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Browsing entries posted on May 2007
Study Week
Don’t you just hate study week? I am a type of person where I can’t really study when I am at home. And now, just one week before exam, classes stops and they have this so called study week. Gah, I hate it. So anyways, I will be taking a temporary break from the internet and start studying (hopefully!!). Exams finishes on 13th June, so I guess I will only update my blog by then.
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DataKL Rocks!!
I just transfered myself from my previous free host to a paid local hosting company. After searching around for webhosting, I found DataKL and decided to host with them. And guess what? I bought a hosting from them because I thought it’s cheap. And I didn’t even consider how good is their uptime and support. Fortunately, they are bunch of good guys. Support has been speedy and friendly so far. Uptime, as claimed by them is 99.5% in the period of 3 months. I believe it’s quite reasonable.
Why Change?
I have been a cheapskate for too long. I believe it’s time for me to move along to serve myself and my readers better. Since most of my readers are from Malaysia, I believe changing to a local host is a good choice. Speed is great, and to compare with my previous US free host, it’s way faster 
This is what I want, and this is also what I want my readers to enjoy 
Comparison??
Of course, before I decide to host with DataKL, I did survey around for hosting. I did consider Exabytes and IPServerone, but both of them is so expensive. All of their hosting plans are over RM100. Overbudget la.. I did consider Hive Hosting too, since it’s from Sarawak. Just search for “hive” in WebHostingTalk, you’ll be surprised with the complains.
There are other web hosting that is within my budget, but their space and bandwidth allocation is too little. See? I am such a cheap skate. But fortunately, DataKL provide a special plan, which is cheap and has reasonable space and bandwidth. I quickly signup with them since the offer is limited to 150 accounts only.
Conclusion
Speedy and friendly support is what people wants. And it would be better if support is available through Instant Messenger like MSN or Y!M. Support would be even faster that way. So here it is, free advertisement to you people since you all are doing a great job. Keep up the good work 
Updates: Lately my WordPress is double pinging PPS and BlogMalaysia. I wonder what is wrong with my WordPress installation? I will look through my wordpress and see if there’s anything wrong with it.
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I Suck At It
Starcraft 2 teaser website is launched and everyone is talking about it. My friend MSN-ed me about it, and I was too lazy to press spacebar when replying him. I typed isuckatit, because I know I am always suck at Starcraft game. After like a few seconds, I realised that typing isuckatit can be interpreted as I Suck A Tit too.
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Powered by WP2.2
GeminiGeek’s Online Journal is now powered by the latest WordPress 2.2 “Getz”. Reminds me of Hyundai Getz rather than saxophonist Stan Getz
Upgrading is a breeze, with the help of WinMerge. I just downloaded both version 2.1.3 and 2.2, then using WinMerge, I compare them and only upload changed files. After that, I run upgrade.php. This is so far the easiest major upgrade for WordPress, compare to my previous WP1.5 to WP2.0 upgrade which has too many changes and breaks almost ALL the plugins I use. Good job on this version. Kudos to the WordPress developer
I do hope upgrades will be as easy as this for the later version. Perhaps just downloading small upgrade script and all the upgrade is fully automatic? That would be great, but I’m not sure if it is possible or not
Note: For those who came from PPS, BlogsMalaysia Ping or Blogtal I am sorry for the multiple ping. I’m not sure what happened, but I think it’s either my webhost’s fault or glitch in WP2.2. I never install any auto-ping plugins, so I am now not sure what causes the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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