We’ve recently moved our office to a new building and I have to agree that the new location is definitely better. It’s bigger, has a conference room, its own male and female restrooms and its across several food establishments, including Starbucks! ^^

The crowning point that cinched it was something that made me wince in chagrin. The new office is right across the building where I used to take my Japanese classes! And I mean, literally, across the street, a mere 3 meters from the entrance of our building.

Is this the universe’s way of telling me that I should continue with my nihonggo classes? ^_^

I know I should be grateful that they’re indexing my sites frequently. That would mean that we’re getting more exposure and more people visit the site.

But should their indexing take up so much bandwidth?! I mean for one subdomain alone, we got 14gb of used bandwidth within 7 days. Isn’t that insane? Shouldn’t our bandwidth be reserved for people who actually have an interest on our site, rather than robotic machines that only report back to google about our pages?

Bandwidth doesn’t come for free; in fact, it’s rather expensive if any exceeded bandwidth is not part of your hosting plan. How expensive? Just imagine that a few months ago, this blog racked up 100gb of bandwith, and yes, just for this little blog alone.

Now our hosting package only allows for 20gb per month and that’s more than enough for us. Unfortunately, we didn’t expect the googlebot to ransack it.

How about using the robots.txt file? People say it works.

It doesn’t. I tried it for several months and it did stabilize my bandwidth towards the middle but in the end my bandwidth is still sky-rocketing.

Now if only I knew how to stop googlebot from sucking up our bandwidth and yet not lose our page ranking in google. T_T

Oh gawds. New layout! *trumpets blaring* It took up the better half of the day in making this new layout. Not because of the graphics, mind you. Again, it was my failing in CSS. I even asked Michan on how to get it right but in the end I remembered that I made something similar in a previous site I had before. *kicks self*

My feeling towards the new layout? I want to smoosh it! Yes, there’s no such word, so bear with me. The inspiration for this had been a long time coming, with browsing on a whole lot of sites for inspiration and even pictures. The cat pictures you saw before are the unfortunate products of my designing block. I even rummaged through my stash of stationeries, which horrifies me to admit that I still have today. And in truth the layout does remind me of a stationery letterhead. ^^

Sidenote: I still haven’t figured out something witty to put in the Girl section up top. Poke me if you have any ideas. And, though I’ve already checked them, if there are some areas that look awry, let me know.

So is there a purpose for this rant? Well, I still have an addition, no matter how measly. Here’s an avatar of Tamaki Suou of Ouran Koukou Host Club. ^^