No, it’s not that I’ve been too lazy to blog. Problems with the hosting, server troubles, got locked out of my admin account, etc etc. It’s been a month of wasted hours and feeling helpless. Couldn’t do anything, couldn’t fix it myself, couldn’t… wait anymore.
So I started anew, installed WP again, upgraded to a [...]
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And we’re baaaaack!
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as some people reported difficulties getting the previous feed to display full posts and images properly. Please let me know if this doesn’t work.
Naughty c00kies
While troubleshooting my recent GChat connectivity woes, I was examining and scrutinising every little corner of my FireFox browser. Gradually I came to notice that while surfing my blog pages, mysterious calls to ‘dg.specificclick.net’ were being made.
First reaction was: spyware!!
I Googled it, and traced it back to… Sitemeter, a popular statistics tracking service that I [...]
Googbility
I’m still using a N73 but my Palm has long since died. Too lazy to acquire a proper PDA and to conduct the prior appropriate research that accompanies one such purchase, I merely stuck to my dying Nokia and have been loading it with one feature after another. With it, I can open and edit [...]
Spices and condiments
As the trend goes, I usually select an assortment of plugins to accompany the adoption of a new theme. This round’s pickings are:
Category Icons – See those little icons by the categories? And at the top of every post? It’s easy to install and configure. They’re cute, too.
Flexible Upload – Integrates with the default [...]
Back to white
No more blotchy notebooks and vivid colours for me. I felt like I’d lost myself in that notebook theme… it was too messy, too fancy. I like things clean, simple, white. Minimalistic stuff. So I found this theme which hovers somewhere in between all the previous white-based themes I had… and there. I’m back. My [...]
New theme
I’m a little uncertain about this one, although it’s a refreshing change (and I keep seeing blogs with my old theme popping up everywhere). The background certainly needs some spicing up.
Upgrading works
Among all the websites I manage, my own blog’s the most outdated. Just never really did see a need to upgrade it to the latest WP version but since I’m presently in a webmonkeying mode, might as well.
So hang tight. Things may just go poof! any moment now.
Tech pickings
WhatTheFont (website) – Provides a free font recognition service… surely one of the most nifty font sites around! Upload an image with a line of text, and let the site tell (show) you which fonts are the closest match.
Serif PagePlus (software) – So far, one of the best desktop publishing softwares I’ve tried. PagePlus [...]
Spyware/bots on MSN
Three weeks ago, I received a few suspicious messages from one of my friends in Sydney. They go:
“hey whats up? check this out !!!
http://cool.smy9.info
brb…”
And then I started getting these from a number of my Aussie friends. Looks like a bot would send a message from their account just before they went offline, and since I [...]
