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September 1 2008: It’s Halloween Soon, Right?
That can really be the only excuse for the amount of orange around these parts.
Still fixing up little quirks here and there. Criticise me and tell me I’m an idiot.
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August 30 2008: I’m Actually Not 1337
Believe it or not, I’m actually aware of the fact that this blog might actually need a severe makeover, of the “hey, haven’t you had this lameass blue layout since March?” variety. There are numerous reasons why I haven’t even attempted to tweak the layout, or create a new layout, but they can all be summed up in a single word: apathy. I’m apathetic. I got out of the web design (with ‘design’ being a debatable concept in the case of my layouts) scene a long time ago. It wasn’t even a conscious decision on my part, but rather something that happened organically over time.
I was talking about it with the dude fella, and I came to the conclusion that originally, my constant drive to improve my 1337 designs and coding skillz0rz (ha!) was for one simple purpose: to impress. I wanted to be a top honcho in our little corner of the interwebs, and to have everyone look up to me, or at the very least, to look to me for an opinion on X, Y, or Z.
Then I lost that ambition. I didn’t care about becoming the most 1337 person on the interwebs anymore. I became realistic, and understood that it wasn’t going to happen because I simply don’t have an eye for design, nor do I have a steady flow of creativity. On the bright side, I figured out there was something that I can do, that very few others can. I can blog daily, telling the story of my life, and yet still manage to keep the large majority of my entries entertaining and worthy of a read. Beat that!
(Doesn’t solve the problem of a much-needed new layout though!)
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August 28 2008: Jingwen’s Competition #5 Winner
The winner of Jingwen’s third competition is Mimee! Mimee won because she said: “I think it’d be good to pick up reading books again”. Let’s just say that I do my best to promote literacy and book-reading in the world!
As detailed in the original competition post, Mimee will receive a brand new copy of Sarah Rayne’s new thriller, “The Death Chamber”. Congratulations Mimee, your prize is now in the post! For all other entrants - better luck next time! For those who didn’t enter, but who read this blog - the next competition will be posted in at the end of September, so stay tuned!
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