Bi-annual 'musings'?

Yo peeeps!

As you can see, I have updated the blog to match with 2008 standards... yes, Blogger HAS been steadily improving functionality and ease-of-use even though we (meaning YOU busy busy people) have ceased to notice!

Nevertheless...

CHANGELOG (16th Oct 2008) in L.A.ACSWO 2.0:

1. OLD CODE IS HEREBY INVALID (and super messy btw) and cannot be recovered (actually, it is possible, but let's move FORWARD ok?)


2. Changed Template to support 'Gadgets' (Widgets is what the universal term is). So now, adding code should be done by "adding gadgets" instead of hard-coding the template. Although I had a problem with the 'techno line.gif' and therefore wrote it into the template instead.


3. Changed Colour theme and font theme and post format.


4. Added Techno-line.gif graphic into header. (This is probably done wrong. Some expert coder please check the code in the template under the CSS style "header".) Note: Some formatting errors to be solved as I checked how it looked in IE7 and FF3.0.3, and it looks slightly different in IE7.


5. Added 'Poll' on changes. Please vote! Or add your own!


6. Added 'Shoutbox' for you guys to bitch! Old shoutbox removed.. can't tell whose id 175909 belongs to! Sorry!


7. Added 'imeem music stream' gadget using my account and an impromptu CHEESEEEY (but GREAT!) 80s playlist. Anyone who has an 'imeem playlist' can add a music stream to the site too! Just add your own "HTML/Javascript" gadget and put in the embed code given by imeem and remove the old one.


8. Added 'Recent Comments' gadget. Destroyed old code for recent comments as Blogger now has their own easy-to-use version.


9. Added 'World Clock' gadget to reflect the globe-trotting exploits of fellow ACSWO-ians.


10. Added 'LED Text Scroller' at bottom of page. Highly imposing and should be kept below. Will be removed if I receive enough complaints! Heh!

TO BE UPDATED (by anyone!):

1. Cascading comments is GONE! Someone put it back? HAHAHA!


2. Any other requests by non-contributors. Contributors can add/remove gadgets as you like!


3. Personal Blog 'Link Graphics' which are outdated.

Some interesting points to note:

• There are 19 contributors on this blog, but we have an average of 2 posts per year (for the past 2 years - Hence my post title!)! At least there is a draft sitting pretty in the "posting" section since 16th June this year (*cough* Lemming! *cough*)!


• Now all graphics uploaded directly to your post will go to your PERSONAL 'Picasa Web Album' (It's like Flickr, etc) which all Gmail members should have. You have a 1GB space limit however.


• I decided not to have a slideshow gadget (at this point in time), as personal albums should go to personal blogs. What I'm suggesting (since we're so bored on weekends anyway) is to gather all our pics and select a hundred or so to scan them into a general Flickr/Picasa account.


• Finally, I made the music stream 'autoplay' just to irritate you all. HAHAHA!

So that's it from this update! We've taken the plunge, and there's no going back!

Rickrolled,
-Cal-