Updating Others thru The Office Chronicles

My attention was called by someone, I won't name him/her anymore (so sue me!), because allegedly people from AB&C (even that's something!) are super updated with the happenings in The Office. Hmmm. Would you wonder too if you read this blog and you're NOT updated?

I'd say "allegedly" since not all my posts in The Office Chronicles are cross-posted to my multiply account. This whistle-blower person sounded so concerned with the degree of updated-ness (if there's such a word..) that people in AB&C are currently into. When I asked this whistle-blower person what things were the AB&C people "updated" in, he/she (hehehe, bite me.) said that they told him/her that they knew he/she was in where he/she is in right now. Goodness, this sounds as if it's nonsense, but if you're directly involved in this situation, I believe you'd understand perfectly.

Anyway, so I asked, What's the use of a blog, if I can't write something to the effect of which it was initially created? What's the use of The Office Chronicles if I can't document what's going on in the office? Right? hahaha. Gotcha.

So let's go to the juicy updates. peace out whistle-blower person! I won't say anything about you. It's just that... you sounded so concerned I thought Ms Other Person already knew about T.O.C. ...

First off, there's always a scheduled First Friday Mass and departments are assigned to be sponsors. This time it was Finance, and guess what happened: only a few people attended - so few and late, at that, that Father also started late. Then there's the unpreparedness we all are so familiar with - this is not exclusive to Finance, mind you but then the people assigned to handle the different phases/tasks for the mass were not even there! It was so crazy that even the fruits to be "offered" came down late!

Hmm, and then there's also the bible study, which of course, would always have fewer audiences than that off Catholic religious rituals and ceremonies. Unless of course it's a born again church we're talking about - which this is NOT. So there were about, lemme see, 4-6 participants on the average. I wonder if the number of attendees would change if the facilitator also changes.

Others, others.... I believe I can't mention other details due to a sensitivity issue. And there's also confidentiality. If I divulge more, I might have to close T.O.C sooner or later. We don't want that to happen, right?

Re-arranging The Blue Speckled Diary

Even if all my fingers feel as stiff as pens, I would just like to inform everyone that I trying to re-arrange my blog a bit to rid of some of the clutter, plus, I might be crazy enough to add some bits and pieces of my own designs like that of my blog header...{Thank you, thank you...*ehem*}

It took me a while to recover some styling I've managed to single-handedly ruin after several trials of uninstalling intense debate. Nonetheless, most are already up and running, some were already overhauled, and some are well.... still to come.

Anyway, to all my subscribers, please take note that I have changed my feed URL so there may be a problem with what you're receiving via email - although I'm not entirely sure. Here's the new feed URL. So please update your subscriptions.

And all the tweaks I've done so far, if and when I remember how I did them and to post them, then I will so that everybody would know about it, especially those who are just starting to blog and are not really hardcore programmers, so just stay tuned and subscribe to my posts.

And also, I'm planning on posting more of those school project thingys like the "Salawikain" post, so that's a head's up. You can also suggest topics that you would like me to post here so that you can easily copy it down and submit it to your teacher. Or later on, I might - just might - put on a function that will allow you to directly print my post! Hehe, nice.

Again, if there are comments you'd like me to read or to reply to, or school projects you'd like posted here, then go ahead and leave me a freakin' comment.

Using a Calendar Icon instead of Post Date

Got the codes from -here- and I added other things to make sure that the alignment and spaces match my blog:

To adjust the placing of the date header itself so that it's aligned with my post title, I added these below the date header codes (h2):

width: 50px;
height: 50px;
float: left;
padding-top: 30px;

And to adjust the placing of the month and date inside the calendar icon, I added this to the .month block:

padding-top: 3px;


And, that's it! You can go ahead and try it out for your own blog!

Boy Abunda is in Zamboanga Sibugay

I don't have the faintest idea what he's doing there, but apparently, he's there.

Mommy said he's there to do a documentary for our Congresswoman Ann Hofer. I also don't know why - yet. Later I will, don't you worry.

Anyway, just for perks... A girl relative is gonna have her homecoming to our beloved Zamboanga Sibugay because she's going to wed this December. (Got the word from my mom. ) Hopefully, I should be able to attend the ceremony. It's been a long time since the two of us talked to each other, let alone sent SMSs.

Oh, well...

An Office-Crasher on the Loose!!!!

Help! Someone went inside our office uninvited!!!!

Fresh from a long weekend and guess what I found immediately upon opening our office door! Someone (or maybe something? I dunno...) had calmly entered our office and "used" our things. And because of my flaring temper - which I also held back enough to think clearly about what I will put into the memo - I have had to issue another memo to several department heads early this morning telling them how I came about noticing that several of our things inside our LOCKED office where out of place and apparently used by someone who has obviously gone inside the office and probably used these things and how that NO ONE is allowed to enter our office anymore unless one of us is present, or at least with my knowledge and permission.

What things? You're asking me what things? Well, I found the one and only plastic chair in our office was not in its usual nook. I saw it facing the mirror mounted on the door already with my blue pillow on it. The next thing I saw was RM's laptop's power cord, which I remember he wound and bound and placed on his table, was already attached to his laptop and plugged into our AVR. Good thing that someone remembered to turn off the AVR. Or maybe he/she/whatever did not know exactly how to turn it on in the first place.

So because I was a bit irked, I issued the memo which basically stated that:

Entry to the ** office by our ** staff or any non-** personnel during the off-hours or beyond office hours is no longer allowed, even with Security escort - unless at least one of the ** personnel is with him/her.

That should serve them right. PLUS, I pulled out our key from the Security Office, so no one else can even grant entry to our office - aside from us of course.

Picking the Right Planner for 2009

It's already November, just about the right time to think about planning for a planner.

I made a post previously about a JOURNAL and compared it to the famous Starbucks Planner, highlighting its pros and cons to just about help us to decide whether we should consider it or not. So far, very few has visited the post and left comments, so I'm again urging you to at least have a peek at it to help you decide whether you'd want it or not - instead of spending much on coffee and having your blood reek of caffeine.

There are other planners out there, but I think you should give The JOURNAL a try.

NOTE: Don't forget to leave your comments ON THIS POST!

How to Add an Animated Image to the Post Title in Blogger

I couldn't find a tutorial on how to add random images to the post title so I decided to just add an animated image instead.

The file extension of the animated image is .GIF and I managed to locate an online conversion page in gifninja.com. Fortunately, the instructions are very well understandable and easy to perform.

Next, I tweaked my layout codes by adding this to my post title code (in my layout it's .post h3)

background: url('IMAGE_URL_HERE') no-repeat right center;

so that the image can be placed smugly at the rightmost part of the post title center aligned (so it doesn't quite get in the way of the post title itself). Don't forget to change to insert your image URL in the area specified in the code - (see the line in red)![Finish this post by clicking on "Read the rest of the story here..."]


Next to adjust the post title dimensions, I added these:

height: 70px;
width:550px;

And changed the padding and margin declarations into these:

margin-top: 0px;
margin-$endSide: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-$startSide: 0px;
padding-top: 30px;
padding-$endSide: 50px;

So what you see is the animated image in my post title.
Just try adjusting your dimensions to accommodate the visual idea that you want to show. Nice eh? Any comments?