Jan’s blogs about life

Having switched over to using digital SLR photography, the amount of storage space required for storing and backing up RAW files jumped up tremendously! I had considered various options for data backup, but in the end settled on using the bulkier Western Digital My Book external hard drive instead. Read more »

During my last upgrade, I crashed my Wordpress websites and after I made the web site to work, it broke the Fantastico DeLuxe automatic upgrade feature. Manual upgrading was a little tedious and I had to go through several steps to make any update to the Wordpress installation. I did find another way to make use of automatic update and it worked by using the Simple Script feature provided by Blue Host web hosting company. Read more »

I’ve been looking around for a widget that will display for example the top ten most popular posts in a Wordpress websites blog. The only widget I found was the “Popularity Contest” widget in the Wordpress.org website. Unfortunately many users complained about it being buggy, not working with fatal error or not reporting posts that are actually popularly visited by visitors. Read more »

To make your own web site, you need web hosting provider. When it comes to web hosting for personal use, you need one than is not only affordable and cheap, but most important reliable and easy to use. Read more »

Received this in my inbox. Intriguing. Looked like some mathematician has too much time in his hands. Nevertheless, still quite fun. Just grab yourself a calculator and follow the instruction. Have fun! Read more »

Finally it was done. Having used the 301 redirect for those web pages created in Drupal to this Wordpress websites, I could safely uninstall my Drupal installation. Read more »

I just about had it with Microsoft Word 2007. Even after using the regedit fix by deleting the data and options in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/12.0/Word of the registry files, Microsoft Word 2007 still crashes whenever I started it up. It took many frustrating tries to force that program to start up properly. Read more »

I always wondered why whenever I start up the Office Word 2007 in Windows Vista and before it could run, it just turn sickly pale and then died by crashing. I have to start it up several times before it finally stabilizes. Very irritating and left me to contemplate using the alternative from Open Office. Read more »

After manually shifting the content from the Drupal database to the Wordpress websites, I needed to redirect the traffic from the Drupal pages to the new url. There are several ways of redirecting web pages and each has its pros and cons. According to several web sites, the best way to redirect is to use the htaccess 301 redirect. Read more »

I have been thinking about it awhile. With so many disparate SQL database and sub web site scattered around this personal domain of mine, I thought of cleaning it up a bit. After all, most of the incoming web site traffic is to this blog anyway. This might also meant breaking some incoming links. Read more »