samedi, août 18, 2007
  webhosts.  

so i finally got tired of blogger, and want to switch to a proper web host. (or rather i am planning to, whether it comes through is another matter)

finds out that Movable Type has a free version, so does Expression Engine. Wordpress is free. Typepad isn't. anyhow MT and EE have great looking interfaces and WP has a theme i like alot.

so does that mean WP wins the day. hai i dislike their ugly interface and website though

Bluehost and Dreamhost recommended by WP look cheap, but i wonder about their reliability.

Self-hosting has been somewhat successful on xp. I wonder how to port it over to Ubuntu.

which reminds, is anyone interested in sharing webhost? =]

@ 22:26

  Photo Blogging Time  

i apparently forgot to post a lot of pictures while i was obsessed with Lotro, haha

my old room, at the end of Sem2. actually i was packing stuff


my notice board of photos


sometime during the year




NDP07 floating ghosts on the river


nah this wasnt one of those things


havent seen any nice fireworks this year


Today! i got a new bag. my deuter ac lite 25. surprisingly/unsurprisingly it's also orange/silver/grey




my 2-3 week old shoes. i finally got shoes from Pedro, been eyeing that shop for the entire year. liking it more and more


@ 00:03

lundi, août 13, 2007
  Blog Hosting and Modern Prince  

Spent the greater part of the day checking out blog programs and server programs, and trying to install Apache webserver and Movable Type, and MySQL, and Perl. to no avail. and IIS7 too. it only works abit. sigh.
does anyone have any recommendation on whether Movable Type or Wordpress is better? =]
or does anyone know how to host =p

anyway today's Sunday Times had this decent article on LKY. quoted out from the book The Modern Prince, by Carnes Lord.
i like this para
"A final lesson, however, is that the autocratic temptation is difficult to resist, even - indeed, particularly - for leaders of the stature of de Gaulle and Lee. It is easy enough to understand why. Both men were far from ordinary politicians; and their greatness threw into relief the littleness of the political competition.

Aristotle observes that in a situation where the virtue and political capacity of a single individual is so great that is is no longer commensurate with that of others, there are only two choices: to exile such a person, or 'for everyone to obey(him) gladly, so that persons of this sort will be permanent kings in their cities'. "

Struck me as a nice thought. Sounds rather true too. Extremities are always unbalancers, and can never be properly accepted into society.
There was also another point that "autocratic temptation is difficult to resist". I like this book for it's indepth and causal analysis of LKY and his government's actions and decisions, the situations and conditions which prompted them to react and decide Singapore's future the way they did. In some ways, we can see that certain parts of his background and Singapore's state influenced decisions. When we look back in history, and analyse everything to bits, we find that in all ingenuity lies a certain obvious decision which we were not aware of.
An old man's memories are never perfect.

@ 00:51

samedi, août 11, 2007
  Singapore Marathon 2007  

anybody else going for Singapore Marathon? finally decided on 21km half marathon.

link to site

but something is wrong with their registration link, so here's the correct one
www.singaporemarathon.com/en/regs

@ 15:17

   

i just can't get the tune for the "I, wannabe" song out of my head. or rather, the "there's no place i'd rather be"

not good. i can't forget the wannabe thing. would we, 10-20 years into the future, say that we are true-blue singaporeans, like true new yorkers, haha.

@ 10:21

Lord of the Rings Online!
Level 47 Elf Hunter Vindyamiriel

song of the moment:
de Jax
孙燕姿 - 雨天
周杰伦 - 珊瑚海

林俊杰&金莎 - 被风吹过的夏天
Kitaro - Symphony of Dreams
James Blunt - You Are Beautiful
Clannad - Seachran Charn Tsiail
Céline Dion - En attendant ses pas
ASIE - Et puis la terre
陈奕迅 - 十年
Yanni - Before I Go
Céline Dion/Garou - Sous le vent Dido - White Flag
梁静茹 - 如果有一天 [歌/词]
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

6 km

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