LiveSearch
This search box lets you search through all the blog entries and dynamically returns any hits below, along with a brief excerpt. You can click on a result to be taken directly to that entry.

Livesearch narrows down the query as you type showing only entries that match ALL the words you typed. You can also use modifiers such as the - ("minus" mark) to exclude a word (for example, typing "-japan" will not show any results that have the word "japan" in them) and the * ("asterisk" mark) as a wildcard (so "run*" matches "runt", "runner", "running" and so on.)

Site Search
While Livesearch only searches blog entries, SiteSearch will search the entire site using google. Since this is a service provided by google, it is possible some small text ads may be shown next to the results. This is google's doing, not mine.

Tag Search
This gives you two different ways to visualize the "tags" associated with each blog entry. With the Tag Cloud, all the tags are shown in a large "cloud", with each tag sized relative to the others according to how popular it is. More popular (common) tags appear larger, and less popular tags appear smaller. Tag Frequency displays a linear bar chart of tags in alphabetical order, with the color and size of the bar indicating how often the tag appears in the blog database.

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Syndicate Me
Takes you the page describing the different kinds of RSS "feeds" you can use to subscribe to this blog. This will allow you to automatically receive blog updates without having to manually check the page.

Site Contact
If you have questions, comments or just want to chate with your author, this page will tell you the various ways you can use to get in touch with me.

Style Switcher
This site uses "CSS" to style its design - this means that you can actually change the way it appears without a lot of fuss. This page will show you the different options and "skins" you can apply.

Site Introduction
There is a lot of functionality and various parts to the panda blog. If this is you first time here, or you're feeling a bit overwhelmed, the site FAQ can introduce some of the more useful functions and show you how to use them.

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