So I tinker and make website, and then do personal blogs about it
Welcome to my web site and blogs! Have you been thinking about how to make your own web site and wondering how to go about doing it? Building a web site is not all that difficult. You don't have to be a technical whizz to create a nifty looking web site. It's all about choosing the right web hosting company and using the right software to run and maintain a web site. Your web site can be your own personal Wordpress websites blog or you could run an ezine, a forum site or even an online photography sites.
Though this a personal website which I use it for blogging; I also use it to test out various web site software scripts for example for CMS (content management system) I've tested out the Wordpress, Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and Postnuke installations; I've also tested out the forum software like phpbb and SMF; I have installed, uninstalled so many times until Google and other search engines may be going bonkers to list and delist this site web URLs. To create a simple website is not too difficult especially if the web hosting company you sign up provides the right tools for doing it. Once the web site is up and ready, how you want to run it, and use it is a bigger challenge than setting it up!
First things first, before you can set up a web site you need a web hosting company and a domain name. So read up this article below or jump headlong into signing up with a web hosting company.
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And of course, I'm just having fun with this web site of mine, and if you want to see what I'm fiddling about with it, do feel free to browse around and check out some of the CMS installation and see if it is something you like to have for your own web site. And of course you could hang around and just read my blog build using Wordpress in this website.
Below here is an RSS feed of Jan's Blogs About Life for your preview. Happy browsing! And if you are ready to start web site, do sign up with any of the above and come back often for tips on how to make your own web site, tweaking it and making it do what you want it to do!
Cheers!
Jan.
Finally installed Windows 7
It was time to blast my old Windows Vista to smithereens and install Windows 7. I’ve been using Vista without reformat for 1 year and 8 months. That’s pretty good for Windows. It was much better than the other previous windows incarnation where just about every six months I have to blast the whole installation [...]
Posted on 27 July 2010 | 12:37 am
Google Webmaster Central DNS Verification Method
Google Webmaster Central DNS verification method is a little tricky to use in comparison with the HTML and META tag version. However there are instances where you would need to use DNS verification in situation where your domain is not using a normal web hosting provider and such you have no way to upload a [...]
Posted on 21 July 2010 | 6:38 am
When it rains, it pours
When it rains, it pours. It's not too bad at other times as it cools the hot weather in Malaysia. But at rush hour then so sorry-lah! Traffic congestion!Worst! I have to traverse the out dated traffic circle which cannot cope with heavy traffic. Even now I'm sitting in the car listening to some music and still can tap tap on my mobile phone and spill in a nice little blog to kvetch and bemoan
Posted on 20 July 2010 | 4:56 am
Leow surname history
I happen to stumble upon this article about the Leow (廖) surname which is my family surname. Don’t know much about it till I read this article. All I know so far was that my ancestor hailed from Hainan somewhere in the Southern China. Anyway, this article shed some interesting light about the history of [...]
Posted on 20 July 2010 | 3:35 am
Colic in Infants and Colic Cure
It is certainly distressing when there is colic in infants and there are no perfect colic cure for babies with this condition. Just last night I experience my baby who didn’t want to sleep and tried several various ways to sooth the baby and console him to sleep. It wasn’t easy and for some infants [...]
Posted on 18 July 2010 | 9:14 am
More baby stuffs
Lena decided to get another baby stroller. She wanted a lighter weight than the one her friend passed to her. Oh, well... She wants to spend if that makes her happy. Shopping provide a good mood coz it releases some happy mood chemicals in the brain.The Combi baby stroller is light weight and has good design. Anyway after a few years the baby will out grow it.Whoops! After buying the Combi
Posted on 18 July 2010 | 3:47 am
Durians galore direct from orchard
Durians anyone? Definately a hit with my church members. This was to help out with the orang asli mission and now with the durian season on the way there were quite a number of durians from the durian orchard somewhere in Jelebu.There are orang asli people over there and they need a lot of help to alliviate their standing. Aid from government seems to stop whenever the Orang Asli take on the
Posted on 18 July 2010 | 3:30 am
Baby Night Out
It’s baby night out! My wife’s mother was celebrating her birthday at Overseas Restaurant so baby was tagging along in the baby carrier. It was an exciting time for baby, a chance to look at new things. Well mostly new lights. He likes lights and the restaurant was full of it. At on to further [...]
Posted on 17 July 2010 | 10:06 am
My Desktop Computer Becoming Slower, Time to Reformat
Inevitably, Windows based computer will have this annoyance. After a period of time, the desktop computer will become slower and slower. Slow to boot up, slow to shut down. Eventually it start to behave like a snail rather than the speedy computer system that you once bought or build a short couple of years ago. [...]
Posted on 16 July 2010 | 10:32 pm
Careful about Email Spoofing
Received this message that supposedly came from Facebook. But turn out the URLs do not point to Facebook at all. If the link were to be clicked it would redirect you to a Pharmacy website selling fake medicine. This is considered spam. Fortunately it wasn’t a phising website. Losing your account would be tantamount to [...]
Posted on 14 July 2010 | 8:04 pm
Jaundice in newborns and Jaundice treatment
Jaundice in newborns It seems like jaundice in newborns are rather prevalent nowadays. However the jaundice treatment is simple but can be rather costly especially if it drags on. After my baby was born, he had a little jaundice. Normally it should clear by itself but after the third day the paediatrician requested us to [...]
Posted on 14 July 2010 | 1:20 am
And so it is
And so it is, sleep beckons and the morrow, work awaits.No end to the grind,for the earth does not yield its harvest willinglyToil it shall bewither pleasure befor the rewards that trickles inPray then that fortune comesbut heaven remains silentfor what are webut mere gnats on the earthIt was once said either you love Thee or mammonbut without the flow of coinsInsolvency ensuesThus what are we to
Posted on 13 July 2010 | 10:54 am
Bread shop don't know how to do business
Sometime you wonder how this people can survive. This morning I didn't have my usual breakfast as the night I was so busy didn't get a chance to buy bread. I thought I could pop over at King's confectionary near my office to get some breaky.Hard luck. The moment I stepped in I saw their bread shelf was empty. I recall my many previous attempts to get last minute breakfast was thwarted by people
Posted on 12 July 2010 | 8:15 pm
Baby is exploring
Baby is about 6 weeks old and he is beginning to like looking at things. According to baby centre this is the time they are more aware of their surrounding. So to stimulate them we need to play with them.I find that he likes to stare at lights and likes to be carried around to explore the house. My mom-in-law has other ideas about carrying the baby around in that it might spoil him.I guess we
Posted on 11 July 2010 | 6:26 am
Indonesian Massage
My wife found an Indonesian massage. This lady is good and very affordable and was recommended by friend. After my wife delivered she needed to get back into shape and the use of massage to get her tummy flat was one of the methods.Since the Indonesian massage was already here may as well employ her services for some massage for me too. I liked this style over that of Thai massage becausethe
Posted on 11 July 2010 | 4:56 am
SM Confucian Alumni 104th Anniversary
The 104th Anniversary SM Confucian alumni dinner was a good way to catch up with old friends. Though my memory was a rather fuzzy as some I could recognize their faces but couldn't recall their names. Year of 1986 was some 24 years ago. Faces still looked the same except of course body shape might change, basically still can recognize their faces. Still it was good to meet up again. I guess
Posted on 10 July 2010 | 5:43 am
Baby 1st day home
Mother and child has been staying at USJ house for the pass 40 days or so. Since we got a temporary maid may as well make use of her services and clean up the house in BU. Mother wants to see what things she will need for baby and well baby will tag along. It will be good to stimulate baby with new sights, sound and smell.It's been many weeks since my last clean up of the house though it was a
Posted on 10 July 2010 | 4:00 am
Running around trying to get it done
Busy! That's how it goes. Time passes quickly when you have many things to do. All have to be done, no point procrastinating about it. The problem is to find the time to squeeze in the job to be done. I could try to prioritize and make list; done that before but don't quite work as it should. At least it gives a sense of direction on what needs to be done.Hopefully all this running around will
Posted on 9 July 2010 | 10:05 am
Jhoos dating messenger scam site
I have been getting Jhoos dating messenger invite from friends. All the while I just ignored it. But this time I got curious and decided to click the “Yes” button. But what I see looks awfully suspicious. Instead of a sign up page it asked you to key in your email address and password! The [...]
Posted on 9 July 2010 | 12:13 am
Work permit for maid from vietnam
When it comes to government matters sometimes the job is best done by an agent who knows their way around bureacracy. The agent that we employed was rather eccentric but does get the job done. We wanted a maid to help out in the daily household chores and taking care of baby. Then there is the need to send baby over to USJ house for my mom-in-law to look after the child. My felt her mom needed a
Posted on 7 July 2010 | 7:14 am
Running under the weather
Need to do my weekly exercise but the weather here today was not coorperating. It stopped then started again. And while I was making run around the park it began to drizzle heavier. 15 minutes into my run I have to give up my exercise routine as I was beginning to get soaked. Well better than nothing.
Posted on 7 July 2010 | 7:01 am
Build a better mouse trap and customers will beat a path to you
Now tell me which marketing student haven’t learned about this phrase: “Build a better mouse trap and customers will beat a path to you.” And you know what? It doesn’t work that way in real life and many marketing people will tell you that. Unfortunately those who didn’t study marketing or blur about the marketing [...]
Posted on 7 July 2010 | 2:03 am
Important To Back Up My PC
It’s important to back up my PC. To the point of paranoia even. We are working in a knowledge base environment. Without business information we can’t make an informed decision. We need data to make our analysis, without it we may end up with paralysis (of course there is the other extreme ending with analysis [...]
Posted on 6 July 2010 | 10:47 am
Pos Malaysia Postal Rates July 2010
So Pos Malaysia has revised its postal rates by 100% from 1st July 2010 onwards. They claim their postal usage has been declining and of course they have not revised their rates for the past 18 years. They needed to adjust their rates so that they can revise their pay to the postal workers to [...]
Posted on 4 July 2010 | 11:25 pm
Pivot Blog
One thing about script list in the webhosting software section, they have a list of interesting software for content management, blogs, forums, online calendars, and other interesting software. Some of which you never think about searching online for it. So I happen to bump into this Pivot blogging software that don't even use SQL database management! Intriguing. Will install it and have a look
Posted on 4 July 2010 | 7:32 pm
Making website
I guess for newbie when making website may be difficult to grasp certain concept. But if got soem guidance better than none. I may not be expert but having maintain one for 5 years and several others for many years there is indeed a lot of things to learn. Mind you, you can't just learn them overnight. It takes time to understand why some ways are better than others.The most basic concept that I
Posted on 4 July 2010 | 10:34 am
Weekly family dinner
It is good to have this weekly family dinner to have this family closeness. If one were to follow the empty nest syndrome then all family relation would be lost. Even though parents and sons / daughter may not be living together (for good reasons too like avoiding the usual parental nags) a weekly family gathering is good for fostering good family ties.Seniors need something to look forward apart
Posted on 4 July 2010 | 6:16 am
Assembling the baby cot
Assembling the baby cot is sure ain't easy. Dismantling it was quite a jiffy. But putting it back together single handedly is really tedious. My brother-in-law has no more need of the baby cot and we could use a hand me down to save some money. At about RM600 is not cheap! Sure it is a bit worn but it saves so no need to complain about it. Baby will outgrow it soon enough and you will wondering
Posted on 4 July 2010 | 5:38 am
Make website to scout for business
Can't be denied. Make website for yourself is good in that it helps you to secure new inquiries. Then after that it is entirely up to you to follow through to secure the business. If your company is not keen to make a website, it is to their detriment. So what can you do? Of course company policy is to be followed but that's on their side. There is nothing saying that you can't make your own
Posted on 2 July 2010 | 1:52 am
Heavy Rain! Stucked in office
Must be the tropical monsoon. Well I'm stucked in office. Can't get to my car unless I want to be wet. With this kind of tropical thunderstorm even with an umbrella, you will still get wet!No choice but to wait it out. Such heavy thunderstorm will blow itself out in an hour or so. Just have to sit tight and look for something to do while waiting it out.
Posted on 1 July 2010 | 4:30 am
What to eat
What to eat... What to eat? Sometime when you are on your own you may end up at a loss on just what to have for a meal. My wife is still my in-laws house for her maternity and it is quite a distance to travel over. I wasn't sure if they prepared anything for me so might be better if I go find my own dinner. Oh well, will just settle for a plate of fried rice with egg.
Posted on 30 June 2010 | 6:39 am
Black Apricot
Decided to get some fruits after dinner. Got this delicious black apricot fruit. Doesn't look like black apricot to me but that's what the sign said at the fruit stall next to Jaya Grocer in Jaya 33. Looks more like plum. Not cheap too going for RM7.50 each! Took it back, chilled it and after peeling it, ate it. Tasted ok, not too sweet, not too sour. Value for money? Not really. Just giving it
Posted on 28 June 2010 | 10:42 am
Cure for Boils
I found an interesting cure for boils and have been using it ever since I discovered its effectiveness. Really hate boils especially when it forms in the crevice of your butt or on the surface of your butt where you need to sit (and sleep too if you like me, likes to lie on the [...]
Posted on 28 June 2010 | 2:38 am
How to switch off Bing background
The Bing search engine background is nice and beautiful. But sometimes in an office environment where bosses are keeping a hawkish eye on what their employees are doing, the attractive Bing background is like a beacon for boss watchful eye. So it might be prudent to disable and switch off Bing background and keep yourself [...]
Posted on 28 June 2010 | 1:43 am
After free McD time for car wash
Not bad, not bad. McDonald gave a free Fish-O-Fillet set. I just top up with applepie for a dessert to complete my lunch pack. So that's my lunch meal for the day.While having my munch may as well queue up for a car wash. Weekends is not my preferred date for a car wash as the queue was rather long. But I needed to have my lunch so may well go for it!I haven't washed my car for more than a month,
Posted on 26 June 2010 | 1:17 am
McDonald Drive Through free burger
Having done a little job now time for some grub. Guess what McDonald is having somekind of drive through promotion. Some free burger. We'll since I haven't got lunch yet and was thinking what to eat may as well give this a try.
Posted on 26 June 2010 | 12:50 am
Full Moon Baby Shower
Baby Aiden is fast approaching a month old. Hence the full moon baby shower celebration done by us Chinese.Aiden is growing well. A little chubby on the cheeks. Must all the goodness of mother's milk. He kinda active little fella when he's awake. He will look here, look there, crane his neck to see I don't know what is it that spook his curiosity.That's a good sign of healthy growing baby. A baby
Posted on 25 June 2010 | 9:46 am
Using blogger layout
Using blogger layout system is a little bit more difficult but it has added features the old template style do not have. I finally came around to switch my CH website blog to the new layout system and it took me the better part of a day to get the look and feel similar to the previous template. I could try making it 99% similar looking it would take too much work. I guess an 80% similarity is
Posted on 24 June 2010 | 6:38 am
Words of Inspiration Quotes on Confidence
We all need some encouragement now and then. Sometimes these little words of inspiration quotes can actually help you to spur things along. This world is such that the world does not wait for you. The world does not owe you anything. You have to make it work, put in your own effort and create [...]
Posted on 24 June 2010 | 3:37 am
Always updating stuffs
I'm always updating stuffs on my website. Sometimes it is just minor, like correcting a little typo here and there for those more important articles and pages. And other times to create meaningful links between related post so that visitors to your website might want to read further after landing onto one of your pages. Seems like a never ending job. But that's how it goes if you want to make
Posted on 21 June 2010 | 10:20 pm
MPSJ Carnival Run in Subang Jaya
Running is a good way to keep your health fitness. Ever since I suffered and recovered from plantar fasciitis, I have not participated in any run for several years. My uncle who is an avid runner convince me and several family members to give this MPSJ Carnival Run in Subang Jaya a try. Initially it [...]
Posted on 12 June 2010 | 3:07 am
French Toast Recipe for breakfast
I haven’t really tried making French toast so looking around the internet I found some French Toast Recipe to get going. Making French toast isn’t so difficult; if I could whip some pancakes using the premix flour so how hard is cooking up a French toast breakfast? The only problem was that I should have [...]
Posted on 11 June 2010 | 9:39 pm
Can water be affected by our words?
Can water be affected by our words spoken, emotions, music or even written word for that matter? Received this email message from my cousin, and it was rather intriguing though for most email with outrageous claims or phobias, I would do a quick check to see whether it is an urban legend or is there [...]
Posted on 11 June 2010 | 2:52 am
What Your Email Address Says About Your Computer Skills
Oooh…! Just can’t resist this comic post by TheOatmeal.com, what your email address says about your computers skills. It is so funny. Of course don’t take it as a benchmark tools to evaluate your friends and family, but then you would sort of already know whenever your less techie friends and family member will come [...]
Posted on 7 June 2010 | 11:33 am
Google Reveals Adsense Revenue Share
Finally the Google gods revealed their Adsense revenue share. It is good to have some idea what is their pay out to us poor publisher who rely Google Adsense to power our websites. This may have something to do with the Italian anti-trust suit brought up against them. Nevertheless the transparency is a welcome information. [...]
Posted on 26 May 2010 | 2:12 am
Malaysia Download Speed Comparison
I really can’t take this slow motion internet connection. But what other choice do I have? Just checked Malaysia download speed and guess what I dug out? Found out that Malaysia is ranked #104 at 1.94Mb/s for download and ranked #86 at 0.72Mb/s for upload. Sounds nice? Not if you compare with our nearest neighbours [...]
Posted on 26 May 2010 | 1:37 am
Playing Around with DNS Zone
I’ve been tinkering and fiddling with my domain DNS zone. I tweak my website a lot. This is one interesting hobby, making website, experimenting with a feature here and there and trying something new and see whether it will be useful widget or just some red herring. DNS zoning is about NS nameservers, A Records, [...]
Posted on 6 May 2010 | 10:48 pm
Multiposting hits a snag
I’m trying to create as much exposure as I can by using multiposting services like Twitterfeed which in turns repost to other multipost web apps like HelloTxt and Ping.fm. Unfortunately something broke in Twitterfeed, it couldn’t recognize the API provided by Ping.fm. I could of course shift most of my other social websites to HelloTxt [...]
Posted on 6 May 2010 | 10:20 am
WD Anywhere Backup post review
The Memeo Backup WD Anywhere backup that came bundled with WD MyBook was a good set-it-and-forget-it backup software. It came with the WD Anywhere external hard drive that I bought. I have been using for a good pass 18 months and it was almost quite smooth in its back up function. However recently the latest [...]
Posted on 30 April 2010 | 10:28 pm
Too much coffee is not good for you
I like coffee, and so does many people, but drinking too much coffee do have adverse effect on your health fitness. Despite some research saying that coffee got anti-oxidant so in effect drinking coffee may be good for you too. So in a sense how much coffee is too much? We all like to have [...]
Posted on 20 April 2010 | 9:30 pm
