Its not really hot yet, but its bloody humid here in Hong Kong. Instead of watching my walls work up a sweat, I decided to put in abit of effort fixing up my blog, ’cause its an eyesore. I’ve been meaning to change it for a loong time now since I never really liked the old theme, but the slidey-pictures-header were kinda cool (yeah I’m the type of person who sells out to a gimmick. Sue me). Anyway, aside from the gimmicky header, everything else about it just pissed me off. White on black? No thanks. Sidebar on the left? Ugh.

Besides the theme change:

1. I’ve added a twitter feed as well as a Google Buzz feed to the sidebars. I’m not so sure about the twitter, I may remove it later since my account is protected for a good reason. Ok I’m lying. It’s only protected to prevent spam followers, I’ve got nothing to hide … honest!
2. I’ve enabled Pushubbub
3. I’ve disabled comments on the blog <- Scratch that, I’ll just leave comments on. No-one comments here anyway lol.
4. I’ve also disabled auto Facebook updates. Instead, I’m trying out this Post to Facebook plugin instead. Should give me more choices in terms of how the post shows up on Facebook, as well as let me omit posts from showing up there at all.  Honestly I’ve never been a fan of how posts show up as “Notes” on FB, no embeds and… yeah.

About my decision to disable comments on the blog? Well its not like people leave comments here anyway. Most of my replies come via twitter, Google Buzz and Facebook. I’m still trying to figure out a way to combine all these comments at one centralized source. Until then, I’ll probably leave comments here disabled. Hell, I would disable comments on Facebook too if it let me. They used to! I don’t know why they don’t anymore. *grumbles*

Enough ranting, I’ll probably make some other minor tweaks here and there. The Google Buzz widget is not functional enough for my tastes yet (doesn’t even let you clock on the Buzzes), but that’s ok, cause you should just be following me on Buzz instead. Other changes I’ll probably (sneakily) make within the next week month: add a flickr stream thingamabob and maybe get some site banners/headers up (although I kind of like the plain-ness of it all).

ps. The new theme may of killed some of the formatting for my old posts, but I’m not really going to bother with fixing them.
pps. Crap on a stick, strike-throughs don’t seem to be working at the moment.
ppps. Ok, running into some problems with the post to Facebook plug-in, it posts to Facebook properly, except it takes the text from my Google Buzz widget as the “preview” for the post, so I gotta delete it manually …. need to find a way around it. Or possibly a new plugin. But first, sleep.