Synaptic Sugar

It has now been one year since the birth of this blog, and I must say it’s been an invaluable tool for expressing my personal interests and sharing knowledge and pseudo-randomness with any like-minded reader. Availability of time to blog has fluctuated through highs and lows, and perhaps at times the level of topics discussed has followed the same path; but that is to be considered a feature, rather than a bug. In a year this blog has grown to a moderate success in ratings, and for that I can only thank my readers. I hope you will stay tuned to this channel and will find further stimuli for discussion or thought in these pages; whatever the case, I’m going to keep dumping here summaries of what I find of interest in the universe and beyond. If you care to listen, there are some available chairs over there and some fresh coffee on that table in the back.

I’ll admit this post makes more sense to my Italian audience and probably little or none to anyone else, but it was clearly my duty to publish it to render a public service. It’s possible to reach this blog, like the rest of the Web, searching for various keywords on the most renown search engines, keywords that may or may not have anything to do with the content of the posts, according to how the different engines like to index the site. At times, what is searched for may leave me slightly perplexed, since it has nothing to do with what may be a topic of this blog; that’s the case for “Milla and Sugar”, apparently two comic book characters, whom I don’t know, but who have starred in several forms in searches that brought users here more than fifty times in 2007 (thus a greater number of times that the string “Synaptic Sugar” did, as it stands, according to my statistics, at forty times).

Unfortunately there’s nothing here about Milla and Sugar, but for some reason many still keep on looking here for those two little girls; I can only point at the exit and give directions on where to go, for example towards the following link that is pointing to (I believe) the main webpage of Milla and Sugar. I hope it helps.

In more blog-related news, the theme used on Synaptic Sugar is now widget-ready, thanks to more help from Garden (and thanks to the Wordpress developer crew for making it easy to add tags and widget support to properly-written themes (in this case I suppose I should also thank the author of the Washme 2.0 theme that is used here, so here’s thanks to everyone)). Additionally, I’ve tweaked the theme CSS a little to better suit my taste. Let me know what you think of the new features/look, and if you’d like to see more changes.

You might have noticed in the past few days that this blog now categorizes posts using tags in addition to the traditional categories. This was made possible thanks to the recent addition of tagging support in Wordpress, but also thanks to Garden’s help in manually adding tag support to the theme I’m currently using (I tried to contact its author to ask about an updated release but got no answer). As a result, I’ve (very slowly) added tags to all the previous posts, although they might change at any time. Additionally, thanks to Garden’s and Rob’s help, some bugs in the jLanguage plugin have been fixed (again, no luck when trying to contact its author).

I’ve revised slightly the About this blog page to clarify some guidelines on the usage of this blog (for blog-reading beginners) and a couple legal statements. As a convenience to the audience, this post serves as a public notice that on this date there have been changes. Have a nice day.