Oh no, I was in love with my design template. I could sit and scroll up and down on my newborn blog all day, imagining it was me who created it. It wasn’t, though. Apart from the actual words and the selections I made on the sidebar, everything’s was a standard template - on Wordpress

I think Wordpress has better templates than Blogger. I’m very happy with my Blogger account though - apart from the templates. I don’t want to spend much time on layout, though. I just want something that’s functional and aesthetic - originality is not required. I mean, if I can’t convince you to read the words anyway, there’s not much point to the design, is there? The design must be made so that it doesn’t interfere with the content. And I guess this will have to do.

Speaking of Blogger, I’ve Googlified my life quite recently, and it’s been a wonderful experience. I now have Gmail, Personalized Home, Blogger, Bookmarks, Calendar, Picasa, RSS Reader, and I’ve started collaborations on Google spreadsheets and documents (formerly Writely) - oh yes, and I’ve implemented the Notebook. All this courtesy of Google. All interconnected. All seamless. Combined with a couple of brilliant Greasemonkey scripts in my Firefox, as well as a few add-ons, my browser is essentially a Google browser. I’m thoroughly impressed with the Google project. They’re ominpresent, and they’re so incredibly good at almost everything they do. It’s a bit frightening too, of course. If the rest of the world will follow my example, Google will have access to a lot of personal information, which could surely be misused by people with evil (or overly commercial) intentions. But for now, I’m more impressed than scared.