日本随想
前几天去了一趟日本。度假，玩，看看传说中这个让祖国人民又爱又恨的国度是怎么样的。
How to turn off annoying invitations on Facebook?
Yes, unlike some privacy freaks, I do have a Facebook account. And yes, I like to check out my Facebook from time to time and have it on my phone so that I can see the latest status update from my friends. However, it becomes really annoying when I am constantly getting notifications about …
Mounting gpt partitions on Raspberry Pi
I was pretty excited when I received my Raspberry Pi last week as a replacement for my aging Tonidoplug V1 since due to its lack of support to the newest OS distributions (other than ArchLinux, which I am not too familiar with). I am using 3.6.11+ Linux, which at the time of writing is the …
散步随笔
吃了晚饭，决定出去走走。 不知道为什么，可能就是因为这是一个晴朗的天气。在加拿大，晴朗的天气似乎是一种奢侈。或许也可能是想走走。毕竟，老人们常说，饭后百步走，活到九十九嘛。
How to configure OwnCloud on a LNMP (Linux + Niginx + MySQL + PHP-FPM) stack?
Recently, I have got tired with the little space that Dropbox has and decided to explore my own options, a few potential candidates came up, SparkleShare was the first one to consider, except somehow I got the impression that the product is still pretty much in a beta stage and is relatively new and unstable. …
Fixed: W3 Total Cache Crashed My WordPress!
In the previous post, I have mentioned briefly about speed up your self-hosted WordPress blog by hard-code some of the PHP queries. Unfortunately as soon as that is done, my little blog start to go crazy: everything was squeezed at the left part of the screen, making the blog so ugly that even I have …
WordPress: Speed Up!
I know I have not been updating this blog as actively as I should, obviously an excuse would be “I have been rather busy”, which is almost an universal excuse, another reason for it was because ZAYBlog loads so slowly. How slow? If in case you have been to ZAYBlog for the past two days, …
How to use Windows Live Writer behind proxy?
I was attempted to set up Windows Live Writer for a friend recently, however he is behind a proxy using Windows authentication, therefore, we were able to run the downloader, Windows Live Writer was unable to connect to the blog and was therefore, we had this error message while trying to set up the blog …
New day, new look
So I know I have been lazy in writing stuff to this blog (The reason I gave myself is there is nothing to write). However, at least I decided to change the look for the site after having the same look for god-knows how long. How does the new look sounds like? Good? Bad? Terrible? …
The days when we used to write loooong emails…
Yesterday, I came across this interesting article on TechCrunch where the author discussed the idea of gmail-lite, where we would write pretty much like Twitter-style emails. Frankly speaking, I can understand the rationale of people writing short emails. After all, a not-so-busy person like me receives about, on average, perhaps 50 emails from work and …