I Hate My Wordpress Theme
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
I’m starting to hate my wordpress theme more and more.. the color’s are like shit! There just ain’t enough contrast! I have one mod of this theme in the working stages, but I took a look at it earlier on, and I didn’t like it that much either - it looked to cramped for my liking..
To make things worse, there’s this 30 Great Website Designs post. Here are some of my favourites:
Arts of The Month
Tags: web_design
Vista TNT
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
I recently stumbled on an interesting article over at techrepublic about some cool tips and trick for Windows Vista.
Keyboard Shortcut to Quick Launch Toolbar Shortcuts
This is kinda weird - a keyboard shortcut to a shortcut. Simply press the Window Key and say, number 1 to access the first shortcut you have at the Quick Launch toolbar. By default, that should be the show desktop shortcut.
More Windows Key Combinations
Win key + T: Cycles through programs using the Live Preview feature.
Win key + Spacebar: Brings Windows Sidebar to the front.
Cool Zooming Effects
You’re probably pretty familiar with the Views menu in Windows Explorer (aka “My Computer”). What you can do is scroll your mouse wheel. That’ll smoothly resize the icons up to extra large icons. There’s another shortcut to it though: try pressing the Ctrl key and spin your mouse wheel!
The best place to try this Ctrl + mouse scroll trick is on the desktop!
The “Computer” icon doesn’t look that nice at full blown size. The “Recycle Bin” icon looks stunning though don’t you think?
Stephy and Choupy?
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Haha, Eu Hua have posted about me attending my lecturer’s wedding dinner last Saturday. Stephen Tang and Anjoe Chou met each other 7 years ago when they were studying Computer Science at TARC, according to a video Stephen compiled about their “love story”. Like Eu Hua said, it isn’t the kind of fairy-tale love story you’d see in movies, but sill touching nonetheless.
Ah, but Eu Hua didn’t tell you why we call Stephen’s bride “Choupy”. Well, her full name’s Anjoe Chou Pui Yee. So “Choupy” comes from “Chou” and her initials “P Y”. Hm, wonder if he still reads my blog..
Tags: life
Server Move and Wordpress Upgrade
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Kinda had nothing to do today, so decided to move my hosting account from a US server to a local server. My webhost (easynet-interactive) has several servers, some in US and some at local data centers. I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but my blog sure seems to load faster!
Also upgraded Wordpress to version 2.1.2 without any incidents. The most useful feature I think is the auto-save of posts. No more worries of browser crash, accidentally closing the tab etc..
Everytime I write a new post, I choose a tag for my post. It is then when I’m “reminded” to clear up my tag structure.. it’s so damn messy, so many tags with just 1 or 2 posts.. sigh.. I’ll leave it for some other day :p
Busy and Lazy
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Yeah, me so lazy. Even yang berhormat have blogged ’bout Vista Week, but I havnt :p Damn.. I just get so lazy sometimes.. it’s been AGES since I’ve last update this blog.. nearly a month ago, when I was back in Ipoh.. that’s probably coz I left my camera in Ipoh, so no photos to post..
Anyway, I don’t wanna talk about Vista Week anymore, it’s such a lenghty event that just blogging about sounds tiring.. I will blog about Code Camp though, as I was the organizing chairperson :p
Code Camp was basically a 2 day Microsoft technology workshop. We at first wanted it to be an overnight camp, but things just didn’t work out. Maybe next year.. maybe next year.. Not that many people attended, only about 40 (we expected 70). Nevertheless, if 70 turned up, we’d have a hell of a time getting the hands-on-labs to work..
The thing I loved most about Code Camp? The t-shirt lah!!
Anyway, the Code Camp committee have done a great job! I was lucky coz I presented WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), which wasn’t that hard. Poor Chu Hang had to wrangle Office 2007 development, which is bloody complicated!
I’ve yet to get the photos for our Vista/Office 2007 launch event, so stay tuned!
