major changes
i received an email from my good friend dindo late last night asking about what i've written on the spanish trail. he wanted to join the climb and was keen on knowing whether it was going to be a challenge for his lately sedentary life. he said he wasn't sure how he would search for the entries on my blog.
truth is, i've been putting this off for a while now. i have actually been wanting to change the layout of my blog, but never really found the time to do it. besides, i knew very little about HTML or CSS or whatever it is that's necessary to design a page according to my precise idea, but i owe it to dindo, and to others like him, who use my blog not just as a place to kill time, to while away boredom, to find out the latest gossip, to look into the glass cage that is my life, but also to find information. i am, as miraclecello says, part of the peripatetic lot, and i am perhaps the best "chronicler" in the business. miraclecello's words, not mine.
so as a service to my readers, and since for the past two weeks i've been editing my entries to place tags, i've changed the site and made it more navigable. on the lower left side of the page you'll find tags. i'm not even finished with a third of my 450 plus entries, but it is a good start. i've had to upgrade my account with LJ though, and that basically constitutes the major change: USD 19.95 for every 12 months doesn't seem so bad, if you're earning off your blog. but i'm not. i'm actually ads free, and i prefer it that way. many "pro bloggers" are nothing more but illiterate masters of the fine art of googling.
i can't say though that i'm not headed that direction, as i have some plans to somehow pursue a profitable enterprise as an offshoot of this blog, but random ruminations will remain as it has been from the very beginning.
of course, nothing i've said in this entry makes sense or will be evident on my multiply mirror site, so for those of you reading me over at that site, jump on over to my LJ to see what i'm talking about.
the changes are actually temporary, and there will be less-than-slight upheavals in the next few days until i find the layout that i've always wanted. if you're a genius in web design and would like to volunteer your services for, say, an entry, let me know. in the meantime, i hope none of you feels lost or put off by this major change.
truth is, i've been putting this off for a while now. i have actually been wanting to change the layout of my blog, but never really found the time to do it. besides, i knew very little about HTML or CSS or whatever it is that's necessary to design a page according to my precise idea, but i owe it to dindo, and to others like him, who use my blog not just as a place to kill time, to while away boredom, to find out the latest gossip, to look into the glass cage that is my life, but also to find information. i am, as miraclecello says, part of the peripatetic lot, and i am perhaps the best "chronicler" in the business. miraclecello's words, not mine.
so as a service to my readers, and since for the past two weeks i've been editing my entries to place tags, i've changed the site and made it more navigable. on the lower left side of the page you'll find tags. i'm not even finished with a third of my 450 plus entries, but it is a good start. i've had to upgrade my account with LJ though, and that basically constitutes the major change: USD 19.95 for every 12 months doesn't seem so bad, if you're earning off your blog. but i'm not. i'm actually ads free, and i prefer it that way. many "pro bloggers" are nothing more but illiterate masters of the fine art of googling.
i can't say though that i'm not headed that direction, as i have some plans to somehow pursue a profitable enterprise as an offshoot of this blog, but random ruminations will remain as it has been from the very beginning.
of course, nothing i've said in this entry makes sense or will be evident on my multiply mirror site, so for those of you reading me over at that site, jump on over to my LJ to see what i'm talking about.
the changes are actually temporary, and there will be less-than-slight upheavals in the next few days until i find the layout that i've always wanted. if you're a genius in web design and would like to volunteer your services for, say, an entry, let me know. in the meantime, i hope none of you feels lost or put off by this major change.