There hasn't been many entries this week because I was busy changing the blog design and layout and trying out new functions.

Here's what has changed:

1) Name change
The URL remains the same, and my alter-ego is still Cap'n Intrepid. The blog however, has a new name to match its new look. Intrepidity. Not to be confused with Insipidity, even though I may border on that at times.

2) Blog design
The green Blogger template is gone. This current one has been taken off Blockfrocks and tinkered with. It's not perfect yet, and I expect to do lots of finetuning with the CSS. Visited hyperlinks are a shade too light to be comfortable (fixed!), for example. And the CSS style for comments also suck big time (looks rather plain but what the heck... fixed!).

3) Categories
The blog now has Technorati and Categories by way of del.icio.us and John over at Freshblog. John has an excellent post on how to do this. My categories are still growing (grand total of 1 category now) and may be found here. Links can also be found on the side-bar. I will probably permalink the more common categories that I will have in future.

Initially wanted to set up multiple blogs, with each blog representing one category. Main problems with that were double posting/repeated html files (I'm not that bad a programmer to allow such redundancy) as well as the lack of on-the-fly categories.

4) Disclaimers
Terms of use and a Privacy Policy has been put up. Strictly a CMA (Cover-My-Ass) move.

5) Mugshot
Mugshot is temporarily taken off, since I look entirely too serious. That's the problem with me in photographs. I either look dopey or as if someone has died.

6) Search
A Google search bar has been incorporated into the sidebar. Maybe I'll switch to a Technorati one in future. In any event, it's now easier to look for a post.

What's still to come:

1) Self-rotating banner
I'm currently browsing for free-to-use stock photos so that the main image on the sidebar can be cycled automatically. Figure I'll get tired of those stones very soon.

Update: Done! I'm currently using a set of 12 images. To see how they look like, you'll just have to hit F5 repeatedly (hence giving me more hits). Did I mention there's a pretty lady somewhere among the set?

2) More categories
Perhaps even a regular column of sorts. Still pondering this.

3) Sideblog (?)
The sidebar doesn't look as if it's big enough for a sideblog. Again, still pondering this.

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