I tried to e-file today, only to find myself waiting for 27 images to load. They didn’t. The largest image was 700×800 pixels in size, and there was no ALT text indicating what each of the images stood for. There was a text-based nav bar, but some links were broken or led to pages with …
Month: February 2003
Major freakdom – USC just told me they didn’t get my final letter of recommendation, which is a major shocker to me, because I sent off two packages a few days before the December deadline last year. In fact, I distinctly remember posting my boss’s letter, as I was so tired from preparing my final …
Meanwhile, over at UIE: ‘…having a usable web site is not always enough to convince users to transact. Even if a user can complete a transaction on your site, doesn’t mean that they will transact. To be successful, sites must go beyond Usability by focusing on Persuasive Design. They must motivate users by taking advantage …
I just spent the last three hours holed up in my studio, running through the side As and Bs of almost all the diskettes I’ve stored my music on. Each disk contains twenty tracks, some good, some bad, many incomplete. I don’t know why I’m writing this down, because it won’t matter to most of …
I’m getting baptised on Sunday, March 2 at St George’s church at Minden Road, Singapore. Everybody’s welcome to watch me get water drizzled down my head. Correction. I might be changing the date to Sunday April 6, and the good news for everyone who’s interested in attending, is that it MIGHT be at 10 am. …
Gripe, gripe, gripe. I was able to access my site at work yesterday afternoon, but not at home last night. I suspect a DNS update lag on different networks. Anyway… Out today: Nielsen reiterates on website real estate. The new Movable Type 2.6 should be out anytime this week, if my calculations are correct. Recently …
Some of you have noticed that this site was (once again) down, over the weekend. This was because my web host screwed up big time. You see, I own two domain names. One is vantan.org, the other is a dormant account which hasn’t been used for anything yet. I asked them to RENEW vantan.org and …
The time is 10.43pm. I am now downloading the current/old St George’s website as a backup (in case things go terribly wrong later). 11.06pm. The old site has been backed up. I have uploaded a placeholder page while I replace old with new. 11.36pm. Making some amendments before uploading virtually all the new files. 11.48pm. …
I was shopping for a new domain name for my good pal Van Heng, when I decided to do a WHOIS on Microsoft. And you won’t believe what the hackers have done to their registry. This is a sample of what was listed on their server WHOIS (with additional insights from me, in brackets): MICROSOFT.COM.Z-IS-THE-BEST-Z.IFUD.COM …
The new St George’s website will be up soon. As in, real soon. The folks at church need a new site to host their forthcoming activities like Alpha and Friendship Sunday. In the meantime, click around the old site before it gets replaced. Try not to get lost >;-) Back to working on the new …