Blog of ZAY
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
There was little surprise when I got the email from Yahoo! informing me that they will be closing MyBlogLog in a few months. I have been a Yahoo! fan for years, primarily because when I first started to learn and use Internet, Yahoo! was the only (the most efficient one at least) major search engine …
Just received this email from the host of the very blog that you are reading on: Hello – Sorry for the short notice, however we will be rebooting the server you are connected to tonight to apply a new version of our kernel tonight. During the reboot, your website will be unaccessible for up to …
Guess a picture here is better than a thousand words: Fortunately, Twitter has managed to keep update on the status. Time for more servers Twitter, you just have too many people using it!