Thomil's Random Ramblings

Cork is a university city, whether you like it or not. Whether it is University College Cork, or its slightly less glamorous cousin, the Cork Institute of Technology, both have left an indelible mark on the city. The UCC quadrangle is one of the must-see sights in Cork, while the Lewis Glucksman Gallery is one of the premiere venues for contemporary art in a country that often seems bereft of art in general, but that is a topic for another day. Students are seemingly everywhere, my bus to work in the morning seems to be full of them, and student apartment complexes dot the cityscape. With a student count in the five-digit range for both colleges, the economic impact on the city cannot be denied. And that footprint is likely to increase as more and more people opt to go for a college degree. UCC has become an integral part of the city. From its historic Quadrangle...  to the brutalist elegance of the Boole Library, the city just wouldn't be the same without it. But ...

It lives! For the first time in what seems like ages, Google has decided to give blogger.com a facelift. This is big news. Seriously. As many of you know, I’ve been using blogger.com for both this blog and my original German blog ever since they were started back in 2009 and 2011 respectively, so I have quite some experience with the platform. It’s still a comfortable, easy to use platform, though it does have its limitations, particularly with regards to layouts, integrating image galleries instead of just single images, something that Wordpress easily pulls off. All in all, it’s a good platform though. There’s just one thing. This is how it all started. This was the blogger.com interface until 2011. My first blog was launched this way. Following 2011, things looked a lot more modern. Back then, it was actually a major step forward. It hasn’t seen a lot of care over the years. The last major redesign took place in 2011, the same year this blog was launched, so...