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I have not caught on the social networking hype of registering on sites like Twitter. I did not want to waste my time on things like Twitter because I am not a person who likes to check out what’s the latest news about other people except for my favourite band, Oasis.
A few weeks ago, I decided to test the status feature of Facebook. I was feeling happy and relieved that this unpleasant house mate of mine was going to move out soon in early August so I added a countdown message that went something like “3 more days to go”. Some of my friends started sending me messages asking me what I was counting down to!
When my house mate moved out, I changed my status message to something like “So long sucker, hope you don’t steal other people’s shampoo and take other people’s stuff in the future!”. A female friend of mine then asked me what caused me to get so upset.
Now I am beginning to understand why sites like Twitter are so popular. Some people just love these one-liners and have to know more. I think I should start using Twitter and some other similar sites like it even though I think they are dumb.
The problem is, I do not wish to login to all of my social networking sites to manually update all my status messages. I stumbled on a WordPress plugin called PingPress.fm that might do the trick. It works with Ping.fm, which is a free service that helps you to update all your social networks at one place. I will test it out and see how it goes.
Tagged As: Facebook, Message, Social network, Social network service, Social-media, Status message, Twitter
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Every year in Singapore, the government gets someone to release a communist-styled patriotic song. This year’s song is titled “The Singapore Song”.
The line that stuck out for me was “So in this homeland I vow to live and die”. I think they are trying to persuade more Singaporeans to live and die in Singapore, which is a huge problem for them because more and more people are leaving Singapore to live and die elsewhere.
If you compare our songs with the patriotic songs from China, you will see some similarities.
Love my Motherland (爱我中华) is a very popular song in China but the singing style is really old fashioned. Not many people sing like this today. Singapore patriotic songs are modern versions of these songs based on the same formula of brainwashing the population to love the government and country. I remember being forced to learn these songs in school and sing them on national day every year. I just cannot do this any more.
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I was surprised how quickly WordPress 2.6 was released. I still have an unresolved bug about the WordPress 2.5 wp_list_pages function. Unfortunately, they did not fix this bug or maybe they don’t plan to.
Back to WordPress 2.6. I am kind of confused by all the features WordPress has to offer. This video from WordPress will show you some of the new features in WordPress 2.6.
Upgrading from WordPress 2.5.1 to WordPress 2.6 was a snap for my blog. If you have not started with WordPress 2.6, now is a great time to start.
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Chee Soon Juan and Lee Kuan Yew finally met in court. Lee testified the following in court under oath:
“Your honour, the International Bar Association decided to honour Singapore and hold its annual conference in this city and you [Dr Chee] were given an opportunity to present your case, with your complaint that Singapore lack the rule of law. There were some 3000 lawyers there.
I think they left Singapore with a very different impression from what you have projected because we have a letter from the President of the International Bar Association to the organisers, namely the Law Society of Singapore, how successful the meeting was and how impressed they were by the standards they found to obtain in the judiciary.”
You can find proof of this at SDP’s web site by downloading the MP3 recordings of the court proceedings. Furthermore, IBA confirmed that they never wrote such a letter to Singapore praising our wonderful judiciary. Instead, the IBA came out with a report with 18 recommendations for us to improve our judiary system.
What’s worse, Miss Yeong Yoon Ying, Press Secretary to Minister Mentor, claimed that Chee Soon Juan called the Singapore leaders “murderers, robbers, child molesters” and “rapists.” Totally untrue!
I am glad I do not subscribe to the Straits Times newspaper because I believe it is an absolute waste of my money and paper to read the junk the government prints on it. Reading the Straits Times is an insult to my intelligence because I am supposed to believe the rubbish they write. Without the internet, I would have believed everything Lee Kuan Yew and his press secretary said, just like most Singaporeans.
Tagged As: Chee Soon Juan, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore, Straits Times
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Finally! Google has decided to reveal the monthly and yearly searches for every keyword phrase searched on Google.com. I hope there is an API for this so that all the keyword software makers can integrate this into their software as soon as possible.
According to Google AdWords Help Center:
The Approx Search Volume [Previous Month] column shows search volume statistics for the last calendar month. The Approx Avg Search Volume column shows average monthly search volume over a recent 12-month period.
Since Yahoo’s Overture keyword tool is officially dead, this tool is the next best thing at the moment. Google should have done this earlier.
Tagged As: AdWords, Google, Google Advertising Professional, Google search, Search Engines, Searching, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Search Marketing
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In the past week, I have experienced 2 incidents of extremely stupid and bad customer service from 2 eBay sellers.
The first seller to piss me off was bigrockmedia. You would expect an eBay seller with 98000 feedback points to behave smarter but they don’t because their checkout system does not work for people from Singapore.
I won a “Buy it now” auction for a music DVD and I wanted to pay immediately after the auction. However, the ChannelAdvisor.com checkout system does not have Singapore in its country list. I guess this is either the seller’s fault or ChannelAdvisor.com’s fault. I have tried to contact bigrockmedia 3 times but they have not replied to me at all.
The second seller to piss me off was trade4office. This seller is a Power Seller and they should know how to read their emails to check for their orders. In one of their listings for velcros, they said:
So I sent them an email saying:
Their reply was:
First of all, I have emailed them the number of yards of velcro I want. Secondly, they seem to have misread my email to them or something to give me an absurd reply like this with a typo. This proves that they just don’t give a damn about reading and replying to customer emails.
Lessons We Should All Learn From The 2 eBay Sellers Above
Common sense stuff if you ask me but lots of people just don’t care enough to apply this stuff.
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Last year, I posted a list of my favourite WordPress plugins. Today, I use a slightly different lineup of WordPress plugins because I have found better plugins to replace some of the older plugins I used and the latest WordPress has made certain plugins obsolete.
The 2007 WordPress Plugin List
The 2008 WordPress Plugin List
Tagged As: All in One SEO Pack, FeedBurner FeedSmith, ShareThis, wordpress, wordpress plugins, WP-reCAPTCHA, Zemanta
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Here are some of my social networking profile pages:
I am going to join Twitter and FriendFind soon just to see what the fuss is all about. In the mean time, let’s connect via these social networking sites.
Tagged As: Social-networking
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I adopted another cat early last month and named her Mini. She’s a really sweet, affectionate and intelligent cat. I bumped into her while I was walking to the lift early last month. She was begging for food at my neighbour’s door so I invited her to my place for free food, which she happily obliged.
Soon after this initial meeting, she began to visit my apartment and ask for food. I continued to feed her for about a week and decided to adopt her as she is such a cute and wonderful cat.
I got more than I thought. Who would have known that she was pregnant when I adopted her? Mini gave birth to 2 cute kittens last Friday. Therefore, I have a total of 4 cats at the moment. Thankfully, Mini and her 2 kittens are doing fine at the moment. I will post more pictures when they are older. They look like little hamsters at the moment.
If you’ve got cats and you would like to network on Catster, click on my Catster profile links and add me as your friend.
I have not decided whether to keep the 2 kittens or not. I think I would either put them up for adoption once they are about 3 months old or keep them. It took me about 4 weeks to get my 2 cats Milo and Mini to get along. Milo does not seem to recognise Mini since she gave birth to 2 kittens. Most likely this is due to her new scent and the scent of her 2 new kittens, which are both new to him. What that means is I would have to redo the whole introduction process again.
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I really messed up my home page of my Oasis Fanatic web site. What I did in the beginning was I redirected the default home page “/index.php” to “/home/index.php”. I initially put the home page in its own directory “/home/”.
Over time, I began to realise the dumbness of this idea. Therefore, I made the home page at “/index.php” the default while I kept the other home page at “/home/index.php” intact.
Another problem is people usually link back to my site directly to the domain name http://www.oasisfanatic.com. In the search engine’s eyes, I have 3 home pages:
The reason why home page 2 exists is because I link back to my home page on my web site’s navigation to that address when I should have linked it directy to home page 1. There are no links to home page 3 on my web site but there are some old back links to this page.
How Did I Fix My Multiple Home Page Problem?
What I learnt from this experience is to simply link back to the domain name of the web site for the home page. This would improve the SEO of your home page as well as your web site as the search engines won’t think you have duplicate content on your “multiple home pages”. They regard “http://www.domain.com” and “http://www.domain.com/index.html” as 2 seperate pages.
Tagged As: home page seo, multiple home pages
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