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Minor Site Enhancement
I just re-did my site, featuring several minor enhancement. For those who have noticed, now my homepage is filled with stuff. Head to my home and see what is it like 
Among the cool stuff in my homepage are:
- Featured Work. Now I get to show off 2 of my latest work.
- My Bookmarks. Powered by del.icio.us. I recently got addicted to social bookmarking. Yes people, add me to your network! Let’s share some cool links!
- My Flickr. Obviously, it is powered by Flickr. I am not so much of an avid photographer, but I just wanted to share my pictures
Future plans? Put a Miri Bloggers Digest, alongside with my bookmarks and Flickr. I tried implementing it using the MiriCommunity’s Bloggers List feed, but it doesn’t turn out good. Somehow WordPress’s get_rss function throws some PHP error that I don’t even understand, so I can’t debug it. It is a valid feed. Just that it is not friendly with WordPress I guess. Well, I guess I have to create my own list and digest on my own. Besides, I will be working on a Miri Bloggers Community, something very similiar to Penang Bloggers.
That’s about it. :happy:
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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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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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GeminiGeek.com Revamp
Welcome to the new look GeminiGeek.com. Renamed from Clueless Dream to GeminiGeek’s Online Journal.
Well, there’s quite a number of changes made to this new version of my personal site. The most obvious one is the looks, of course. This new theme consist of 3 main color; white, pink and black. I believe all 3 colours fitted in well.
SubKiller requested me to release this theme, but bad news buddy, I am not going to release this theme, yet. I am currently working on Cherry Berry version 2, and the theme is most probably gonna look like this, of course without the bells and whistles added to this one I’m using. So, stay tune.
This theme is currently running a beta run, or whatever you call it. If you spotted any errors when navigating around, don’t hesitate to leave a comment on this entry or contact me via my email or MSN Messenger at geminigeek [at] gmail [dot] com.
Right, let me explain the changes from Clueless Dream to GeminiGeek’s Online Journal. Other than the looks, I’ve change the site structure. Instead of using the blog subdomain, I decided to change it to /blog directory. It makes more sense like this. For those linking me, it’s time to change the URL. You can either link to me at www.geminigeek.com or www.geminigeek.com/blog.
I will be changing the categories and also rewriting all my profiles and about page. Probably will add some other stuff such as the commenting policy that I plan to do even before the revamp. I will also add a Projects page, so everyone can keep on track of what I am currently working on.
That’s about it I guess. I will explain more on what did I do to my WordPress to get it work to the way I want.
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Default Looks, for temporary
I am now working on the new theme, and I will be able to use it in a day or two. Be patient, alright?
At the mean time, you can enjoy my site, ad-less. This shouldn’t be a bad thing. Hehehe
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