The website is mostly in shape from a content perspective. Further cosmetic updates such as the color paleter adjustment and subtle fixes to the CSS to accomodate IE/Firefox issues are still in the works.

Sometime in 2003 (actually precisely on July 31st, 2003) sneaker.org went dark. It was more on a whim and I really intended on changing some of the layout and the content and then putting it back up again

After over a year of being dark, I’ve decided to slowly turn on the lights again. The old content will still be accessible, however, since the site structure has changes a little, the old links may not work in a 100% of the cases. The site is still taking form, so it may take a couple of days/weeks for all the sections to be operational. But feel free to poke around in the mean while and welcome back 🙂

… than to update my blog! I have an exam in about half an hour, but this is so much more fun to do 🙂

There is some new stuff everywhere. So feel free to check it out. Oh and don’t forget to look at the Stanford pictures. The weather here is perfect, the campus is gorgeous. Why would I want to go anywhere else? (okay, the ratio in the bay area sucks, but that’s a whole other story for another time! 🙂 )

So what really brought me back here today was the fact that I was procrastinating… I have a project due tomorow, but it’s boring — and so I have very little motivation to do it yet. Also, the number of people who mentioned my website to me in the past couple of weeks hit the critical number for me to think about going and updating it. So here I am.

I have been promising for several months that I will go back to writing more regularly that I have been doing. But I haven’t been able to do so for lack of time. Plus I already spend so much time on the computer all day long that I am beginning to see the early-signs of RSI on my hands and so when I do have some time I at least attempt to stay away from the computer or refrain from typing much even if I am at the computer (BTW, using the thumb to press controls keys is a bad idea).

But I am slowly realizing that in the absence of other avenues, blogging is critical to my mental health since it is the vent that lets the excess thinking in my measly little brain escape in to the expanse of the web. The web has become the garbage dump for the thoughts that I cannot or do not share with other humans. There are so many occassion through out each day when I thnk of different things I could post to the web. Thoughts about people. About classes. About feelings (whew, I said that?) About expectations, hopes and disappointments (fromt he macro level to the micro level). But alas either I can’t do a post right there and then, or am too am too lazy to write them down to post about them later. Plus it doesn’t help that the current structure of this site requires me to manually update the information in two places! (I manually copy the blog entries from the blogs listed below to the what’s new blog). So that is something I need to fix in the near future.

Anyhow, the good news is that I have posted some of my more recent thoughts on the blogs and so there is finally some new content! 🙂 And I think in an attempt to maintain my mental health, I will probably try to resort to more frequent posts. The key thing I have to remind myself about from time to time is what I said in the About section of this site. “This site is not for you… it’s for me.” It is for me to post what I think ad feel… and it doesn’t matter what you may think of me for sharing my thoughts.

New in Thought — caught in the act!* as of Tuesday, March 11, 2003.