A brief tour of new features

If you are a somewhat frequent reader of this blog, you’ll notice a couple of changes on this page.

Let your eyes wander to the right and you’ll catch a glimpse of computerized nature. Little fishies! Originally there were six fish, all black except one green one. That symbolized my family: I have six members in my family; the black ones were they and the green one was I. But then Ate Sherry wanted her fishie to be red, so I made the change. So that was the first modification on this page.

As I looked for more to add, to make the visit to my blog more exciting, if my words need back-up singers, I remembered how I used to have a word-of-the-day calendar. It occurred to me that I should put up something similar. Boom: health tip of the day. I figured, with obesity on the rise (the most in the United States), why not try to help the elimination and prevention of this epidemic through this feature. Inspired by Jason Mraz with his tendency to help the world, I instantly picked this tip of the day over many others.

If you are like me, you like to listen to music while surfing the web for reasons, not purely academic. In the words of Nacho Libre, “Es for fun.” With that being said, I installed a youtube feature so that you can listen to music while reading the blogs. Or, if I suggest a cool youtube video or any other interesting bit of information in a blog, you can use the youtube feature to look it up right away. In that sense, the feature serves as easy access to my references. Or, if my blog bores you – God forbid – then I’ll humbly step down and let you run off to that feature. Like Cobus Potgietier (check out his drum covers on youtube (wink, wink); they’re the awesomest and it’s from him that I get new drum ideas) said, and probably someone else before him, “I aim to please.” It’s the least I could do.

If you’re not into fake, natural fish, or youtube, I figured I’d show you the kind of music that I like by also putting up a feature that plays alternative rock songs. I don’t know how this relates to the previous features mentioned, i.e. the kind of music I like, but it’s just fun to have (can I be a little bit selfish?). But, I don’t like all alternative rock songs, though I must say that the songs of that type of music are the ones that are most pleasant to have in my head. I kind of also like acoustic, but only if it’s Jason Mraz acoustic; I think he is one of the best performers and entertainers (it’s a personality/soothing voice type of thing). If it’s acoustic and someone else, most likely, I’ll be turned off.

So, in this blog, I’m just giving you a brief tour of the new and improved site. I hope you all enjoy it. Eh, it might change again in the future.