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Sunday, Jan 22, 2006 - 21:37 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

What's Another Blog?

Late on the wave, here's Yet Another Blog to join the countless millions residing on server hard drives around the world. Still, it's one more object in the blogosphere.

Some eight years after I first registered my domain name (just about when Jorn Barger created the first weblog), I finally got around to piecing together a coherent system with which to chronicle my life. And indulge my ego as an afterthought.

The epoch really began when my secondary school class shifted its traffic from our venerable email-based Yahoo Group to Blogspot. Actually, more importantly, I got bored. Sated on DotA, and not partial to mugging so early on in the semester (kind of unsporting... nah, just lazy), I decided to start a blog.

I didn't even look at the mainstream blog hosts such as Blogger.com. My server wouldn't have been able to forgive me. I pretended to briefly contemplate using one of the many freeware and undoubtedly comprehensive blogging software available (Movable Type, WordPress, Nucleus CMS etc), and decided that it would be too much hassle to learn how to configure them.

Therefore, I proceeded to create my own blog software, like any self-respecting Computer Science major. And glolg (the lol means Laughs Out Loud, not decided what the two G's represent) was born. Development from scratch took about five days, with the promise of many bugs to be discovered. And many features delayed. Damn, I'm already thinking like a professional software engineer.

So have a look, try to crash the site, whatever. I'll be back soon.


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9 comments


gilbert said...

Talk talk!


January 22, 2006 - 21:41 SGT     

alvinny said...

zai lah~!

show off computing skills liao, next step is to show off ur econs flair, history knowledge, sporting analysis, mathematical deduction, psychology philosophy sociology etc etc etc!!!!

This will be a great blog! Hahaha.


January 22, 2006 - 21:49 SGT     

wenhoo said...

i like your this design better than other of your previous works


January 22, 2006 - 22:04 SGT     

wm said...

你是我的偶像!!!


January 22, 2006 - 22:29 SGT     

triceo said...

ur design is really gd, but pls change ur glys logo, its cramping the style of the rest of the blog


January 22, 2006 - 23:38 SGT     

triceo said...

and mebbe u can smoothen the edges (anti-aliase?) of ur powered by glolg thingy too


January 22, 2006 - 23:40 SGT     

triceo said...

post some more entries leh, den we can wait for ur blog to get featured in the newspaper liaoz


January 22, 2006 - 23:41 SGT     

sq said...

u tot of doing part time designing b4?


January 23, 2006 - 14:28 SGT     

gilbert said...

Thank yew(s)! :)

To triceo: hmmmm the logo is something of a tradition leh, plus I don't think it looks that bad. The glolg thingy i forgot to save the intermediate PSD file, so got to find time to start from scratch.

To sq: ya haha. someday... u got lobang?


January 30, 2006 - 21:16 SGT     


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