This was my first free weekend in a very, very long time. I haven't goofed off like this in about 6 months, it felt great. I did do something productive with this blog thought.

First of all, I changed over to a slightly modified template. I wanted to have a liquid layout with a static side bar on the right, and achieving that surprisingly not straight forward. I wanted to place the content above the menu in the html code, and that affects the css implementation.

Second of all, I started a tumblr blog. I wanted to somehow achieve the same kind of blogging style using wordpress, but tumblr is just way too far along, and the fact that tumblr is embeddable made me sign up for one. We'll see how that goes.

By the way, tumblr doesn't give you any information on the css you need to stylize the embedded content. I'm not sure how they expect people to figure that out, given that browsers don't display HTML generated by javascript. Luckily I have Firefox and the Web Developer Toolbar. I can just hit View Source > View Generated Source and see what the tumblr javascript generates. These is css styles I've created for the tumblr sidebar so far:

I've been trying to figure out how to type Japanese characters for about a week now. The top search results on google didn't work for me, but I finally figured it out, and the solution comes from Microsoft. I don't know why this isn't the first search result. I got halfway there, but the key for me was making sure that "Microsoft IME Standard" is the only input option for Japanese. I can now type Japanese characters in notepad at least. It's useful if you set up keyboard shortcuts to change language.

Read:
Installing and Using IME
Language Keyboard Shortcuts

You might see the the BlogRush widget on the sidebar - I'm trying it out for a few days. I came across their website and their traffic-increasing scheme is interesting. I wonder how they make money though.