Archive for July, 2007
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
I am feeling a little bit slow today, because my notebook is slow. LOL. I think this relates directly to the fact that everyday at work I am using a new Lenovo T60 notebook which is much faster than my 2 years old personal notebook. I used to dual-boot the notebook with Debian where the [...]
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Tags: Linux, Photography, Software
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
How cool is this! WordPress Shop is now selling WordPress red t-shirt worldwide. It’s gonna cost about RM100.00 including shipping for Malaysians. For the rest of the world, the t-shirt costs £9.50 and delivery is £4.50 but if you share with friends the delivery cost would be (£4.00 x Quantity) + X where X is [...]
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
So as I mentioned in my previous post, last weekend I went to Pangkor Island for the company’s team building. Here’s the picture taken once we arrived at the hotel private jetty:
This is not exactly a vacation and we didn’t have much chances to go to other tourist spots.
However it was a great event, and [...]
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Tags: Hotel
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
So you want to surf the Internet faster? Ever heard of OpenDNS? I have been using OpenDNS for a week now to test its performance. So far it has not let me down, and the name resolving rate is satisfactory.
What is DNS?
DNS stands for Domain Name System. As you might already seen before, the Internet [...]
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
PHP 4 will finally reached its end of life on December 31, 2007. However critical security fixes will be made available until August 8, 2008.
This is a good time to revise your codes, to see whether they will run without any glitches in PHP 5. That first, then when doing any code upgrades or improvements [...]
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Tags: PHP
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Hey hey hey, PortableApps.com have released a bunch of brand new applications such as winMd5Sum Portable 1.0.1.55, On-Screen Keyboard Portable 1.0, Notepad++ Portable 4.1.2, Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable 3.3, and some portable games for your pleasure.
Go ahead to http://portableapps.com/apps for your dose of portable apps.
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
So the next weekend I will be flying to San Francisco to attend WordCamp 2007 on 21-22 July. This event is a 2-day conference for WordPress users and developers. The first day will focus on how to be a better blogger, the second on the development and future of WordPress.
Yeah right! Did you believe me? [...]
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Yes, it’s soccer or as we in Malaysia locally call it, football. The national team lost 5-1 to China on Tuesday night match, and it is not a good news. However I am not a football fan and this blog is not a sports blog. I just need to vent out my frustration and disappointment [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Do you have any backups of your data? Are you willing to lose precious data such as your digital photos, accounts, letters, spreadsheets, and the list goes on and on. Today, you hardly keep so many paper documents as everything is kept digitized for easy handling. Who are we kidding, it is convenient to travel [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Have you checked in to your AdSense account lately? Try and see the Referral setup page and see whether you have been upgraded to Referrals 2.0. I was surprised by this notification when I logged on to the AdSense account of one of my clients. This is what I saw:
Some of us are lucky enough [...]
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Tags: Adsense, Google
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Warning: might contain spoilers.
There are so many movies being released and I can’t get to them all. I watched Die Hard 4.0 last Saturday after 5 calls to the GSC Movie Reservation lines.
Die Hard 4.0 is one of the best installment from the Die Hard movie series. If you have watched the previous 3 like [...]
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Tags: Movie
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Warning: Might contain spoilers.
I skipped my weekly swimming exercise yesterday and went out to Summit Parade to watch Transformers. We thought that the cinemas will not be full as it is a week day but we were wrong and ended up taking the first line of seat in the THX hall. Luckily in the THX [...]
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Tags: Movie
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
It’s that time of the year again. The last Friday of July is the System Administrator Appreciation Day. You have plenty of time to plan them a party, or buy them gifts before the day arrives. But please, no mugs!
You can see some suggestions for gifts here.
Go ahead, consider it. You can seriously make them [...]
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