We are now on the latest WordPress version 2.6.2. Just upgraded… wonder if it resolves the email blogging problems with the older versions (no Rich Text support, cannot email images for blogging).
Hmm… seems like some Unicode settings are off as well… at least one category is showing ?? instead of Chinese characters.
Just started to add links to the blog… Colafish will have to keep up the good work. This is just to start it off…
It seems that people often dote on bad news. But it is really not difficult to understand why. Every day, we are bombarded with bad news, especially sensational ones that can help popularise a blog, a magazine, or a newspaper. I normally get my news from GoogleNews. I believe the news headlines there are picked from the most viewed news from around the world. Obviously, it is mostly bad news. (P.S. You can get slightly more localised news if you go for the website for your country. E.g. add .au for australia)
Here’s a good news for today though. One that I haven’t heard much talking about outside of China… China has successfully launched, landed and completed a spacewalk! Read more about it here. I think it is such a great accomplishment, not only because they did it, but also did it in accordance to their previous plans, and without much politicking (at least not that I have heard/read about, and certainly not enough to delay or derail the mission). China and its leaders do really inspire trust and respect IMHO. At least, they really do punish people who are outright doing wrong, whether they are part of the Communist Party, and irrespective of how high up they are. This is something that many “democratic” countries fail to do…
Anyway, I am really happy for China. I think they are the best hope to keep the fascination, enthusiasm and even fanaticism for space alive! NASA is good, but unfortunately, too much politics and internal money-siphoning (probably — why everything is so expensive and slow?) just doesn’t do it much good. I would also wait for all those private companies now trying to make space travel a reality for the masses…
Definitely welcomed good news after reading all the upsetting news on Malaysia’s politics… 
I may have been away from Malaysia for 13 years (almost half my life), but there’s still a Malaysian in me… And at least for me, there is no place like one’s birthplace. Maybe that’s why even turtles keep going back to the same place to lay their eggs, even though they realise that humans are there to trap them, disturb them and remove the eggs they so lovingly placed in their yearly ritual until they are now almost extinct…
P.S. Colafish is still incubating the little one… Adam must be too comfortable in mama’s tummy.
Been quiet for awhile over here. Colafish is feeling like a humpty dumpty. The little one inside has been rather naughty, either that or he has been busy exercising…
Meanwhile, I have destroyed my 5+ years old Toshiba laptop recently. The LCD screen is broken, so there is no cheap way to fix it. It still works — with a cracked screen!
Colafish is actually happy that I broke that old laptop, forcing me to purchase a new one… So, I picked up a really cheap one to replace it. It is the Acer Extensa 5220, for an unbelievable price of AUD399 after rebate! I paid an extra AUD50 to get a 2GB RAM added, giving a total of 2.5GB. It is actually a really good computer for the price! It includes nearly everything one can expect:
I can also pay about AUD40-50 to get a built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. From one review online, it appears that the CPU is a slotted one which would accept a Phenom based processor if I wanted to change the processor (and claim that I have a Core 2 Duo, for example)… Anyway, the system works well… I only dislike Vista with a passion (crashed like nobody’s business), and I have already uninstalled it and I am using Windows XP SP3 at this moment… That was another reason why I chose this cheap system — it has full support for XP unlike some newer laptops with only official support/drivers for Vista. I also wished it came with all the cables, but well, I have ordered an S-Video cable for AUD3.50 on Ebay. No biggie.