Deadpoet's Cave

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Month: March, 2006

Metrics

Ever since I switched to WordPress on this domain, I’ve been noticing some unusual site statistics. For example: For a while, I had more visitors from Sweden than from Australia. That’s funny, ‘cos I know many more people Down Udder Under than I do from the land of Ikea. I suddenly have a lot of [...]

Mum’s cake

My mum’s been attending baking lessons. She made this chocolate cake yesterday. Looks soooo tempting! Argh! Those of you who have had the pleasure of tasting my mum’s cooking and baking… you know how hard it is for me to resist. She’s good, and she’s still learning new stuff all the time. UPDATE My mum [...]

Poly days

A word and a phrase I learnt while I was studying Mass Communication at Ngee Ann Polytechnic: Groupthink Groupthink is a term coined by psychologist Irving Janis in 1972 to describe a process by which a group can make bad or irrational decisions. In a groupthink situation, each member of the group attempts to conform [...]

I’m alive

This is just a short post to say that I’m still alive. Been busy with a lot of small things here and there. One of those small things is actually this blog. *You’ve changed your template, again? Yes. Actually, I did more than change my template. You see, WordPress impressed me so much, I decided [...]

Backup Cave

In a recent post, I mentioned I was squatting on a WordPress blog – with my preferred username – just in case I decide to give up on Blogger. Tinkering around with WordPress, I decided to reinstate a backup blog. I used to backup on LiveJournal but stopped for some reason or other. Perhaps I [...]