I feel like I should introduce all the new little changes and improvements to the site with some sort of abracadabrian magical utterance worthy of their coolness. But then, it occurs to me that their appearance wasn’t really magical, although it certainly seemed like it. I guess this is what I get for having a brilliant coder and a team of hard-working frogs to run this place from behind the scenes.

Of course, considering the fact that I’ve been sick for the past couple of days (which is very rare indeed in Marius Land), I’ve been focusing more on getting rested and swallowing pills using the correct orifice rather than paying attention to the ongoing construction of the site’s guts. I went to see a doctor yesterday because I ended up missing classes on account of this stupid bug, and he told me that he didn’t like the sound of my left lung.

Now, my immediate reaction, of course, was to make a music joke. Something about the lung being out of tune. But I decided to keep that to myself, figuring I shouldn’t spurt out everything that my fever-addled brain boils up.

As a brief aside, you know that dumb little joke about humans only using 10% of our brain and the other 90% being used to make sure we don’t figure out what the rest is for? Besides making no mathematical sense, I have to disagree with that conclusion because it has recently come to my attention, having collected copious amounts of evidence during my suffering, that most of our brain must be used for storing mucus when we have a cold/flu/out of tune left lung.

Seriously, I am amazed at how many times I can blow my nose and not exhaust the supply of boogers. Is no one else impressed and slightly worried by this? Are there scientists out there working on re-allocating my brain space from snot storage to things like mathematical ability or understanding women? I sure hope so.

Maybe this is common knowledge among people who’ve been sick more often and I’m just behind the times.

Oh well.

Anyway, back to the site. Besides the fancy coverflow on the front page, which will henceforth highlight all the most notable projects from my portfolio, you may also notice the addition of several new portfolio pages for various recent (and not so recent) projects. All of this translates into more music to listen to, so don’t forget to drop by the Portfolio page and take a listen on your way out. Soon, I hope to have the video section of the portfolio up and running too so that some of my film scoring work can have its showcase, so keep your eyes peeled for that.

If you want an easy way to keep track of updates and news from Mathazzar Studios, the best way to do it is to subscribe to the RSS feed which is now active. If you haven’t done so already, feel free to sign yourself up to get all Journal updates delivered straight to your inbox as soon as they go live.

In the meantime, enjoy the updates in the portfolio and wish me luck fighting off this bloody flu and getting my lung re-tuned!