Refined Design

I’ve been wasting spending a whole lot of time getting my blog set up with its new look in its new home, which is strange considering that the only person who reads this is Steve when he’s bored and locked in the bathroom. Still, I did want to make an actual improvement to the previous incarnation compared to just switching things over. Thus, I spent a considerable amount of time working on the design template, categorizing previous posts, and doing a lot of boring stuff that would make most of you knock your heads against our desks in overwhelmed anguish.

I hope that the result is as satisfying to you as it is to me. I kept in mind Clint’s Design 101 advice to me when he came over last year: black text against a white background is one of the ground rules. I also added the post calendar on the right sidebar, which prompted Mikkel to suggest that I use it as motivation to blog more (“you should be ashamed if there are hardly any dates in blue”). I’ve also added categories to my posts, so for those of you who only want to look at pictures of all the cute girls like Lydia and Anabela, just search for “photos” and all my galleries should pop up.

Take that, Blogger/Google! WordPress rocks! No more stupid error messages that won’t allow me to publish. I’ll be tinkering with it some, but now that things finally look settled I can get back to recording profundities and classic meditations on life and China and the world that can only be found here at sushipanda.com. Take, for example, this fantastic piece of poetry below:

“It’s January in Shanghai and I’m freezing my ass off…indoors, no less! I want my mommy!”

Impressive, isn’t it?