With the demise of the last remaining computer in my house from using Windows as the main OS, I am now a proud owner of two happy Ubuntu machines! Couldn’t be more happier! It started a bit scary at first, my main hard disk containing all my photos, suddenly couldn’t be mounted! It complained that […]
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I have just upgraded to Drupal 5.3!!!
Posted: 19th October 2007 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Silly meI was so taken away at just how absurdly simple everything went! The earlier problems that I had, all gone! I just followed the simple procedures in Drupal’s website and everything just fell into place! Let me recall what I just did: 1. Change default theme back to Garland (Drupal 5.x’s default theme) 2. Backup […]
YAY, Gutsy Gibbon is here!
Posted: 18th October 2007 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Current Affairs, Silly meWell, aren’t you excited? =D It’s like Spongebob meeting ol’ Gary for the first time, I feel all giddy and jumpy! Hehehe … I’m now downloading it. Hopefully my next post shall be about the new Ubuntu…. 😉 Ubuntu has never let its users down in terms of product deliverance. When they said 18th October, […]
Stupid Citibank – Bella Indulgence Offer
Posted: 18th October 2007 by Jacky Yong in Current Affairs, Silly meFrankly I am just so fed-up with Citibank’s sub-standard offers, considering Citibank’s size and its ability to do much better than that! I am talking about the lame offers by Citibank and its equally lame affiliate Bella. See link here, if it’s not gone yet.
I was fucking banned by Google Adsense!
Posted: 16th October 2007 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Silly meIt was not too long ago that I have earned my first 5 cents online using Google Adsense, and I had high praises for it. Naturally, I was very excited at the prospect of making an earning from my blog! However greed sets in, and despite the warning against clicking on the ads in your […]
Ever heard of the 5C’s criteria put on men? The famous C’s are: – (Credit) Card – Car – Condo – Cash – Country Club (membership) Well we do have some important criterias for them women too. I list them thus: 入得厨房 å‡ºå¾—åŽ…å ‚ There is however, one very important criteria that has been left out, […]
What’s that you’re saying? 5 cent is not a big deal? Well, it is for me, when all I ever did was to do the two things that I like to do; blogging and taking pictures! =P How did I do it? Why, Google Adsense of course! As easy as signing up at http://www.google.com/adsense You […]
Correcting white balance and exposure for a portion of an image
Posted: 4th October 2007 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Photography, Silly meMore often than not, I encounter pictures taken in very difficult lighting conditions that forced me to compromise. I recently took pictures of a bunch of models in a dark pub. Not an easy task I tell you. Flash was used extensively. And because my flash was not properly colour corrected, the colours of their […]
How to insert a YouTube movie into your Friendster blog
Posted: 2nd October 2007 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Silly meAs promised, here are the steps to embed a YouTube movie into your Friendster blog. Note that all other websites that points you to embed from inside YouTube is just fucking wrong! If you still don’t know, allow me to share with you the details of it. Let me first show you the wrong way […]
My debut website!
Posted: 29th September 2007 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Silly meTags: blog, debut, drupal, jackyyong
At long last, I splurged more than RM300 for a hosting and the rights to jackyyong.com! Please bear with me for a moment as I explore the complexity (or the lack of it) of webhosting, specifically using the Open Source scripts. In my site, I used Fantastico to deploy Drupal, hosted on Malaysia’s own Exabyte.com. […]