Well here we are. Something Changed has finally had a redesign!

The new layout is 99% borrowed from Gentle Calm by Phu Ly — thank you. The main alteration is the header image, cropped from a photo taken in the Singapore Botanical Gardens, and some alterations to the style-sheet.

As before, Something Changed runs on the awesome CMS system Text Pattern.

There are a few bugs around; Clicking on full-article view or comments brings up the Search page, and the Sidebar navigation links to empty pages. All in good time, but here’s to some action her at Something Changed.

When I first bought my Trek 7700 bicycle back in 2002, I decided that 21,000 kilometres would be a good distance to cycle to get the value out of the bike. Well, I finally made that figure today.

In that time the bike has had one service, way back at 8,800 kilometres. I’m thoroughly impressed with how well the bike has run so far.

I finally cycled around the full perimiter of Singapore in a single ride yesterday. I paced myself and ate well (had a large brekky, rice lunch, a rice meal (Indian curry) at Kranji, and finally the all-important Snickers bar and 100 plus at Jalan Buroh 26 km before home).

As expected I got caught in the rain, dried off, then got caught in the rain again. No puntures, a few dogs chasing me, a few idiot drivers, pretty much a run-of-the-mill ride.

Here are some stats and facts:

• Distance cycled: 155.15 km
• Cycling time: 6 hours, 19 minutes
• Time including stops: 7 hours, 15 minutes (1.30pm to 8.45pm)
• Average speed: 24.54 km/hour
• The route taken: Kampong Kayu Road-Mountbatten Road-Fort Road-East Coast Park-Changi Coast Walk-Changi Coast Road-Nicoll Drive-Telok Paku Road-Loyang Avenue-Pasir Ris Drive 3- Pasir Ris Drive 12-Tampines Avenue 10-Tampines Link-Tampines Road-Hougang Avenue -Upper Serangoon Road-Sengkang East Avenue-Sengkang West Avenue-Jalan Kayu-Edgeware Road-East Camp Road-Seletar Club Road-Yishun Avenue 1-Yishun Avenue 6-Yishun Avenue 7-Yishun Avenue 2-Sembawang Road-Admiralty Road East-Admiralty Road West-Admiraly Road-Woodlands Center Road-Woodlands Road-Kranji Road-Kranji Loop-Kranji Way-Neo Tiew Road-Lim Chu Kang Road-Jalan Baha-Jurong West Avenue 5-Pioneer Road North-Upper Jurong Road-Benoi Road-Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim-Tuas West Drive-Tuas South Avenue 1-Tuas South Avenue 3-Tuas South Avenue 5-Tuas South Avenue 14-Tuas South Avenue 9-Tuas South Avenue 6-Tuas South Avenue 5-Tuas Crescent-Tuas Basin Link-Tuas Road-Pioneer Road-Shipyard Road-Jalan Buroh-West Coast Highway-Pasir Panjang Road-Telok-Blangah Road-Keppel Road-Anson Road-Robinson Road-Collyer Quay-Fullerton Road-Esplanade Drive-Nicoll Highway-Stadium Road-[footbridge over Geyland River]-Tanjong Rhu Place-Tanjong Rhu Road-Geylang Park Road-Kampong Kayu Road

Conclusion: my legs are sore and roads here seem to change names every block.

My fairly out-dated cycling page is here .

Here ’s an album of some photos taken over the last year or so that aren’t already in an album.

Do you ever feel like your electronic life is filled with spam? Well don’t worry, because you’re not the only one.

This site attracts very few comments, due of course to the abnormal shyness of the throngs of people who come here every day. So few comments that I wonder whether the comment function (or the ‘what the hell do you have to say?’ function) works at all. Well I no longer have to worry, thanks to Mr. Seventeen Comments pointing to some scam site. Thanks bud.

I manage a multitude of web sites, ranging from sub-sites for [cut!]. This all feels good (buzzzzz). But you know what I spend much of my time doing? Fending off crap traffic (AKA spam and his friends).

I transferred several such sites to a new server today, in an operation that aged me many years. After the first short while I have about 17,000 spam hits and all of 1,000 legitimate hits. Thanks fellas! Think I’ll buy me some v!a9ruh tonight. These mofos slow down the Internet for all of zilch gain. Sods.