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Read my writing and clicked my clipping, now it's time to hear me rambling... To be frank, I'm too lazy to sit in front of computer writing stuff. This might be the perfect solution, so listen...
I haven't had the chance to integrate the overall site style into the ramblinglogue section yet. It will be done soon... hopefully.
After I finished this website, I decide to move all the logues (as in normal name 'blog') to here from the original BLOGGER. However, I don't have enough time to sort every post to appropriate categories yet. Some of them will go to Pandora's Box and most of them stay open to public. You can see part of the my posts before Feburary 01, 2004 on theLOGUE.com already.
After seeing some websites, there are more and more people getting spamming in the comment section of the log. I'd better add this protection earliear than later. The great thing about the plugin MT-Blacklist doesn't need any modification to the template.
I redid the templates for ReviewLOGUE. At the sametime, the BookLOGUE will be an individual section. All the changes are reflected in the main menu.
I originally adopted the rating methods done by Martin Sutherland, he did a great job, but I didn't like the redundancy of his code. I changed the whole mechanism to rate books and eliminated the usage of MTKEY plugin. At the sametime, instead of using categories such as "book rating 5, book rating 4...", I use only one category "book" and assign the rating to MTEXCERPT. This greatly reduces the work needed to setup the rating system. I will take sometime later to write a tutorial.
After a few days work, I finally finished the main work on the structure of the site. With the days passing by, more content will be added. Just as the name of the site suggested, I LOGUE (log) things happening in my life, films that touched me deeply, music I enjoy and much more.
How do I get the name "theLogue.com"? Well, since it's mainly a blog which is the abbreviation of "weblog" which is the abbreviation of "web log", it's more appropriate to call it "the LOG(UE)" than anything else. I have been struggling coming up with the actual domain name for a while. It all happened one early morning around 2 o'clock when I were reading the book called "What should I do with my life" by Po Bronson (check the bookhistory section). When I laid my eyes on the word "Travelogue" in one story, I suddenly realized that's the idea I was looking for... A logue can not only record travel experiences, it can also logue life in every aspect such as thoughts, writing and other stuff. I was so excited that I finally find one domain name I like, and LOVE more importantly.
"When I laid my eyes on the word "Travelogue" in one story, I suddenly realized that's the idea I was looking for... "
Now, about the Chinese characters in the banner. You might be wondering what those one white and one crimson chinese words mean. Here is the story. The first white character is pronounced as /lu/ and means "to record". It's THE perfect word to be used in the banner in the way it sounds like "logue" and carries the actual meaning of "logue". The crimson character is pronounced as /lu/ too and means "1.a path; a road; 2.a journey; 3.a way; a means". The logue will record my journey down the road. So when you put the two word together, "Lu Lu" means "record journey".
Till now, you get the whole picture of the website. I will keep it updated. Come back to visit me soon. :)
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