Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Blogging No-no and Yes-yes

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

I’ll agree with 5xMoM’s 10 blogging no-no …

1) No to black background because it is overused …
2) No to lengthy post …
3) No to digress too much …
4) No to leaving the blog not updated for several days or even weeks …
5) No to attention seeking title every day …
6) No to sticking to […]

Bloglines is Down Today!

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

Since I discovered Bloglines on 19 Mar 2005, my public bloglines subscription has grown to 50+ feeds. It was certainly to my horror I found I couldn’t login into my Bloglines account today and my public bloglines sub giving error “You have entered an incorrect user name”.

Slightly less disconcerting is the error message “There is […]

How to Blog Safely Unanonymously?

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

Is what I thought of when reading the EFF article (that Jon Choo post led me to) on How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else) published on 6 April 2005 …
Blogs are like personal telephone calls crossed with newspapers. They’re the perfect tool for sharing your favorite chocolate mousse recipe with friends–or for […]

Another Weekend, Woo!

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

A weekend blogger is certainly what I’m becoming. Especially with my new assignment and my workplace change to an 8-to-5 five-day week. Woo, looks like I’m with good companies …

WeekendBlogger - One way to find a random one of us.
Office work kills the blogger - Alwin Hawkins, 8 April 2005. “Okay, not killed. Just made […]

Wordpress SEO Scandals

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

I just found out about this “Wordpress SEO Scandal” and Matt’s responses from blewtooth’s visa blog …
Finally Matt (the creator of Wordpress) had a chance to make a response to the recent WordPress SEO scandal.
… that seems to me about “ads” and “google spamming”, not that it changed my view of how useful free WordPress […]

Favourite Icons

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Yep, this “favicon.ico” is one of the next thing I’ll do. In fact, I’m imagining a 16x16 icon of stylized yellow “S” on violet background. I’d have lo learn/find an editor that will create it next. The favourite icon will certainly look nice in bookmarks, address bar and in my Bloglines public subscription list.

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Malaysia Wikis

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Visa blog regarding “Project Wiki Public Directory”(Startwiki) that is intended to be “the most complete yellow pages or public directory in Malaysia” prompted me to look for existing wikis focussing on Malaysia content. What I found, are sorted below, roughly by creation date and/or total articles:

Wikipedia Malaysia - about 970 articles on Malaysia. Not exclusively […]

Bloglines

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

Lionel rave prompted me to have a look at Bloglines. It certainly looks interesting. Here’s my public subscriptions so far.

Bloglines - Lionel, 18 Mar 2005. “I’m surprised myself, that Bloglines changed my websurfing habits completely and immediately. A time and effort saver I can’t live without now.”
Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines - Napsterization, […]

Wikipedia hits half million article mark

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

The Inquirer, Thursday 17 March 2005, 15:29 says:
ONLINE ENCYCLOPAEDIA the Wiki is close to reaching half a million English articles online. […] According to its English page, here, there are currently 499,690 English articles on the resource.

Wikipedia Press Release 18 Mar 2005 says:
The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 500,000th article in the […]

One Click Backup for WP

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

InsaneOx blog just steered me to One click backup for WP plugin, that I’ve been meaning to search and install. Just done. Worked beautifully. Only got to figure out the .htpasswd stuffs next. ;-)