WordPress never ceases to fascinate me. With each version upgrade, it gets so much better, it makes blogging so fun all over again. Sure, once in a while, I’m disagreeable with a couple of changes. But the improvements often outweigh the little setbacks that I’ve no qualms about updating my WordPress installation. Every time a new version is announced, I just upgrade without thinking. The latest version 3.3 has made a bunch of usability improvements. The most important one, to…
Google’s launch of + (Google Plus) is just a little over two weeks ago. They already have some 10 million users signed up. With all the buzz and excitement surrounding it, it looks set to push much farther ahead than Google’s other social projects managed to achieved. It is the first real competition to Facebook. Google still has a long way to go, but their latest project is certainly on the right path to make sure Internet users spend more…
I’ve been transferring my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap as the time came up for their renewals in the last couple of months. I have another domain that is coming up for renewal now. Just coincidentally, Namecheap is currently running a promotion on Facebook, offering a discount coupon for .com/.net/.org domain registrations at the price of just US$1.99. Sounds attractive?
I’ve moved this website. You probably know where to, if you’ve been following my recent posts. After one week pilot testing Bluehost and GreenGeeks, I decided to go with Bluehost. If you’re reading this post, it means you’re already seeing the relocated website. As much as I want to support a pro-green web hosting company, after much careful consideration, I concluded that Bluehost offered a better package for my needs.
Yup, if you’ve not voted, tomorrow’s the last day to vote for your favourite N.E.mation clip. Remember there are 4 ways you can vote, and each of those 4 ways count separately: at the www.nemation.sg website (visit with a PC or Mac), the mobile website (visit the same URL with a mobile phone), at the Facebook page www.facebook.com/nemation, and by sending SMS. Each person can only vote once per method, and each time you vote you have to pick 3 clips….
I’m not the patriotic kind that will want to write about or promote a “government project”. But hop over to N.E.mation 5, because this one deserves some attention. It’s a stop-motion animation competition on the theme of Total Defense (or perhaps National Education… that’s where the N.E. comes from in the competition name). Students from 600 school teams, with no prior experience in animation, came together to learn and pitch their ideas. Ten teams were eventually selected to work on…
Last Christmas (the one in 2009), we were in Hawaii. I was just doing some “housekeeping” on my notebook and started to look through some of the photos, particularly those of our family holiday in Hawaii. Oh, and the wonderful cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory. Fast forward… it’s now the end of 2010. I also just realized that I haven’t been blogging much, especially the last two months. I wanted to write more about our holiday in Japan, and then…
I’m talking about the “good” type of awards. The “Hall of Fame CMS” award, for example, which went to WordPress in the 2010 Open Source Awards. At least, Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, doesn’t seem to think so. I sort of agree. WordPress isn’t quite a CMS as I’d expect a CMS to be, and it going on winning CMS awards will lead to people actually thinking that WordPress is indeed a CMS. Then they’ll start comparing CMS features,…
I was somewhat surprised to learn that WordPress won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in Packt Publishing’s 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. It’s because I’ve never thought of WordPress as a CMS. It is a blog software, and certainly a very good one at that. It’s hardly what I would call a CMS. So when news of the award broke, I thought I was reading something wrongly, or that there was a catch somewhere that I misunderstood. But…
I’ve been earning a small little sum of pocket money through Google Adsense on my blog. It’s a relatively steady flow, although also relatively small. The amount of work I put into my blog is also relatively little, of course, compared to my full time day job. I was just thinking about it, it I make blogging my full time job, would I earn enough from Google Adsense to pay me comparably to what I earn now from my day…
