This is because I love Ben Folds, especially because he is a bit nerdy. Such Great Heights, with common everyday household percussion. Via kottke.org.
What in God’s name is whoever doing searching for wan porn?
If the web was as big (as in popular) in the early nineties as it is now, I wouldn’t have had to write all my physics, chemistry, and economics notes on A4 paper with colourful pens and illustrations, — I would’ve been friggin’ addicted to NoteMesh. Via Lifehacker.
Whoa. 529 diggs. People commenting about this whole WordPress shopping mod (someone said I was rambly — aye, I am, I do this stream of consciousness thing, I can’t help it! But I didn’t think it was that disorganised) on the digg site. Someone else says it’s an ugly hack. My stats are through the friggin’ roof (by my standards)!
I thought when it was posted on Weblog Tools Collection, oh nice, he thought it was okay enough to post and my stats were quite good. I was busy all day today (I don’t think I’ve been hopping on and off buses quite this much in one day before), and when I got home and got online, I decided to have a look at my stats and was totally dumbfounded.
(And a little mortified. Or in my local parlance, so pai seh.)
I certainly did not expect this amount of attention or exposure… I thought this was a very niche thing, for the few people who didn’t like OSCommerce or Joomla or ZenCart and didn’t have the money to buy a super shopping cart package of scripts. For example, the person I did this WP mod for had started with OSCommerce, but her admin didn’t want her uploading the Contributions she’d need in order to get the site set up the way she wanted — so I worked out this solution for her (her site’s not ready yet, as she’s still working on the product descriptions and images, so I’m not going to mention it here).
I thought maybe a few people might find it useful, especially if they like WordPress, but I did not imagine THIS MANY PEOPLE liking and disliking my concept, or at least spending the time discussing its pluses and minuses.
At the moment my WP Shopping project is popular on del.icio.us for web design, blog, and shopping. This is the most knocking-me-over-with-a-feather 15 seconds of Internet fame that’s left me scratching my head, because I honestly thought it wasn’t really that big a deal. But it’s nice that people give a damn.
To those visiting my bloog for the first time, please do understand: I am not a web designer in the normal sense of the word. I don’t have any drawing / traditionally artistic skills, but I do know HTML and CSS and taught myself all this stuff and still refuse to use a WYSIWYG editor. And I sure as hell am not a programmer or computer techie person. I use computers because I like what the web offers. I really like WordPress. If I can modify WordPress to do things for people’s sites and thus cost them a little less money, I’ll do it. And I enjoy the challenge. So thanks for all the links and visits, I really appreciate that people take the time to comment!
Hah, I didn’t even post it on my own WordPress installation! I wasn’t going to post it here (mainly because I forgot), but since I’ve been dugg (how exciting) after I submitted the link to Weblog Tools Collection (after I sent him an e-mail and, once again, FORGOT to include the link, yes I am an idiot).
I do really hope it’s useful.
Update: guess what? I forgot to link to it on this post as well. Here it is — How to turn a normal WordPress installation into a working online shop (without too many tears).
This is nuts. Someone kills his father, and because he played GTA: Vice City, it’s not really his fault?!
The latest lawsuit lays the blame for the muders at the feet of GTA: Vice City. It describes Cody Posey as being obsessed with the title and says that had Posey not played the game, “he would not have killed.” The suit accuses the Take-Two and the other defendants of a “civil conspiracy” in creating and marketing the game, saying that the possibility of “copycat violence” should have been so plainly evident to them that they should never have released the game.
How bloody ridiculous. Games, movies, books, music, and whatever medium you wish to pick on do not make people commit violent crime. They choose to do it. Someone who was going to be violent may look to these influences for inspiration, but if it wasn’t GTA it would have been something else. Maybe it would have been the film Elephant.
It is irresponsible and stupid for people to blame a video game for someone’s decision to shoot and kill his abusive father. Violence on teevee and in video games do desensitise people to pain and suffering, I agree with that, but someone who is normal and non-violent isn’t ‘turned’ by watching something or playing a game, they have to have that in their psyches in the first place.
This reviewer is not a reviewer, nor is she a critic or a cinephile or anything serious and academic related to film. She just really likes going to the cinema.
Okay, speaking in the third person is over. It feels weird.
I love Robin Williams, his hotness is an island in the sea of normal hot people. He is especially hot in [tag]The Night Listener[/tag], a movie about a radio presenter (Gabriel Noone) who finds himself alone after his partner moves out, and finds himself embarking on a telephone friendship with a young boy (Pete Logand) who has written about his painful childhood of sex abuse, and is, tragically, dying of AIDS.
The first thing that got me was the look in Gabriel’s eyes when he saw Jess moving more stuff out of his house. Wow. I almost cried seeing the pain.
(I’m pretty easily affected by emotion in films. It’s kinda fun.)
Okay, spoilers now.
… and windows closer
Snapped on the second floor of People’s Park Centre. Heeheehee.
Some interesting discussion on the six-month old ban on smoking in Scotland. I do imagine that businesses that used to allow smoking indoors have suffered, but it’s kind of spurious to claim that this ban will cause more street fights and smoking in front of children at home.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Smoking is a choice. Unfortunately, this choice has a negative effect on other people, and by now these cannot be claimed as unintended. If you choose to smoke in front of your children and they suffer later, you caused their ailments. Choosing when and where to smoke a cigarette is not something you cannot control. I bet even the most diehard smokers can opt to leave off for a few minutes if they have to.
Create smoking rooms like they have at Changi airport. That’s a solution for the winter, eh?
Elsewhere: Tobacco firms sued over low tar (my cigarette of choice all those years ago was Marlboro Menthol Lights — had I been fooled?!).
Hehe. This is like the countrywide WiFi access (well, to me, anyway). Soon people will be able to register and access mobile-specific .mobi addresses.
Only one in 10 mobile owners use their phones to surf the net due to concerns over cost, speed and poor content.
I don’t because when I’m out, I’m out. I don’t intend to spend my time out of home and away from my computer staring at a tiny screen. It was fun to find out that I could if I wanted to, though.
Yesterday was a good day for me, exercise-wise. I waited till 2pm before I went to the gym, and went for a run at about 6.45pm. It took me less time to run (jog) 6km (44 minutes) than it normally did to run 5.6km (45 minutes). I attribute it to doing light exercise later in the day, it was cooler due to rain in the morning, and I’d had a great night’s sleep. The moment I started on my jog, I noticed that I was feeling better and going a smidge faster than I usually do.
I still sweat like a rapist, though.
And… my granddad the pop culture junkie: “No, I’m not going to Newton with you [he loves Newton Circus], I want go home and watch the results of Singapore Idol.”
Pseudonymity alleges that The Straits Times covered up Temasek Holdings’ role in the purchase of Shin Corp, and quotes an article in the Financial Times to prove just how duplicitous our national press is.
I’ve read — more than once — articles in the ST on the tangle Temasek has got itself into (and how it’s claiming it’s done nothing wrong). Seeing how unfriendly the ST is to archiving or any sort of free access to articles, here are some I’ve found hosted elsewhere: Temasek’s acquisition of Shin Corp, Shin Corp sale above board, says family, Shin Corp deal fully complied with Thai law, says Temasek.
I’m not sure how objective the articles are, but they’re not hiding anything by not mentioning Temasek in an article about Thaksin’s political troubles. It’s merely straying off on a tangent, and it was probably prudent of the editor (and I’m surprised the editor actually did their job!) to not include distracting information.
And pretty selective reading on the part of Pseudonymity.
OMG. The Micropack Land Sport is perfect (I use a Fila mobile phone / wallet tucked into a bumbag at the moment) and I loooooove it. Again via Popgadget.
Wow, these people are seriously disturbed, attacking and killing pregnant women to claim their babies. Not to say they’re insane enough to avoid responsibility — in this case, Tiffany Hall definitely planned this and carried it out coldbloodedly. Her post-offense behaviour totally sunk her (confessions tend to do that). Via digg.
Neil had thought this sort of product would be the next big thing, and here it is: the iTrax Mixing Console. Via Popgadget.
Read A Standardista’s Alphabet. Heh.