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2000 Bloggers

Posted by narrowband - 01/02/07 at 09:02:40 pm

Heard about the 2000 Bloggers community on MyBlogLog? Tino Buntic‘s project aims to gather 2000 photos and links from all over the world. It’s also something like a showcase of diversity in the blogosphere. And…

I made it in too! Can you imagine all the photos are hosted on Photobucket? The bandwidth limit had to be increased in order to support the traffic! I don’t know how Tino adds everyone – it seems like it’s done manually. He even alt-ed me as ‘David’. Imagine doing the same for everyone else. In the end, he’ll have done it 2000 times.

Widening Narrowband.org

Posted by narrowband - 22/01/07 at 12:01:37 am

I should’ve known. The two-column layout wouldn’t stay for long. Even my old blogs ran on three-columns. And because I love this theme, I decided to modify it. Obviously it’s much easier to modify an existing theme compared to creating a new one from scratch.
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How to Create a CSS Photo Gallery

Posted by narrowband - 19/01/07 at 12:01:04 pm

This is based on the article on Dynamic Drive. I applied the technique in one of my posts early this month. That single post contained 32 images. To display all of them within a post would take up a lot of space, so the CSS Photo Gallery is the perfect solution.
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Photo Gallery Created

Posted by narrowband - 04/01/07 at 12:01:28 pm

I created a new section called ‘Photo Gallery‘. It’s simply a place where I share ‘some’ photos (my first one has about 400 photos, hehe). Currently there’s only one album – You’ll need to have Macromedia Flash installed to view the photos. There were at least 1,000 photos taken during that holiday trip, so I filtered away more than half of them. It was easy – as I only retained (mostly) scenery shots.

I don’t want to have my friends coming up to me and say “Dave! Why you put that pic?? That angle very bad lar!”. It always happens :p. I’ve been careful this time (at least I tried to filter properly, k!). All photos in the album were taken using my friends’ cameras – Mine was dunked into saltwater, remember? I replaced the camera only several months later (repair costs too high!).

Didn’t have the time to write a caption for every single photo. I’ll try to write captions in future additions, though.

The Year That Was 2006

Posted by narrowband - 31/12/06 at 06:12:52 pm

We kicked-start the year with our new baby – it has four wheels and was codenamed ‘flying Myvi’. We took delivery of the car in the first week of January, after having waited for *drumrolls, please…* … more than seven months (a record). It was also the year I celebrated my 2nd singlehood anniversary (going on 3rd pretty soon). I can’t believe it’s been so long, as everything still appears fresh in my mind. It seems like only yesterday we went out for our first date.

Then I was introduced to Toastmasters by some friends. Before long, I signed up to be a member and have since spoken 7 times, not including impromptu speeches (some of which were terrible!). Participated in a contest once. Made a complete fool out of myself on stage. I wish I didn’t remember this. I vowed to go on a hiatus and concentrate instead on my university projects. Things are looking much better now though, and I hope to finish my 10th speech by February next year.

My three-week semester break was a memorable one. The Spirit of KL competition saw hundreds of teams made up of mostly foundation, first and second year students. We were among the older ones there (final year, at that!). Made many new friends and had lots of fun. And the fact that we took home the grand prize of RM10K plus handphones and vouchers simply made it all the sweeter.
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Look Ma, No Imports!

Posted by narrowband - 26/12/06 at 10:12:54 pm

Ok. For some reason the import-export business does not like me. Or my blog. Whatever. I’m just gonna skip that part and start afresh. More on that later. Meanwhile please accept my apologies for having removed previous comments. (Aww it’s not like I had posted dozens of entries). There were 4 comments left on the latest (now irrelevent, hence removed) entry – last I checked. Then as I was working on my site, I put up a spartan home-made “404 – Page not found” page. I wonder how many of you caught a glimpse of that.

Right now I’m having this phobia of installing plugins. Yes, believe me. Plugins are not at all fun when they screw things up. Or maybe it’s just me who needs all that tech knowledge. You see, yours truly isn’t all that techified, actually. Bugger now I miss blogging on a free hosting. At least I didn’t need to care much whatever happened behind-the-scenes. I heard about wordpress being idiot-proof and powerful and all that. Well true enough, when I was on wordpress.com (the free wordpress hosting everybody loves), it exhibited every ounce of those qualities.

Then came the itch. A paid hosting. Or ‘upping a notch’, as some would call it. After much deliberation, I did some survey and began booking my favorite domain. I’d have used *.com if it hadn’t been taken. *.net too. And I also began thinking about the things I would do with my site. No I shan’t disclose any details about that. Meanwhile it’s just a blog – something I’ve been doing since October 2004. After a good two years of blogging, I’ve finally come to the land where all bloggers would love to come – if it weren’t for the fee that’s tagged with it. I paid *coughs coughs* for a 2-year hosting – Enough to set up an online business and take on Google.

Right. I’m just kidding. I can’t do that anyway. At least not until I figure out how to properly import posts from a wordpress blog, to another wordpress blog, damn it. (Strange enough the guys at wordpress.org didn’t see this coming). The Technosailor plugin worked like a charm. But somehow the presence of my older (imported) posts was screwing up my comment system. Ok enough about me and my wordpress. I feel so freakin’ n00b-ish talking about these things.

And oh, if you’re wondering, my old, beloved wordpress blog is here. At least there is still a reason for me to go back again. I mean my old entries are there, in case I wanna reminisce, you know ;). You could always drop by too, *if* you’d like. Here’s a toast to my new site. *Yaaam-seng..*. And one more for the first post on narrowband.org. Ever. Yeah.

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