After using WordPress for so long, I have got acustom of this CMS engine and grew out of Movable Type. My long standing photo blog which was previously powered by movable type have been migrated to wordpress. The migration was fairly simple, just export from MT and inport at WordPress and it was done. I manage to tweak the 555 photoblog theme to customize it to my liking and what you see above is the fruit of my customization. In addition, I have also moved from /pblog to the root of my domain. So, now who ever comes to wekgna.com will first come to my photo blog, which fits into what I want to maintain of my personal existance on the web. When I first start blogging years back, I hate to write, and I only post photos, and hence the my photoblog was born. I was on blogspot then. I could still remember, I first subscribe to a free host 100mb that host perl, and movable type was free for all at that time. I name my blog Sweet & Sour, witih the notion that life is full of sweet and sour memories, and they are captured through my photos. After some revisions of movable type upgrade, wordpress starts to spring up on the side. I started to use wordpress out of curiousity and created my ‘blog‘ named ‘My So Called Life’ with wordpress. By that time, I started to write more and took photo less. As my ‘blog’ on wordpress grew, my photoblog powered by movable type starts to be neglected. I have also moved into my own new domain called wekgna.com, which is my name spelled backwards. Not untill a few days ago I tried to post a photo and found issues with movable type. I have upgraded to the latest version and it seams to be so much complicated. So, I decided to ditch movable type and migrate my entire photoblog into wordpress. This brings us here today to this post. I would like to annouce that my old photoblog at wekgna.com/pblog has been shutdown, and now moved to the root of the domain, which is www.wekgna.com. Enjoy the photos, and subscribe for new postings if you like my style of photography.

To welcome the new year, I have implemented a new theme, not a home grown them, but rather a plug a play theme. Gridline lite is the name, it is a simple version of the Magazine styled Gridline theme. I wanted a 3 column theme to test out if this indeed is best theme layout for moneterizing the blog. With a little nib tuck, whoala, a new theme is released, within just an hour. Unfortunately, I could not get it to look nicely on IE, IE just too regid and does not freely render CSS. Firefox on the other hand rules…

I have been in the company for almost 3 weeks now, and I have not seen a single techqie yet. I have seen quite a lot of fasionable people, but none that are hung up on gadgets nor computers. I was working with one of the manufacturing expert asking her if she has found the thumb scanner next to the laptop screen useful? And her response was like, eh, what’s that thing? When I explain what it was, I can see the amazement on her eyes that her 1 year old laptop has this feature. I have also notice that 50% of the population uses WinXP default theme and color scheme, and 50% of the population uses the windows classic look. I was surprise that they know how to use the window classic to speed up their computer. I was in a discussion with one of the program manager and I commented him on how smart he is to use windows classic to speed up the laptop. He noted that he was thought to do it by someone, but didn’t know the purpose. Anyway, his laptop was only a little over a year old, and didn’t need the speed boost anyway. Everyone seams to use the computer for its intention and none did any personalization. None has any sticker on their laptop as well. How boring. Well, this is going to change. I will be the first to have stickers and the minute I get my new laptop, I will pimp it up with OSx theme. Lets see if I manage to get some heads turn and poison them to modify the desktop like I did with my previous company.

Taking some pointers from Stoyan Stefanov’s “13 Simple Steps” in web site optimization and Andrew Faulkner’s “Beautiful Sites with no (or very few) Images“, I got my inspiration for my next blog design. In addition to this, my comments has been screwing up and it appears dodgy on IE. It would be a challenge to achieve simple markup, keeping what is only needed, and no image at all. Well, maybe a tiny image for the title or header is ok, but generally, no image rule would be a challenge to design a eye pleasing site. Let the Challenge begin…

After months of nib and tuck, I have finally completed the new theme for the site code name ‘Sandjos’. The theme was inspired by Joshua Bryant’s blog design of which I admire a lot. Simple yet elegant and I tried to achieve that through Sandjos. The theme’s backbone was the latest sandbox release and thus the code name Sandjos. The header picture is drawn by a very talented Alex, whom I found at Deviantart. Feedback appreciated..