Welcome to Chromewaves.net v3.0. I’ve spent the better part of the weekend redesigning and rebuilding everything… December 1 seemed like as good a day as any to kick things off. Besides the cosmetic changes this thing now runs on Nucleus CMS – bye bye Blogger – you served me well but I wanted something a little more flexible and controllable.

I think I’ve gotten everything working now – the archives are tidier and more robust than the old ones and there’s a neat search function if you want to see how many times I’ve talked about hamsters. Some of the posts in the archives seem to be a little out of order, but I don’t think it’s a big deal. One of the hiccups in transferring all my older entries from Blogger to Nucleus.

I’m sure there’ll be more debugging necessary – a lot of the admin functions are still not fully functional, but the front end seems pretty solid. If anyone finds anything busted or not working as it should, leave me a comment on this post or email or something. Merci.

np – Sonic Youth / Daydream Nation

HA!

I am the #1 result on Google for ‘Frank Yang’! A couple days ago, I wasn’t even on the first 5 pages! From out of nowhere, I now reign supreme.

np – The Velvet Crush / Free Expression

It’s nice to have one’s own personal shopper… Okay, it wasn’t quite like that but I was taken clothes shopping by Vic’s girlfriend Liz today. Or yesterday. I’d mentioned mostly in jest a few weeks ago how much I hate shopping for clothes because I never know what to buy, and she said she’d take me shopping – turns out she was serious. Terrific – my ideal shopping trip would be someone telling me what to buy (with my having veto power if necessary), and that was today. Came out of it with a couple sweaters and a shirt. Not a lot, but nice stuff that has the approval of someone besides myself since I don’t think I can be trusted on such matters.

After shopping we hooked up with Vic and Ian and ended up picking up booze and going back to my place, intending to watch Leon – The Professional. Instead we ordered pizza and got drunk. Some aborted attempts at drinking games, some geek computer talk (more Ian and Vic than me, I don’t know what they’re talking about). Sorta planned on going out, Kevin and Sudeep also came over under that pretense, but it was just more sitting around and drinking. Which is fine.

Dundas Square at Yonge and Dundas, across from the Eaton Centre, is now open. At least the fences have been taken down and people can wander around in it now. There’s… not much there. It’s a great big expanse of asphalt. Some benches, a canopy of some kind, but pretty barren. Not sure what the overall purpose of the ‘park’ is. It looks pretty much like the picture, but somehow I thought it’d look less gray. Maybe it was partly the dreary overcast weather today, though I can’t imagine it’d look much more vibrant in the sunlight. Colour me perplexed.

George Harrison died a year ago today.

I have this bitching Code Monkey t-shirt en route from Think Geek.

Fun link – We Are Robots. Robokopf is a personal fave.

Anyone who can offer a translation of this, please do.

np – The Velvet Underground / Peel Slowly And See – The Velvet Underground