Give us your suggestions!

*Too long? Don't want to read anything? Here's the link.

Today, I'm here to present something that I've always wanted to add to SkyAkes, a suggestions feature. The biggest problem I've found in managing and writing this blog is that writer's block can be pretty uncooperative when it's 3:00 AM on a school day. In order to remedy this and add a feature to allow you, the readers, to become more interactive with this blog, I've decided to add a "article request-ation" form at a cool site called "Papyrs".

Here are some of the writer's blocks I talk about. Dang them and their weight!

Pretty much, the idea is that you, the reader, can ask us to cover any topic your little heart desires, and we'll consider writing about it. (If you want an article musing the ideas of string theory and Q-balls, we may reconsider) Along with that, this will allow us to concentrate on the topics that you guys really care about, and less on things like "fun facts about your toes" that I sometimes resort to.

The horror!

In order to satisfy your irrational suspicion that we're simply trying to steal your one million dollar ideas, feel free to leave your name in one of the provided boxes, and we'll gladly credit you for the idea. However, you can remain anonymous if you wish.

Without further ado, here's the article request-ation link. 

Baaahh... We're Back!

Why hello there, loyal reader. While it may have appeared that we've died in the past three months, I can assure you that we didn't. Along with our return from our hiatus, we bring great news. The first great news is something you've probably noticed the instant you walked right in here, the layout is completely different. No longer will your eyes be distracted by my amateur photography, instead, you'll be faced with fantastic monotone white. What an improvement!

As we've always suggested, feel free to take a second to reflect the values of life as you stare into our apathetic white background.

Secondly, during our endeavors, we've picked up another fresh, aspiring mind to join the Skyakes' family. Without further ado, allow me to introduce to you, "Dr.Freeman", our new go-two guy for electronic-related news and information. But allow me to warn you, as an ambitious young man as himself, he is fully prepared to write controversial articles and defend them, and as long as they don't include the words "I'm going to murder the president", I'll simply moderate and review his articles before publishing. But at the end of the day, with a new, three-man-team, you can expect more articles being thrown at your face daily.

Here's his mugshot. He's a little camera-shy in-person.

In other news, along with a new writer, we've gotten our old writer, Eddard, back on the scene. In addition, we've removed the adbox on the side of the website to give you a better user experience.  Lastly, we've thrown out the old-fashion, hard-to-use comments system, with an easy-to-use comments system based on Facebook. As long as you're logged into your account on your browser, you can comment away without any delay. (Ignore the rhyme that coincidentally occurred)

What this basically means for you overall, is that you can expect a slight 16.5% increase in joy and contentment in your life as a result of our [technical] relaunch. No need to thank us, it's a part of our job.

But if you insist.

Hurricane Irene & News Regarding Skyakes

For New Yorkers, the hot topic of the day is Hurricane Irene. Since New York isn't prone to hurricanes and natural disasters, any natural disaster instantly becomes headline news. Since this hurricane is the hot topic, I would be a fool to not talk about it!

What is Hurricane Irene though? I wake up this morning and according to my weather gadget on my desktop, we can expect "small transparent-blue dots" align together into mysterious formations on Sunday.

Darn you mysterious shapes!

If you check on Weather.com, you'll find "Heavy Rain/Wind" on Sunday. Well, doesn't sound too bad to me. I guess I'll close the windows, and snuggle up with some warm milk right?

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Skyakes Revamp!

What's this new sensual template doing here? Well it might have something to do with our extreme-revamp. Why is it extreme? Not because it's a massively life-altering, but because its hardcore like six rocks tied onto the end of a rope made of goat skin.

Out with the old, in with the new!

Well, other then the new-fresh look, what else is new you might ask?

• Two new picture-hacks. (I'll show you these in the next few post!)
• A new "associate"! That's right, Skyakes isn't just becoming another slowly dying blog on the verge of collapse, now it's a collaboration of two people running a dying blog on the verge of collapse. Just kidding about the collapse and dying part though.
• The fresh-meat or more politely, the new gentlemen that will be joining us will hopefully bring some fresh air and insight into the room.
• His name is Eddard. Feel free to parade him with balloons and fast cars.

Any ways, with our new staff, we should be able to pump out more quality content, and instead of enjoying one article with a cuppa tea, you can now enjoy two teas. -insert questionable music-

Expect some new things* coming your way as we adjust towards this change for the better!

*New things may include one or more of the following: increased content, improved quality of content, cancer, diabetes, skin blemishes, multiple cyst, hot air balloons and/or pink colored ovals.