It’s been only six months since installation, and yet Akismet — a plugin that blocks spam comments on blogs — has prevented 1,000 spam comments on this (quite small) site. Thank Akismet!

I wish all browsers could render CSS 3 text drop shadow. I added this little effect to the header, “Henry’s blog,” and I think it looks pretty cool.

For Twitter users too easily distracted by Twitterific, via a tweet, I found out about a great OS X Dashboard widget called Twitterlex. Its features are pretty much the same as those of Twitterific, but, being a widget, you can easily hide it, so as to stay on track and productive, with just the click of a button.

This is a screenshot of the del.icio.us homepage at about 3:30 PM today. Somehow I’m thinking 7 different CSS galleries is a tad excessive!

Check out this hilarious webcomic from Glen where he comments on the “hip” deodorant Axe (the scent of which many of my male classmates reek smell).

At last, my mountain of homework has been reduced to but a fairly large hill. Don’t you just love school?

Merry Christmas! Ahhh, ’tis my favorite time of the year; what beats getting great presents and eating a big hunk of meat, all in the same day? Woohoo!