Posted by: pureessence on: March 31, 2004
in response to china’s second major block on blogging service typepad.com (last time is to blogspot.com and it’s still blocked), someone came up with the idea of adopt a blog to promote freedom of speech. the idea is simple. if you own a private domain, you can host those blogs that are blocked. that way [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 31, 2004
just curious, how many of you have gone to store that tell you you cannot return a piece of clothing after you cut the price tag off it?
Posted by: pureessence on: March 30, 2004
my professor said the department has decided to accept me to the graduate school even tho i haven’t taken GRE yet. i can take the test as late as the fall semester. but i do want to take it this summer. not too much can go wrong now. starting the fall semester i will be [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 29, 2004
easter must be an important holiday for php. via daynah apparently you can find out the date of easter in this one line of code in php: This year’s easter is on <? echo date (“M-d-Y”, easter_date()); ?> yes it changes dynamtically. easter_days() and easter_date() function
Posted by: pureessence on: March 26, 2004
by changing the background of my site to black i’m joining the protest against china’s banning on personal websites. All typepad.com and blogs.com hosted sites are banned in China starting this morning, a week after China has agreed to amend its constitution to respect human rights. This is another move by the Central government to [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 24, 2004
as i’ve argued before, google’s algorithm is imperfect.. here’s another discussion of its down side. the search results as well as the news results (since on their faq page they said the news follows the search algorithm closely) are ranked by page ranks. PAGE RANK DEFINED: Condensed version PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 21, 2004
is taiwan’s election. something that does affect mainland china and possibly the relationship between US and China. but it’s kind funny how this whole thing is filled with conspiracy (reminds me of the last election in america). it definitely made the top news for quite a few days. it seems to be a big mess [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 19, 2004
i think this theme looks quite soothing. i love the header image i learned a few new tricks while putting together this theme. first i made the cloudy tiled background with photoshop. make cloudy tiled background 1. create a new image. i used 250x250px. you can go whatever. fill the image with the color you [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 19, 2004
While surfing around the internet, sometimes you may come to a website with appearantly nasty looking, unreadable fonts.. well, let me guess, you are probably using IE and that the designer has probably used dropshadow filter in their css for their fonts. why is that? this is because you have cleartype turned on for your [...]
Posted by: pureessence on: March 17, 2004
today i was trying to remove the referral spams i’ve been getting. i found there are so many that it will be way too time consuming to remove them manually. while i do not want to completely rid of my referral script, i can no longer stand all the horrible porno referral spams i’ve gotten. [...]
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