welcome back everyone! after a short hiatus, i’ve managed to put together my new layout and upgraded my publishing platform.

earlier this week, i was in the mood for change. this feeling doesn’t come too often. so i decided to wipe out my earlier version of MT 2.1 and upgrade it to the new MT 3.121. boy was i in for some geeky fun. after uploading all the files for MT 3.121, i was impressed with the refreshing chic interface. however, the impressed feeling halted there. MT has completely neglected to debug this new version. at first, i thought it was due to my negligence, as i often ‘scan’ instructions instead of carefully following it. however, after 4 installation trials, i think i can come to the conclusion is the platform is a piece software crap what reeks like my feet after a long day of leather-shoe-wearing work. ugh.

i ended up installing a previous MT 2.661. i was so pissed that i was going to switch platforms, but i really don’t want to learn another platform since i haven’t used any other platform since my switch from greymatter.

so yes, lots of exciting stuff in the new mattism:
> repaired the long-malfunctioned “remember me” function in the comments section
> new rss feed for my blog
> expect a photoblog as soon as i collect a considerable amount of digital pictures to implement one

hope you’re enjoying the new layout. i’m currently obsessed with with vector imaging with illustrator. it’s a lot of fun.

speaking of obsessed. that new destiny’s child song is super-addictive. i mistook the song as a beyonce song, but eric mentioned it to me yesterday that it was actually a band song. quite interesting because it seems like beyonce’s voice dominated the entire song.

speaking of songs, there’s been a lot of great songs released in the past month. maybe this is to make up for the lack of good songs this summer. i can honestly say that this there was ‘no song of the summer’ this summer. although this may be because i was stupidly in school this summer season. anyway, comment if you think i stand corrected. here’s what i’ve been checking out (‘non-radio’ people, read no further)

> Destiny’s Child - Lose My Breath
> Duran Duran - Sunrise
> Avril Lavigne - Nobody’s Home
> U2 - Vertigo
> Lindsay Lohan - Rumours

Note: Due to database corruption issues from November 7, 2004 to December 21, 2004, entry comments may been deleted, or misplaced. I have tried to recall some of the comments that was mentioned.