Archive for March 2004
adopt a blog
Posted by: pureessence on: March 31, 2004
- In: geeky
- 14 Comments
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 [...]
can't return without a tag
Posted by: pureessence on: March 31, 2004
- In: personal
- 9 Comments
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?
i'm accepted to the graduate school
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 [...]
php and easter
Posted by: pureessence on: March 29, 2004
- In: geeky
- 5 Comments
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
stop all the banning
Posted by: pureessence on: March 26, 2004
- In: mixed
- 10 Comments
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 [...]
imperfect google
Posted by: pureessence on: March 24, 2004
- In: geeky
- 10 Comments
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 [...]
what's big right now
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 [...]
new theme: tulip
Posted by: pureessence on: March 19, 2004
- In: plug
- 21 Comments
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 [...]
cleartype and drop shadow don't mix
Posted by: pureessence on: March 19, 2004
- In: geeky
- 8 Comments
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 [...]
my idea to fight referral spam
Posted by: pureessence on: March 17, 2004
- In: geeky
- 8 Comments
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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