Review: Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 5000
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
What do you do when your paycheck finally deposits into your account? Shopping of course!!
So I went to Bukit Bintang with a friend, bought tickets for Number 23 (pretty interesting movie), had a large Extreme Mocha (coffee blended with chocolate ice-cream, delicious!) at San Fransisco Coffee and headed to Low Yat Plaza.
I wanted to get a wireless mouse. All those damn cables plugged to my laptop is pretty irritating. The Logitech notebook mouses were sexy, but expensive. Worst of all, they didn’t have stock for the particular model I wanted. Then I thought, hey, since I’ll be using it at my table 99% of the time, I might as well get a desktop one, which is larger and more comfortable!
So after browsing a while, I was happy with the Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 5000, and paid for it..
Then I started opening the package, and to my horror… Read the rest of this entry »
Jnls.Net Redesign, Worthy of “v4″?
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
After some touch-ups, I’m kinda happy with the look and feel of my blog’s theme. Segoe UI didn’t really go with the “logo”, so I changed it to Cambria, the new serif font from Microsoft. The cursive style definitely reduces the over-simplicity of a sans-serif font. In addition, some stripes to the header image completes the header. I also realized that fluid layouts just don’t go well with blogs, unless I have 3 columns - which I don’t.
While I was touching up the theme this morning, I was kinda disappointed. I kinda had to struggle just to create a 2 column layout. Sigh, my CSS skills are so rusty now.. I’m so out of touch with XHTML/CSS..
As I said, this redesign is more of a “sick of red, let’s try something different for a change” kinda theme. It feature any bright idea that I’m proud off.
Here’s how a floating quote looks like
Oh, I did figure out something to minimize the over-simplicity of the design: little red “quotes” that float to the right. They’re in red, so they kinda attract some attention and add some color. Damn, speaking of colors, I’m so bad at picking colors. All my themes are dead boring: very limited color palette. Hm, wonder what happens if I throw in some purple or pink….
