So great that I have to wait another semester to get my certificate reprinted. So great that I have to be the picky perfectionist and notice that it’s Multimedia and not Mutlimedia. Dang, now I’m even spelling it Mutlimedia by reflex.

Maybe it was not meant to be. Maybe I was meant to be a Mutlimedia dude, not a normal Multimedia dude. Why did I pick Multimedia/Mutlimedia and the Internet instead of Software Engineering? Simply because Software Engineering had C structures (too complex) and networking. (I didn’t want to be opening floor tiles and crimping RJ45’s!)

I wasn’t really good with Multimedia proper. Perhaps, I am a breed, a hybrid of a programmer and multimedia dude, where my skills can only be quantified as that of a Mutlimedia graduate! A new class, surpassing all the rest! 🙂

On the other hand, I’ll just tape my mouth and wait for the reprint. 😛

For the majority who use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you are in luck. An exclusive, proof-of-concept skin, showing off the power of my elite JavaScript skills, has been made!

Meet the Round skin. It makes blog text actually appear to be in a circle! However, the algorithm’s not perfect, so it looks jagged at the edges, and maybe a bit heavy at the bottom. Also, HTML is disabled in the Round skin, so you can’t click on any links inside the blog entries. 🙁

Of course, the Blueprint skin is still default for the rest of the browser world. You can also pick other Skins if these don’t suit your picky eyes.

Don’t come asking me for the algorithm. If you know how to get it, it’s worth understanding. 😛

Yes, reply, for it has been made easy! If you replied before, it remembers who you are (as in your name and email) so it doesn’t bother you for it again! Cool huh? I am too sleepy for my usually bombastic fit-in-more-words-than-necessary self. There’s also a weird salty taste in my mouth, but heck.

Life has been screwed up recently, but heck – I am here to blog happily! (I will tell my horrific tragic stories later…)

Take for example my vibrating, ringtone-composing, picture-message-drawing Nokia 3315! Sure, I adored and held on to my old Siemens C30 and its unique redness, but no – I must move on. The C30 didn’t have predictive text input, custom ringtones or The battery died 12 hours after 10 minutes of talk time. Half-an-hour of talk-time would have the same effect, but the point was that it was unpredictable. So I got myself one this last Sunday and gave the C30 to my mum (who promptly changed the glaring red backlight to a pale lime yellow.)

“It looks just like a Nokia 3310!”

Yeah, yeah, I know. It even fits the shape. What’s the big difference that made me pay 25% more than a Nokia 3310? Here’s what: (and it will be an article on Xfresh soon, y’hear?)

– Auto-keylock. To think that only now Nokia would think of it, huh? Even an old brick like the Ericsson A1018S has it. So far, this is the only Nokia model out where I am that has this feature. And heck yeah I love it. There’s no longer that nagging feeling that you may be putting it in your pocket to be poked by your keys, accidentally SMSing other people (or worse.) Sometimes before I keep it away, I stare at it just to see it lock itself. Ah, the wonders of technology.

– Blob-like keys. These soft-edged keys make it easier for your thumb to slide as you SMS. However, it still retains a solid, tactile feel (though nothing beats the C30, force-feedback-wise!)

– A Lithium-Ion battery. The Nokia 3330 (like a 3310 on WAP) had that, which is wayyy lighter than the 3310’s Nickel Metal-Hydrate batteries.

– Reminders. While this is not up to Personal Digital Assistant / Personal Organizer standards, it sure beats having to carry a calendar around. I’m not so sure how the 3310 does it, though. 😛

– And last but not least the best way to pass time waiting – a picture message editor! Before this one had to go through websites, dig up credit cards and pay somewhat, or connect the handphone to a PC, but now it’s possible to do it on your phone! And best still, it’s not completely a tedious pixel-based process – you get some vector-based shapes to insert like circles, boxes, text and fills!

Do you want this exclusive Glaring Notebook screensaver on your handphone? Order now! Email your handphone number to me with a good reason why you visit my site often. 😉 I also do requests (I made an Afro for a birthday girl!)

“Yeah, but doesn’t the Nokia 3350 have almost all that?”

Sure, it’s got 6 keys besides the numeric digits and the */# pair, but it’s ugly. Ugly, I tell ya. Unsightly. It’s got lights that follow the ringtone, but I’m not into that. It’s got WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) but I’m not into that, either. It’s got phone memory, but I haven’t that many contacts. (This is a hint to give me your number, dangit!) It’s got 6 keys, but I think 4 is enough.

Also, I can masquerade my 3315 as a 3310. I can tap into the vast market of 3310 covers, unlike the misshapen 3350. It’s backward compatibility baby! Need I say more?

Yes I am back from the land of whack where I will not have a corny knack of hitting the sack with my sonnets!

What’s a sonnet anyway? It’s simply an ababcdcdefefgg poem, with 10 syllables per line! (Read my sonnets and you might catch the idea.)

Anyway, I’ve updated my blog viewing system – you don’t have to click on each archived post to read it! Instead, you get to skip pages of 28 days’ worth of your health peppy poppy high-calorie Glaring Notebook adjective-injected posts!

Oh, and if you wonder what’s with this Red Brick skin having the Glaring Notebook signboard as text, it’s because it’s expandable! The Red Brick skin is designed to be horizontally and vertically liquid (as with a lot of other skins on this site!) Liquid in this case means expandable. Of course, there is a minimum width for this Red Brick skin, but it lives well within the lowest VGA resolutions one can point a stick or set a monitor at!

You may wonder why I don’t write about work. No, it’s not because they are watching. It’s more like the dynamics of work and stuff move too quickly for it to settle down in my brain. Everything happens too fast, I don’t have time to document. That’s why I write sonnets in college to describe my general feelings. That’s also why my crap ends here – because my bedtime is near! (Corny corny corny I know…)