Nostalgic outrage?

Ok, so maybe putting the new layout up before it was finished was a bad idea. Why? Josh saw the code. *Dum dum dum*

That simple little incident was enough to embarrass me into an almost total redesign which I am in the process of doing right as I type this blog post. Speaking of blog posts, I know I haven’t been posting anything recently, but something I came across on the net jolted me out of my non-blogging state.

Everyone’s guilty of googling their own name or past aliases to see what the Great Google Giant has on them, and this afternoon the usual sites came up when I googled “sentinelb“.

Now, sentinelb was the alias I used throughout 2003-2004, when I was in Year 11 and 12, and if you read the blog there you’ll probably find the entries of an angst ridden teenager plagued by constant mood swings. Ha.

Anyway, before I was an angst ridden teen, I was a teen who made pretty layouts for Xanga. Unity in Beige was one layout that was particularly pretty, featuring a very prominent header image, and simple text and color formatting in the body. I used it for a few weeks and then quickly changed my layout, (which is one of my bad habits) and then promptly forgot about it.

Until today.

After googling sentinelb, I clicked on this search result and saw that someone calling themselves sailormei had submitted the code to blogring.net, a site of which I was a member back then.

Judging from the comments, the layout was received really well and was even described as being “a-w-e-s-o-m-e” and “dreamy”.

At first those comments made me feel really warm and fuzzy inside, but then I went looking for the theme, since all I remember of it is that it had a big ying yang in it, and was black white and beige. In the hunt for the image, I found this.

By sailormei!

Ok, the only reason I was mad is because I wanted to be famous in the layout scene back then, but I never was. Looks like I should have submitted Unity in Beige.

Oh well, the past is past, and the last post in that thread was made in 2004 so it’s no use complaining now.

Peace.