I love this layout! I've been modifying this since 2 weeks ago in a test blog and now it's officially used. Using layouts are surprisingly convenient once you're are familiar with the codes... One noticeable thing I've done is the labels near the post title. Because this layout originally doesn't show the year the post was made, I see the need to put labels there so that I'll know from which year it was right away. Another thing I've added (and like so much) is the random quotes in the sidebar. I didn't know how to implement that in my 'old template' blog but it's easy when I'm using layout. Oh, yeah. Currently I'm reading Emma... but I'm progressing slowly... It seems that I'm not interested enough to read on whether Emma's matchmaking will succeed. But I'm just in the beginning, so it's too early to back out... Besides I've started to like Mr Knightley. I'm always drawn to read more when his name comes up on the page.

Here's a post dedicated to these sources who and which made this blog a blog.

Firstly, the layout. It's a wordpress template converted to blogger xml by Falcon Hive (you can find other beautiful templates like this in his site). This template name is Color Paper.

Modifications done to the layout.
From annie's site BlogU, I've used (or referred to) these for this blog...

• The Expand/Collapse feature in my posts
• Pretty Blockquotes. I referred to this to edit the css for quote that I used for my "favourite quotes" appearance. And following that I used similar css code for the a:hover in the sidebar.

She has also introduced me to these...
"Random quotes generator" by Ramani at Hackosphere.
That's "favourite quotes" in the sidebar. I initially tried the one from annie's but I got lost when trying to edit the appearance of the quotes.

"Label Cloud" & "Feeling Lucky" (random post) by phydeaux3.

Light Box widget (an image hack) for Blogger by Max.

I added "Reactions" to blog posts by using code from here.

Divided the "featured" part to two columns. One for my latest tweets & the other for bloglist that shows updates from my other sites. Modified some code I saw from here.

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As for the "labels" part in posts... I referred to this site to find the codes for labels. Actually I found pieces of information from everywhere but I found this site most useful to my intentions. I know there's many sites that can tell you which code is for what... but I don't have all day to search for all that. Anyway, I also found out how to modify the "comments" section from there.
edit Nov 12th, 2009: Changed my comment system. I'm using Disqus for newer posts.

Actually it's only one font.

This morning, I was surprised to see this blog almost all in italic. The weird thing was it's italized in Google Chrome, Opera and IE while it's in bold in Firefox. I thought I left some tags open in my templates but that wasn't it.

Then I searched for this. The closest solution I found was about a "core-font" went missing. So, I did accordingly to the sites I'd found - I looked for "Arial", "Verdana" & "New Times Roman"... all there.. they are not missing.

I have 4 blogs and this thing only affects 3 of them. Then suddenly it occured to me.

I'm using much "Trebuchet MS" in these 3 blogs.

Ah. Trebuchet MS!

*Went to the laptop and drag-n-drop the font file*
*installed the font*

And the problem just disappeared like that.

Hmm.

I guess that...
When you have this problem., remember what font your are using for your blogs, websites, application..etc. Then look for it in Fonts (Control Panel > search "fonts"; BTW, I'm using vista) to confirm that it's there.

If it's not, some solution I read said it's available with Windows CD (the recovery CD). Or you can just drag-n-drop (I can't copy the font file so I drag-n-drop it at the desktop and d-n-d again in my pen drive) from a computer that uses the same operating system.



Learnt something new again!

So ketinggalan zaman...

I always surf the internet but I never really did care to read what's the latest issue going on around the world and the internet.

So... I went through this... Yup. Now I know who started the "Canon Rock" craze.. (heard it talked of often in form 6... & Ren-chan was also looking for the version played in Proposal Daisakusen..) Well. During f6, I didn't even bother googling it... hmmm. I know there's many on youtube but I only bothered to listen to the one mentioned in the wiki entry - the original arrangment by JerryC and the one covered by Lim Jeong-hyun, a south korean guitarist... So, yeah. Now I'm in the "know".

And I read about "Dog poop girl before on the d-addicts forum. My only reaction was, "Wow. I can't believe people are this rude on public transport." The Bus Uncle is another example of this. There's "milder" rudeness (IMO, although I know that when one is rude, one is being rude) - but at least there's no real poop involved. There's another one... That's one bold and insensitive girl.

Others...
Interesting... (Lonelygirl5)
I saw this before (I think it was from an e-card website) but never knew who he is... (Gary Brolsma)
Eww, yuck! (This & this!)


Other than the Canon Rock videos, I didn't watch anything beyond the wikipedia articles...


Ah-huh.. Yeah, I'm this boring.

*sigh*

I'm really trying to be a good best friend now. I already planned weeks before my friends and siblings birthdays.

And this month - it's Mel-chan's birthday!

I'm so conceitedly proud of myself (although the day hasn't arrived)!

Haha


As in my post earlier, I had started working... [so] semi-part timely. My latest erm... new experience was making calls to strangers. Try imagining my reaction when I was told "You have to make calls to this list of people and ask them ---.." Okay. No surprise, actually. I went, "umph... okay." I always suspected that I can be good at this. But I never had the courage to [even] order Pizza-hut home delivery. I'm that pathetic. Anyway. The most terrible moments were when I had to call someone who knows me... and also when I called them at the wrong time (meetings and such)... *relief sigh* I'm glad that's over. Fortunately, I felt like laughing all the time that I think the impression (of my voice) I gave them wasn't that bad. I know my voice sounded different in the phone so that's why I was brave enough to telephone an old childhood friend (but doesn't keep in touch with each other anymore). I felt really stupid and ridiculous treating [in the phone] anyone who knows me in a business-like manner. But the work itself (someone up-there requested it) was already very ridiculous!

*sigh. sigh.*

I haven't had the courage to update my drama reviews. I don't know what's holding me back! Hmmm... Change of topic: "Corner with Love" is shown in Astro AEC channel... I've watched it a bit in 8TV but never completely. Even when it's in AEC, I didn't watch it faithfully... I don't have the right to commend a drama I haven't watch but I do have some complaints of the casts. I believe there can be a sweet chemistry between Xin Lei and Qin Lang, but it seems to take forever to see it properly. But then, remember, I haven't watch it so I might had missed some significant scenes. My chief complaints weren't about Barbie Xu (I always think she is a good actress) and Show Lo (sometimes his expression looks fake but he's okay)... It's the side characters. I can't stand Lu Jia Xin (Cai Xiao Yang and and Carolyn Chen (Wen Bi Zhu)'s portrayals. The other male characters weren't that better either.

Anyway. I will [try to] watch this so that I can give it a proper review (having said all these without finish watching it.)