Rough Groove

The new look of ROUGH GROOVE

I’m finally done with redesigning this blog, ROUGH GROOVE! This Wordpress theme is a ready made design by Jai Nischal Verma named Statement. I like this one. It’s simple and the colors are subdued. It’s clean and organized. However, I made some minor adjustments to suit my needs:

• removed the infobar
• changed the width of the left column to 600px and the sidebar to 320px
• originally, there were two sidebars (left and right) but I removed the other
• changed the footer to have the meta/admin menu

I’ve already added Google Adsense and, like what I’ve done with my other blogs, added photo links to my other sites as can be seen at the sidebar. The next few days will be some tweaks and adjustments and I will be adding the Google Search as well as RSS above. Now, I can proceed with other important tasks.

Time to retire, you’ve served me well

It’s frayed, worn out and creased. The lines betrayed its age. I looked at my Marithé+François Girbaud wallet and didn’t realize that it’s been quite a while that this one has been with me. One year? More than a year? I couldn’t remember anymore. I should be ashamed!

Anyway, I’ve always been a fan of this brand’s wallet. I like its soft feel and have been using it for quite a number of years already. Good thing that when I went to the Glorietta branch, they have these for sale at less than 10% that it only cost me P675.

Time to retire now. You’ve served me well.

langyaw.com is one year old!

Movies watched: July 08

From the 40 movies watched last June, I’ve put on the brakes and limited it to 7 movies only. These are from the Philippiens, Thailand, China and the US with three seen at the cinema.

The Dark Knight was just awesome! Its dark and complex and the late Heath Ledger’s performance was really disturbing but well executed.

Rome & Juliet - Connie Macatuno, 2006 (Philippines)
Faet (Alone) - Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom, 2007 (Thailand)
We Own the Night - James Gray, 2007 (US)
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Eric Brevig, 2008 (US)
Hancock - Peter Berg, 2008 (US)
The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan, 2008 (US)
Tau ming chong (Warlords) - Peter Chan & Wai Man Yip, 2007 (China)

The new look of simbahan.net

Following in the heels of two major theme redesign of Langyaw and Binary Silver, I’ve now updated my simbahan.net blog. Like Langyaw, I’m using Michael Jubel’s great magazine style theme arthemia2. Its an elegant work that compares well to premium themes or even much better.

The changes I’ve implemented is the same but I’ve also modified the number of categories that can be accommodated at the browser bar from five to eight. I’ve also switched to another color for the links. The footer has also been edited with the center column made widget ready by removing the “most commented.” One last thing, trackbacks are now separated from the comments section and is now cleaner and organized.

The next few days will be spent finetuning the site by adding some adsense ads, google search and some other widgets. With three blogs already redesigned, Rough Groove (this blog) will be next but not immediately.