For patron accounts, I've added one new feature: linkbacks. Any time a Tabulas user posts an entry that links to a particular entry of yours, you'll see it appear in the comment view of a page. This will help you discover who's talking about your entries on Tabulas, and it is a way to encourage you to link to other's posts as well!

I've also started processing Tabulas entries for the "Related" entries feature - for those of you who don't know, this is a magical feature which will try to find "related" entries that you've written. Sometimes it's accurate, sometimes it's not. But it's fun to see what entries will show up

Related entries are processed nightly, so you may have to wait a bit to get related entries. All patron account should have had their entries processed, though.

School is starting and I'm back in La Jolla. My feet are freezing.

Unpacking and organizing my stuff is the worst.

and did I mention that my feet are freeeezing? How did I manage to forget my ugly but warm slipper socks??

I wish my place had insulation so using heating wouldn't be such a waste.

"Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done." (Philippians 4:6 NLT)

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1. Don’t worry about anything. Worrying doesn’t change anything. It’s stewing without doing. There’s no such thing as born worriers; worry is a learned response. You learned it from your parents. You learned it from your peers. You learned it from experience. That’s good news. The fact that worry is learned means it can also be unlearned. Jesus says, “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today” (Matthew 6:34 NLT).

2. Pray about everything. Use the time you’ve spent worrying for praying. If you prayed as much as you worried, you’d have a whole lot less to worry about. Some people think God only cares about religious things, such as how many people I invite to church or my tithing. Is God interested in car payments? Yes. He’s interested in every detail of your life. That means you can take any problem you face to God.

3. Thank God in all things. Whenever you pray, you should always pray with thanksgiving. The healthiest human emotion is not love, but gratitude. It actually increases your immunities; it makes you more resistant to stress and less susceptible to illness. People who are grateful are happy. But people who are ungrateful are miserable because nothing makes them happy. They’re never satisfied; it’s never good enough. So if you cultivate the attitude of gratitude, of being thankful in everything, it reduces stress in your life.

4. Think about the right things. If you want to reduce the level of stress in your life, you must change the way you think. The way you think determines how you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act. So if you want to change your life, you need to change what you’re thinking about.

This involves a deliberate, conscious choice where you change the channels. You choose to think about the right things: focus on the positive and on God’s Word. Why? Because the root cause of stress is the way you choose to think.

When we no longer worry, when we pray about everything, when we give thanks, when we focus on the right things, the apostle Paul tells us the result is, “The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7 NLT).

What a guarantee! He is guaranteeing peace of mind.

What a perfect New Year reminder from Rick Warren =)

lol thanks citiprogram for bolding the correct answer for me. At first I thought it was a mistake and the answer was wrong, but it's right. Now if only theyd bold the rest of the answers for me.

btw, happy new years folks. Mass texts suck, so thank goodness I have a texting plan.

One of the bigger complaints I've gotten about the control panel redesign is the lack of accurate hit logging. To that end, I've added back one of the more popular features for patron accounts: viewing your recent visitor traffic logs.

Because of server limitations, you can only view your last 72 hours worth of data, but the data it provides should give you a better idea of where your traffic is coming from.

Check it out in your control panel.

Hellooooo Tabulas!

I am typing this post on an allllll new reformatted laptop. lol. It's just like having a new laptop, minus the ugly shell (I have such an ugly laptop. buy me new one plzzzkthx)

I've been meaning to reformat this slowslow laptop for a while now, and what is a better time to do this than during break, right? Plus, I never wanted to do reformat because I didn't have an external harddrive so I would have to single handedly move all of my files to another computer via 4 GB flash drive. Hecka slow, right? I'd say so.

But luckilyyy, I talked to my friend Eric and he lent me his passport external to save me from days of transferring files and now I have a clean, superfast laptop . . . minus all of the programs I had before like Word 2007. Don't worry, I'll get them back somehow >:0.

I must say though, the worst things about reformatting is:

• I lost all of the playcounts on my Windows Media Player. I was really proud of my 922 times played songs!
  
• I lost all of my programs
• I lost all of my bookmarks (Why didn't I think to back that up?)
  
• I lost all of my ridiculous customizations to my laptop and must somehow restore every little thing I've changed (I'm superficial and change everything D: )
  
• I lost the silly Windows Vista bubbles screensaver I downloaded for my XP, and I have no ideaa where I got it from
• And worst of all, I have to completely update my windows, meaning Windows Service Pack 1 must install . . only to find that there is a Windows Service Pack 2 available . . . and then a Service Pack 3! Seriously man, why couldn't they just detect that Service Pack 3 was available and install that one so I don't have to restart my computer a milllllion times. 

For now while all of this updates, I will enjoy my superfast laptop and perhaps finish them online classes for lab since school is starting next week. At least I got my used book in the mail today, which by the way, looks untouched! What a steallllll.

..sana nga lang true na..and sana magtagal..=D

Merry Christmas Tabulas!

I really should update soon, but there's never anything too too interesting that happens over break.

Anywho, to celebrate this holiday, I've made asian tamales (no really, they are the mexican tamales, but my mom knows how to make everything taste asian), watched A Christmas Story a couple of times, Tokyo Godfathers, and I am probably just going to continue taking my super super boring online classes so I can get my permananet badge to work at the hospital. What a way to spend Christmas.

I just think it's kind of ridiculous when I already have a ton of pages of modules to read . . . and I get an email telling me that I have to take an additional 2 more online classes -- except these extra classes use flash and have people talking to me. Oh yay