I haven’t been placing a closer watch on all my blogs (that’s the problem of having too many of them), and today when I decided to do a bit homework, I found that I was SPAMMED!!

I hate getting spam comments, all for nothing but to link to those companies or whatever websites to increase their ranking in search engines. Luckily there wasn’t a lot, but manually deleting all of them was a pain nevertheless. Once again I appreciate this little blog of mine much better because WordPress has comments moderation feature and keyword match feature to stop spams. I love it..

By clicking on a friend’s blog’s link, I was brought to Globle Voices Online. That actual link from the friend’s page is about Wikipedia being blocked from certain regions/areas of mainland China. But that is not the point here.

What caught my attention first was the green area near the top of all pages, the section that contains links to all regions. I have seen it somewhere!

I cannot remember the name of that type of arrangement. A friend of mine once spent his sleepless nights coming up with a page similar to that for frequencies of words from his AIM chats. Here, the font sizes are proportional to the number of articles related to that keyword. It’s quite neat huh? It’s a visual cue to readers what the popular topics are.

Traditional alternatives to the same result/intention include ranking, marking as bold, highlighting only the top results, etc. However, by displaying information this way, the readers’ experience is un-intruded when they need to go to a particular keyword or for frequent visits.

Work has been wonderful. I am getting things done consistently, feeling productive and useful. But at the same time, I am getting behind in terms of class work.

It doesn’t have anything to do with work work, I guess. I was already slacking off even when work wasn’t so busy a month ago… Now everything has accumulated itself to be something that I can’t handle any more. I dropped a class last week, and now with the pressure of another midterm tonight, I am wondering if I should drop this class as well.

I am not doing terribly bad. After all, the homework will be only 20%. Yet today’s midterm will weight 40%, which I have no confidence in doing well. It’s a useful class. However, I am simply overwhelmed by all the information and processes in class. I feel sick sometimes, when I think about the class and homework.

Should I drop it? I still have 2 hours to consider.