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.

So I ended up not waking up in time for the hike to Wong Lung Hang (黃龍坑) today. Shame too, cause I was really looking forward to it Instead, I spent the day being lazy as well as attend to some personal business, so that was good in a way. Not sure when the next time I will have a chance to hike will be. Hopefully July 1st or 5th, but nothing is really settled.

In other news, due to the fact that wordpress.com is slow as sin, doesn’t allow me to use custom themes and widgets, and is just not that great overall (I mean I could go with Blogger or something instead of free WordPress, and I think I’d get better results) I’m looking to move this blog over to a more reliable and faster hosting. Most likely, It’ll be moved to where my other blog is hosted, so it will still run on WordPress; I’m getting that set up as I type this.

I also have a domain purchased, I’ll probably use it for this blog after it moves. Btw the WordPress Codex has been great help.

I have a google group (sorry not open to the public atm) set up for my friends and I to discuss the many aspects of the trip (ie when to go, which routes to take, etc). This wll be my first multi-day trek (I did do an overnight trek up Mt.Fuji back in ’07 ’06 god how time flies)

My plans for this blog? Not sure yet, possibly to document my adventures up one of the seven summits? My goal/dream is to, of course, successfully reach all seven although that’s just getting ahead of myself. Kili should be the ‘easiest’ of the seven summits (although probably still very very difficult) so that’s a start.

Planned trekking dates: End of December 2009 – early January 2010
Possible routes up: Rongai