One hard experience that I have learnt from WordPress is not to jump onto the latest release as everyone else.  Even thought sometimes there’s a security threat, for many times, things are sure to be broken when I do the migration.  Then I would have to spend hours figuring out what’s wrong and dig through the forum sites for solutions.  I have had my blog broken for so many times that I have lost count.  Only recently, I have upgraded to the 2.6.3 and found something broken with Windows Live Writer.  All the < and > character were missing, and so when I post up to the blog, instead of <p>Hello</p>, it becomes pHello/p.  Seams like no one encounter this problem, and when I posted a thread on the forum, no help from there either. 

So, when WordPress 2.7 enters beta 2, I was tempted to migrate.  There were so many features that I need, and yet, this little voice in me asking me not to be crazy.  After all, I am no Bruce Willies in Die Hard nor Mel Gibson in Bravehear, two of my favourite expression for people who are not afraid to die.  Then on the other hand I am a little bored, some spices will sure be a time killer.  Well, lets first do a backup and sleep on it.  Tomorrow will be the right day to Die Hard.

Reading the news from Buddhist Channel, I was intrigue on the news that the Buddha boy who have been meditating in the jungle of Nepal for years was the re-incarnation of Siddhartha Gautama.  I was curious as all this while I learnt from Buddhist text that Buddha, is an enlighten being who have successfully come out of the wheel of suffering (birth and re-birth) through self purification of one’s mind.  Therefore, cannot be reborn again.  If this as a fundamental teaching in Buddhist text, how come there are still so many that believe the Buddha Boy is Siddhartha?  Enlighten me please.

The age of Terabyte has arrived.  You can now get one for USD99.99 with $20 mail in rebate.  Unfortunately, they only ship in the US.  So, if you have friends there who are getting back, you can try to get one.  HDD space are now getting cheaper and cheaper.  The other day, I saw Harvey Norman selling a 500G HDD for RM399, and I thought that was already very cheap, this Terabyte deal is even sweeter.  I believe its a matter of time, before a 1TB HDD hit our shores.  So for now, we can only drool… 

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Update: 

As Kavi have pointed out below, TB have hit our shores, just the low pricing haven’t…

A nice set of iPhones icons that look rather realistic created by janosch500.  It comes with the .PSD file, so that you can customize to your own. 

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Recently, I changed to my new theme with archives by the month on the right side of the blog. It made the site more accessible to old postings, and at one instant, a new friend find past 6 years of life through the archives. Yes, I have been blogging for 6 years. If you think of it, 6 years is quite a long time. If I had a kid then, he/she would be 6 years old now. In 6 years, government could change, as well as people’s life. It is interesting how I lasted this long. Sometimes I do think this blog feeds into my ego, and that is the basis for explaining why I take the time to blog. At times, the blog was a place for me to cool down, for me to vent, and sometimes, I just enjoy playing with the themes. Nevertheless, I am still amaze how I lasted 6 years doing this.

When I frst started, I didn’t like writing. Writing to me is a tedious job. So, I make my blog a photoblog. If you check out post from 2002 and 2003, you will mostly find photos with occasional ramblings. I had my Nikon 2500 then and that little gadget filled my blogs with daily photos of sights and events around me. I am still photobloging, but the frequency has reduced as I have not that many of nice shots that is worth posting. Also, now I writes more, so my focus is more on writings than photos. During my days of photobloging, I manage to score a ‘Noteworthy‘ (top 6 voted photos out of 300 submission) from Photofriday. It was my proud moment in blogging.

I was first introduced into blogging by Albert. He was doing it through BlogSpot then and I was intrigue of easy self publishing engine that BlogSpot offers. Before that, I was building my own web pages during college days on geocities, if you still remember them. They exist today though yahoo. It was unfortunate that I did not safe any of the pages I built, it would be nice to look at them again. I was building pages about movies, that was my passion at that time. When I got back to Malaysia and started to work, I did not have the time for movies nor my geocities anymore, and that sank into oblivion. A couple of years leaving college, I was eager to find out what my old friends were doing. So, I made and printed a newsletter about what I have been up to. I only made one, a year after that, Albert introduce me to BlogSpot, and my blogging hobby begins. Its been 6 years since. 

Through out the 6 years, I have maintain my photoblog and my personal blog for insane rambling.  I venture into videoblogging at a time, and that did not caught on as I did not had the right tool and it takes too much time to edit a video.  I experimented with audio blogging, some of the web services offer a service where you can dial in through a phone and speak your mind.  It will be automatically be converted to MP3 and post to the blog.