tomorrow?
on November 13th, 2004 at 12:14 am
I like your blog enhancements, although I don’t think the sidebar thing is working for me.
I’m getting to see how the Google ads work, too. It’s making me giggle. Three of your ads are about sleep deprivation. I guess the single hotel one was inspired by your post about overseas travel.
on November 13th, 2004 at 1:26 am
Probably Google gives higher weightage to that post of mine.
I have fixed whatever is breaking the right box, so it should work properly now, I guess. At least it looks like it is working for me.
on December 5th, 2004 at 10:54 pm
The sidebar thing is working nicely, now. I like it! (Naturally, I especially like it that I’m in there in the ‘favourite links’ bit. Thank you!)