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New design, fixes and back to business!
It has been so long since my last post on this thing that anyone would think I’m dead or something. But I’m far from dead and back with some updates for this forgotten space.
Do you notice any change here? Of course not if this is your first visit, but this design you’re seeing is one of my latest creations. I took the same theme I designed before and modified it further to look just as you’re watching now (you may gonna think it’s ‘fugly’ if you are watching it from Internet Explorer 6, because it doesn’t support PNG transparencies).
Another thing I did was to fix some internal stuff with the blog. There were some database errors that actually prevented me from posting stuff here. After realizing that, I always lose the motivation to write and I was like that for months until now. Now this thing has been fixed and it’s running the latest version of Wordpress.
Finally, I made this website a little bit less blog-centered, since I won’t be always here to write stuff on it. One of the consequences of that is having sections in the sidebar, such as the portfolio section (which is still under construction) and some featured posts. This part is not ready, I want to put content above the blog entries on the homepage to show featured projects (but that will be when I actually have stuff to show).
Let’s see if this modifications and experiments I did will be here to stay.
Oh, as for the new design, feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated.
Getting ready for my last school year
This is a boring post, be warned.
After returning from vacation things had to get back to normal. Recently I’ve been preparing my stuff for this school year, which is going to be my last one in HS since I’m now in Senior year. I guess it will be a tough year for sure; little free time, university entrance exams preparation and other time consuming stuff.
I don’t even know if I will have enough time to write any thoughtful article during the course of the year, but I’ll try to. This isn’t an excuse or anything, but I opened this blog with many different goals in mind (sharing things, writing a how-to, promoting my projects, networking and earning some money through ads if possible).
I left some little website projects unfinished, but I’ll try to put them online before my schedule gets too tight. As for school… classes start tomorrow.
Just received my TOEIC Test Report
The TOEIC test (Test of English for International Communication), evaluates the ability of non-native English speakers in the use of Business English. It’s widely used as a certification tool by thousands of companies worldwide when it comes to measure one’s English proficiency.
Back in November of last year I did that test just for the sake of doing it and while I could see my results online in December, I couldn’t get the certificate until today.
I got 890 points out of 990. Breaking it down into parts, in the Listening Comprehension section I got 430 points and 460 points in the Reading section.
What does that mean? ETS which is the organization behind this test (also the TOEFL and others) host a can-do table which serves as an interpretation of the scores.
This time we had the opportunity to take the test for free since the Chilean Economic Development Agency was paying for it. This is because they want to create a registry of English speakers, in order to attract foreign capital by clearly stating the amount and quality of our human resources. Our data is now also part of a Job Board.
As for me, I’m pretty happy about this… I always wanted to take a test like that, it was for free and I got a good score.
New Year - New Blog
First off, Happy New Year!
I’ve been wondering about writing my own blog for a while, but schoolwork and other things were taking up so much of my time that I couldn’t.
Now since we just started 2008 and here in the southern hemisphere of the world we are on summer break, I thought it was a good idea to go for it this time.