Tuesday, October 28, 2008
what i did today
oh! family is back from work. must pretend to be studying. toodles!
looks like spellcheck on wordpress sucks.
BUT! wordpress lets you customise the text colour. :D and wordpress also lets you unlink any stuff you've linked, but blogger doesn't (i guess it's easy enough to just delete it..) oh and how awesome, wordpress has emoticons in the posts!! whereas on blogger it just stays as colon capital D...
darn.. all my old posts on my windows live blog can't be imported!
:( :'( :) :P ;)
Monday, October 27, 2008
blogger vs. wordpress
blogger is probably easier to navigate and use. wordpress is quite technical.
blogger has less attractive templates, and a lot less choice. wordpress templates are very attractive and lots of choice.
blogger categories have number indicating how much it was used, wordpress doesn't *unless u move mouse over it)
blogger can't attach videos from the internet, but wordpress can.
blogger allows you to add more widgets, wordpress allows very limited.
blogger has no tracking of stats of views, but wordpress does.
blogger's links to other blogs also include a snippet of the latest post, but for wordpress there is no preview, just a list. *unless u move mouse over it*
blogger lets you edit all the little gadgets, like your bloglist, right from the blog, no need to go somewhere else, whereas for wordpress, you have to go to some other webpage (not your blog) to edit gadgets.
blogger allows you to have different types of blog lists. and so does wordpress!
that is all for now. i will add more.
Preamble
After having spent a considerable amount of time surfing food blogs, I was inspired to create one myself. My name is Bonnie Lau, and I had studied Landscape Architecture at university for one semester before quitting as I realised how much I disliked it. After deliberating over a range of alternative career paths, I finally decided to become a dietitian. So that would be nurturing the soul through means of food rather than the beauty of nature! It was excruciatingly difficult for me to choose, because I am the sort of person with numerous passions in life, visual art, humanities, science, language, teaching, and of course, food. I guess being a dietitian had always been one of those things that I shoved to the back of my mind (when my friend Linda had told me she wanted to do that when we were in Year 10, I had thought it was a cool career), for I had assumed I would not be knowledgeable enough in the field of science. But if one persists, anything is possible. I hope that my abiding love of food, even as a child, and inner desire to help others attain good health, will help to guide me to a fulfilling career.
But on to less weighty matters, this is a food blog that I will try to maintain amidst my studies. Some posts may be about recipes I would like to share, about particular foods I love, about my gastronomical adventures, about interesting facts on nutrition that I may have learnt… Anything related to food, really! One thing you’ll notice though, is that my food blog will be less photo-intensive than others, because I can’t call myself a pro photographer, and in all honesty, I think I’m more interested in ideas and notions than pretty pictures (although they do help!).
I hope that I can share my journey as a foodie and aspiring dietitian with you all.