Creating a favicon is easy. Only three steps are required. Read more »
How I execute mosquitoes
How I execute mosquitoes? Electrocute them. I kill mosquitoes with such cruelty that will make Buddhists cringe. Frankly, I only launch wars against roaches, mosquitoes and flies, to list in an order of descending intensity of hatred. Read more »
WordPress theme Tarski hacks
For a very short while, I forayed into TextPattern and wanted it to replace WordPress. It turned out that WordPress is just too convenient and powerful to be replaced. But I am still very impressed by Textile formating syntax embedded in TextPattern. Read more »
Postfix for WordPress
Setting up a basic single domain postfix mail server was not as difficult as I imagined. Configuring a postfix mail server is not rocket science, and here is what I did to configure postfix for my WordPress blog. Read more »
Some loopholes in Cambridge BEC test
I had the chance to be an oral examiner for Cambridge Business English Test. I participated all the three levels: preliminary, vantage and higher. I noticed there are some loopholes in the test, and frankly I think ESOL could do better to make more money. Read more »
Putty with ssh key authentication
When using ssh keys generated by puttygen.exe, I receive a “Server refused our key” error. Then I found out that the error-proof way is this: generate ssh key pairs under Linux, and then convert the private key into putty format using puttygen.exe. Read more »
Quotable Quotes from Movies
Well, it is June 4th and I have to write something on the Internet.
For about two weeks, I have been watching Avatar: the Last Airbender to ease the burden of my major work — revising my doctoral dissertation. I enjoyed season one and two of this animation abundantly, but season three just ruined the intense flow of the storyline. I especially hated episodes 305 about Ember Island, because the terrific adventures of Avatar is turned into stupid beach dates stories. Episode 317 is also a boring roundup of past story lines, leaving me the impression that the producers are trying hard to
invent something to fill an empty show slot. Read more »
A belated resolution for the year 2009
I know this is a bit late to make resolutions at this moment, but I still have time, don’t I? These are the things I really want to do and achieving any of them will make me look back this year with contentment. The aims are somewhat tuned down in case I fail shamelessly. Read more »
Enabling Webcam for HP DV2000T laptop under Lenny
Owning a slightly dated rig actually has one great benefit — the software for it is mature enough that not too much hacking or hair-tearing is needed. This is exactly the case for my two-year-old HP Pavilion DV2000t laptop. When staring installing Debian on it, I found the hardware is well supported. Read more »
Publish blog posts under VIM
I was looking for a blog publishing tool under Bash environment in Linux, and my search brought even better results — vimpress. It is VIM powered blog publishing tool.
There have been many introductions to this wonderful VIM plugin, but allow me to repeat the information just for my own record. Read more »