I wonder if Google has become more generous with their PageRank scoring? I just noticed my homepage cum blog site upgraded to PageRank 5, with at least one other internal page even scoring PageRank 6. Is this little site becoming a small-time hit? What is even more interesting is that the website of my work organization scores PageRank 9! (They are surely getting somewhere with their goal to become “world class”!)
Tag Archives: blogging
State Of The Blog – 20 Months On
You have State of the Union Address, State of the University Address, and I will have my very own State of my Blog essay. This blog site is now coming to about 20 months old. It has grown tremendously over the months. While in January 2008 we served 10343 page views to 2502 visitors a month, for the month of November 2008 we are now serving 36362 page views to 9735 visitors. That’s over triple the traffic in less than…
Moving to WordPress 2.7
Running on WordPress 2.7-beta3 WordPress 2.7 is coming soon. I’ve been trying out the beta releases on my test site. Although much of the improvements are usability enhancements (things that I don’t generally find to be “highly important”), there are two particular things that I find really useful: paginated comments and threaded commenting. I couldn’t wait anymore, not even for the release candidate, so ZitSeng.com has been upgraded to the current latest available beta, WordPress 2.7 beta 3. You can…
Preparing Simplicity for WordPress 2.7
WordPress version 2.7 beta 2 was released yesterday, with the final version 2.7 expected end of this month. There are significant new features, some of which require some updates to themes to support the new functionality. I’ve started to update my WordPress theme Simplicity to support the new version 2.7 features. I’d guess Simplicity is probably one of the earliest to update support for 2.7.
New Garo Japanese Restaurant
We went to the newly renovated New Garo Japanese Restaurant for dinner last night. They’ve done up some simple renovations to brighten up the place and make the place feel less congested. It seems like there is less seating now, although that may be because the place just feels more spacious. Still the same staff, and the food is still as good as ever.
Learning To Blog
One of the cute little things that Vanessa tries to do is to type on my notebook. Here’s one of the snapshot that my Nokia N95 8GB phone managed to capture. Looking like a real professional eh? Both parents are quite IT savvy, so the baby must have quite naturally picked up computer skills.
Why Do Ugly Things Work Better
I’ve been evaluating a couple of software lately. I’m looking for a nice platform to do tons of documentation. I talk about “nice”, because things need to be beautiful for people to want to use. But at the same time, they have to work. Actually, having to work is even more important. It is such a dilemma sometimes when you have to choose between what’s beautiful and what works.
My Cheque from Google Adsense
Yeah, it’s my turn to show off my Google Adsense cheque. It’s a small little sum of money. It will be cool if it can grow to a tidy monthly income, but for now, it will suffice as some occasional pocket money to make myself feel good. It’s cool, because the extra income is a side effect of what I want to do anyway. It has taken quite a few months to accumulate enough earnings to cash out, but hopefully…
WordPress Release Testing
WordPress is a great blogging software. But its frequent releases that break backward compatibility is upsetting some users. Is the WordPress team to blame for poor release testing? Someone has come out to defend the WordPerss team, but I kind of disagree with the arguments. Some of the blame has to fall on the WordPress team.
Simplicity Theme For WordPress
I’ve just released Simplicity, a clean, simple and elegant WordPress theme. Simplicity is designed to be three-column layout, fluid width, and XHTML/CSS compliant. I created Simplicity because I couldn’t find any themes that I was truly satisfied with. There were a few “critical” features that I really wanted very much, but it seems not many people really cared about those same things.