Wordpress 2.7

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Let’s welcome WordPress 2.7 Coltrane!

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After nearly 1 hour getting tangled with Wordpress 2.7, I finally got it running perfectly :)

Some encounters that might be helpful to those considering upgrading from Wordpress 2.1– :
- Wordpress 2.2 introduced 2 new variables in wp-config.php to support database charset. If you see strange characters on your wordpress after upgrading, google for it.
- Wordpress 2.7 comes with integrated AJAX search, integrated remote updating of plugins. It’s very easy to use; just remember that you have to provide your ftp path, e.g.

ftp.ngxtri.com:21
username: jacky
password: hzrdguess

And make sure the file plugins-update.php attribute is set to executable (I don’t know why Wordpress 2.7 doesn’t set this as default).

- Another pain in the ash is Gallery2. The Gallery2 team told me to upgrade its plugin called “ImageBlock”, otherwise the ’size’ attribute won’t work and visitors will have to use magnifier to view my wordpress pictures. So I went to Gallery2 admin page to update it, only to find out that the forking plugin is actually locked.

Besides that, everything went smoothly. So stop hesitating and do as Ford does. Ford uses Wordpress, unlike Daimler Chrysler..

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Acronyms in Singapore

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In Singapore , the majority of us live in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB),
And most people have already got used to Paying and Paying (PAP).
Not only do you have to pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB).
If that’s not enough, somebody still Purposely Wants to Dig (PWD) and get more from you.

So what more can you do when you are in the Money Only Environment (MOE)?
With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to Pay the Sum Ahead (PSA) ;
Which will leave some people Permanently Owing Some Banks (POSB) ;
And forced to live on the Loan Techniques Always (LTA) system.

When you fall sick and happen to be admitted to a Money Operating Hospital (MOH),
You might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF) fund.
If you are out of luck, you may meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH) to treat you;
And you will be Sure to Give up Hope (SGH).

To help ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressway! (COE).
If that doesn’t help, they can always Eternally Raise Prices (ERP) on the road.
If you don’t own a car, you can always make a Mad Rush to the Train (MRT), OR get squashed in a bus Side By Side (SBS).

Lastly, under all these pressures, there are not many places we can relax, not even the good old place we used to go because it has become So Expensive and Nothing To See Actually (SENTOSA)!!!

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Vi-đê-ô gêm toàn tập

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Dưới đây là bảng tổng kết thi đua về thành tích chơi game của ngxtri trong thời gian 26 năm vừa qua:

1) 8 tuổi đến 12 tuổi (lớp 3 đến lớp 7):

Năm 1990, máy vi đê ô game Famicom xuất hiện ở Quy Nhơn gây xôn xao cư dân mạng. Giá cho thuê là 200 đồng/15 phút. Với 15 phút thì chỉ đủ chơi 2 màn Contra, còn với 500 đồng thì đã có thể ăn một tô bún giò :P

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Portable Music Player - one of the worst inventions in 21st century

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In 1867, Alfred Nobel patented the world’s first dynamite. It was great, until the World War I made full use of it in 1914.
In 1925, Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded petrol and CFC’s. The world was excited with the mass production of air-con, until in 1970 James Lovelock looked up the sky and noticed the Ozone hole

In 2001, Apple released the first iPod. This is their concept (picture taken from wired.com)

ipod

Steve Jobs announced it as a product with a 5 GB hard drive that “puts 1,000 songs in your pocket”. Meaning, if you purchase each song from iTunes for 1$ , Steve Jobs will “pull 1,000$ out of your pocket”.

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Piano

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My own piano!

It’s been in my wishlist since I was 7 years old. During my 2nd grade, my father took me to a church where a nun taught me piano. At first it was boring and repetitive playing with the 7 notes. But after I finished “Claire de la lune” things got a bit more interesting. I still recall how nice it was playing piano in a quiet sanctum..

And here it is:

piano

Yamaha PX-85 digital piano, a very compact, fine-tuned digital piano designed for the best look and audibility. I’ve laid my hands on some Casio within same price range, but later decided to get this baby.

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Hán chữ, Việt tiếng và Hoa ngữ - p1

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Tự cổ chí kim (từ xưa đến nay), tiếng Hoa được đồn đại là rất khó học, mỗi ngày một người trung bình (cao 1m65 nặng 70kg) chỉ học được 5-10 chữ tiếng Hoa là giỏi; sau 1 năm thì sẽ biết được 3000 từ, đủ để hỏi đường và gọi món ăn.

Riêng người Việt Nam chúng ta, nhờ có lợi thế là biết nhiều chữ Hán, cho nên một ngày vừa học vừa chơi cũng có thể nhớ được 30 chữ Hoa dạng phiên âm.

Tam Thiên Tự (tránh nhầm với Tam Tự Kinh), là một cuốn sách (hay bài đồng dao??) giúp người Việt học tiếng Hán dễ dàng:

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Using Opera - being the 0.6 percent of the world

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    update: Opera 9.62 was officially released!

Opera 9.5 - beautifully engineered

About Firefox 3.0: It reminds me of Yahoo Messenger 9.0! Look at all ‘enhancements’ made from YM 8.1 to YM 9.0. None of them is big enough to make version jump. For Firefox3, the situation is even worse when 90% of my existing extension are no longer compatible!!
Opera was humble when making a move from 9.28 to 9.50. Firefox was boasting. Yahoo was lying.

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Three Kingdoms - Resurrection of the Dragon

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Vân Tiên tả đột hữu xung
Khác nào Triệu Tử mở vòng Đương Dương
Lâu la bốn phía vỡ tan
Đều quăng gươm giáo tìm đàng chạy ngay..
(Lục Vân Tiên - Nguyễn Đình Chiểu)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0882978/

When the long-waited movie was released in Singapore yesterday, 03 April 2008, FAPAC (Ấp Bắc) team eagerly went to Cathay Cinepleisure Orchard to “deflower” it :8 . (Disclaimer: the word “deflower” was coined by Trần Minh and excitedly exploited by Nguyễn Quốc Sử, not me)

This review may contain spoilers. Viewer discretion is advised..

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Trịnh Công Sơn

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Sẽ là rất thừa nếu kể thêm về nhạc sĩ Trịnh Công Sơn
Nhân dịp 7 năm ngày mất cố nhạc sĩ Trịnh Công Sơn, nv ngồi nghe lại 2 bài:

Download Link Khánh Ly - Chiều một mình qua phố

“Ngày nào mình còn có nhau, xin cho dài lâu.
Ngày nào đời thôi có nhau, xin người biết đau..”

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The Holiday

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Được trang Starpulse đánh giá là 1 trong 10 bộ phim lãng mạn hay nhất.

Với dàn diễn viên hùng hậu: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet (chị này nhìn già và mập hơn hồi đóng Titanic nhiều), Jude Law (người London chính gốc, được biết nhiều với phim Alfie trong vai một chàng lãng tử đa tình), Jack Black (anh chàng lập dị trong phim Shool of Rock, Channel 101 và King Kong); The Holiday khiến người ta tin tưởng là một phim đáng xem. Ngoài ra còn có Rufus Sewell, anh chàng chuyên đóng vai phản diện và những phim thời trung cổ như Helen Of Troy, Tristan & Isolde. Trong phim này anh chàng bị mắng một trận xối xả, rất xứng đáng :D

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