Chasing After Rainbows

The technology blog was the placeholder for creating new blog layouts before it was applied to another blog it was intended for. It was chosen because it had the least amount of widgets added. Not too long ago , I used it to create a layout to look identical to the one I'm replacing at a blog as that has a lot of problems that I can't fix since I created it a month ago . After I was done with the replacing, I decided to fool around with stuff, picking random colours, images that had been "gathering dust" on the image server and hard disk. As it turns out, it actually looks quite nice, even nicer than all my other blogs. In fact, I'm thinking of using this at more places. Here are some screenshots of this blog I had taken some time ago before I made changes that made it look horrible: This format is still being used on my Japanese anime blog , though images had changes. Header image is used at the URL mentioned . Taken earlier. Same as above but with the sides sw

Well, the layout I made slightly more than a month ago for the English version of the anime blog does look nice, but there appears to be problems as when I try to fill it to the entire area of the blog, it would bring problems in other areas. That's the main reasons why I didn't apply it to the Japanese version and only changed the background images and colour. Speaking of that area, if I were to put a widget below the post (not at the very bottom of the blog though), the first widget would mysteriously appear in the empty space of the topmost post below the title of that post. The same might apply to the link to post a comment. Other problems includes the content appearing from the right of the header, especially text/HTML widgets. I tried to fix it, but I can't seem to find the cause of the problem or more problems would happen. I'm thinking of using the current layout of this blog and modify it somewhat: the left sidebar would be removed and the other would be wi

Well, the Nodame Cantabile: Paris (のだめカンタービレ　巴里編) I had watched has nice songs, but unlike Toradora! , finding lyrics for it at this point of time, before the albums of those songs becomes on sale, is next to impossible. Typing ' nodame ed site:wordpress.com ' or ' のだめ 巴里編 OP ' would produce stuff like names of the people involved behind it or some mention of the keywords without them related to what I'm looking for. The next best thing I can find are fansubs at places like YouTube, but those are not clear and may be inaccurate. I also had to type all the text from scratch. Anyways, below is a draft of what I managed to get. It's not yet finalized, but when it is, it should appear on my anime blogs. OP (Sky High) Format: Kanji Romaji (English) Sky high! 僕らは舞い上がる風を見つけた bokura wa maiagaru kaze wo mitsuketa (We discovered the rising winds) 感じる君のメロディ kanjiru kimi no melody (I can feel your melody.) 奏でたら夢がめぐり合う karadetara yume ga meguriau (and when you

Even though my country has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, I still feel uncomfortable when walking home from the bus stop or the train station. Sure, it's not that far and the area in-between is well lighted with mostly houses along the streets, but the dark skies, the eerie silence, the uncertainty and sometimes dogs barking at me loudly when walking past a house, are enough to make me feel scared. Thankfully, nothing bad happened. Well, I know that this is kind of late to post this, but I have created a new story as you can see from my recent posts. Apart from what was already mentioned at the bottom of this post , you might have noticed some similarities on the setting and timeline of the earlier story . It wasn't really intentional. As mentioned, this story is loosely based on the Suzumiya Haruhi light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa (谷川流) or more specifically, the book called "The Disappearence of Haruhi Suzumiya" ( 涼宮ハルヒの消失 ) which is t

On the way to school the following day, I can't help but to overhear people talking about a blog from last night that they had believed to be haunted. Some felt scared, while others say that it could have been typed in advance or by someone close. Others don't seem to care about it. I arrived in class earlier than usual today, but my friends seemed to have reached there earlier. It seems that almost everyone here is talking last night's event, but has no clue as to who is behind it. Homeroom session is about to start. Yukari Takahashi, one of the few classmates who was in the same class as me last year, rushed in as though she was running madly not too long ago. When she saw that the teacher has yet to reach the classroom, she let out a sigh of relief and walked calmly to her seat with a smile on her face. But then again, I had never seen her sad or angry face before. Speaking of feelings, I seem to be able to tell how they really feel, but not what they are thinking, e

If you had been to my Facebook profile, you might have noticed that I have a bunch of notes that if viewed in full mode, it would have at least 19 pages long worth of it. On top of that each post is quite long. While I do try to get rid of duplicates, it still seem quite long. In this screenshot, you can see that I post almost everyday on at least one of my blogs, with several on 10 October. When importing, stuff like colour, text next to the image, font type and size, and whatever non-text/image-based things would be lost when importing. Posts with Japanese text becomes a bunch of numbers for some reason. Since it imports from the RSS feeds of my blogs, some of the formatting might have been already been lost in the RSS version before it is imported into Facebook Notes. That would also mean that the most recent posts (about 20) of each blog would only be imported. Well, a while ago, not long after the above screenshot was taken, I got so caried away that I received a warning mes

虹を追いかけて（英語版） Niji wo Oikakete (English Version) 日本語版 | 英語版 | 更新 | 技術 | アニメ(日本語 ・ 英語) | 自作絵 | ゆかりちゃん Japanese | English | Updates | Technology | Anime (jp / en) | Drawings | Yukari May look different due to the current blog layout. It looks like I need to make some changes to my navigation menu you see across all my blogs. (At the top of this post is the version on this blog at time of post.) Sure it looks better than the earlier version , but there is still room for improvement. During my rare use of IE7, I noticed that there is a weird empty space between the image (mentioned below) and the links, which I don't see on other browsers like Firefox or Safari/Chrome. I don't know if I should fix that, but I would wait for IE8 to be officially released first. I'm also thinking of changing the current image used in it (which is an extracted sprite from a visual novel some time ago) to something else. Could be an avatar used at the sites I go to or a cropped versi