Thursday Thirteen #17 – Site Changes

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Over the weekend (and still ongoing) my site has been through changes! So for my seventeenth edition of Thursday Thirteen, here are both subtle and obvious changes to verabear.net:

1- The main theme/template. From bright to dark.
2- Changed the default logo that came with the theme. I might be changing that one again this weekend though.
3- Removed the About the Author and Ads sections of the Sidebar
4- Added ads under the Header and under the Footer, but only for the Main Index page.
5- Changed the way Archived posts are displayed. The default display only listed the contents but I wanted the actuall posts shown too when you clicked on a Category, for example.
6- Edited the appearance of the Threaded Comments Plugin to match the template.
7- Removed the “author” property (e.g. posted by verabear) for each post. I don’t feel that I need it because I’m the only one who posts here anyway.
8- Added a gallery plugin – NextGen – which I may not be able to use after all because I’d have to pay per additional 8M of PHP memory.
9- Changed the color scheme for my Bidvertiser and Google Ads.
10- The Subscribe area. I never had one although the previous template also had an RSS link by default.
Still looking forward to changing/adding the rest…
11- A photo gallery that’s hopefully integrated with WP
12- Top Commentors plugin
13- I might add an Instant Messaging Control box so we can chat real time when I’m online 🙂 I had one back when I was still blogging at my Blogger address but the only one that ever chatted with me was Tracy and we chat on Messenger all the time anyways. Haha. Maybe I’ll get to know more blog readers next time I set it up, or at least I am hoping too. 😉

Feedback has been generally positive about the new look. More importantly, I am quite happy with the changes. 😀

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September 4, 2008

Thursday Thirteen #13 – What’s in my bag?

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Wow, it’s been two months since I last did a thirteen! The thirteenth edition shows you what I carry around with me everyday. I didn’t take a shot of my bag because, well, for no reason. I just forgot. I do know that I intentionally did not take a shot of all of these things while they were actually sitting in my bag because you would see how disorganized my stuff was. Haha!

Nah, seriously. The reason why I attempted to fuse plastic was because I wanted to make a bag organizer from that material. I already had one but I could use another of different dimensions; plus the other one is made of thicker material.

Anyway, without further ado, here are thirteen (or more) things found inside my bag (in the order in which I snapped them using my camera phone):

Inside the pill box are my FitRight capsules.

1) Pink pill box - Inside are my FitRight capsules.

2) My purse - with several other things inside.

3) Lip gloss - These are my current favorites but there are actually more in there!

4) Wipes - wet and dry tissue. You'll never know when you'll need them

4) Wipes - wet and dry tissue. You'll never know when you'll need these.

5) Chocolates and mints - For your needed sugar fix.

6) Comb - This is what replaced the ancient but very reliable Hair Doctor I recently broke.

7) More kikay stuff - brush, pressed powder, concealer, oil blotter, and 8 ) some shimmer lotion

9) Scent - Nothing like White Musk to lift my spirits!

10) Set of keys

11) Pens - Do I really have four of them in there?

12) My Sony-Ericsson earphone to match my phone!

13) My tiny notepad that I made myself. From scraps of paper left over from the journals I gave away for Christmas; with covers I put together myself from scrap kits.

So there you go, thirteen things found inside my bag. That makes for quite a big bag. Oh!!! I remember what’s missing here – my reusable bag! I had it washed and so it’s not back in my bag at the time of this post. Oh well. 🙂

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