Just a breaking news yall. My beloved, the gang at WordPress, new creations and releases.

WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one.

Download WordPress MU

bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, Akismet spam protection, AJAX interaction, but the team focused the most on creating something fast and light. bbPress can power a forum with hundreds of thousands of posts with just a fraction of the load as WordPress.

Download bbPress

I don’t think I can check out WordPress MU…may be later. bbPress is interesting though, may be install it locally and check it out. You guys can test out too and let me know how it go.

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This is just so much eye attracting design. Incredibly beautiful in the use of color as well as the graphics and texture. I just love that peacock…phoenix, phoenix…peacock, ok phoenix and those magnificent rainbow and flowers.

I see not a single thing wrong with the whole site design. I’m not considering the loading speed for that thick background effect but it seems quite all right.

N.Design Studio – Design and Blog

I love those main navigation tabs with little icons in it. I love the hover effects of the tabs and the image link hovers. I love the choice of that particular font style and the choice of black header and footer to have a sense of closing or the edges to the site. The little links such as “Archive, Links, Contact..” at the header and “Sitemap, Css, Xhtml, Rss” at the footer are just so cute to resist.

Although the heavy use of very colorful graphics, the main company logo is still distinguishable. And I just love the fact that it is a valid XHTML site. This is one serious design work and I’d give a great respect to the designer for the site as well as his beautiful portfolio. Definitely going to attract major clients.

Love it! Cheers.

I’m gonna roll it just for the love of its design.
Check out his old flash version as well.

I’m not a freelancer, well not yet but like to be in the future, but these 7 points by Successful Andy Budd are very worth taking note of whether you are a freelancer or not.

#1. Love what you do
To be a successful freelancer, you need to have a passion for what you do…

I love what I do. Yes, I really do. I never thought I’ll be doing what I’m doing when I was in high school as I didn’t even like looking at the computers. But once I start digging into this profession, I beginning to like it and yes I’m loving what I do.

I do have a passion. Right now I have a deep passion to eat one good “Kyar-San-Chat”. hehe Ok sorry, just a bit hungry at the moment.

#2. Never stop learning
Every day new ideas or techniques are discovered and sometimes it’s hard to keep pace…the best web designers are endlessly inquisitive and always want to keep abreast of the latest trends and technologies…

Sometimes, I wonder what will be like when I don’t want to learn anymore. IT and Computer profession is very different from any others. IT industry is very rapid and fast growing, every minute, everyday. If you cannot keep up with the speed you are rather useless in a few months time. Having a degree in IT field is nothing like having a degree in other fields like Accounting, Medicine, Nurseing. In those, you can make use of what you learn in school for a long time, unless ofcos, there is a new disease to cure/study or a new program is introduced to calculate accounts.

In IT, a degree is just a piece of paper to frame and is rather useless if you cannot keep up/don’t know what it’s like out there in the real world. Sometimes, it’s so tiring to find out how far behind you are with the latest technology. While you’re learning one thing and not even specialize on that yet, many other new things pop up and the thing you learning becomes usless. I wonder many times, how do I even keep up with this rate. But you know what, the most important thing is as long as you have a passion for learning new thing, you’ll be just fine.

#3. Specialise
Some skills are more in demand than others, but if you’re the top of your field in a particular language or skill, you’ll always be in demand.

Very true, as long as you’re the best in one field, you’re sure to make a living out of it. Lets’ see what I’m specialise at…

#4. Get a killer portfolio
The best way to do this is to contact friends and family and offer to build them a website. I’m not suggesting you do this for FREE as this is potentially damaging to the industry and can also leave you in the difficult situation where your work isn’t valued….create your own personal project or sandbox where you can demonstrate your ideas. I’ve hired freelancers in the past based solely on the basis of their personal work…

This is something I lack. I don’t have any portfolio of my own. Well, you can’t show off what you done for your company since it might be somewhat illegal? or they might not want you to since you are working under their terms and conditions. But if you are to be freelancer then you seriously need your own portfolio. Atleast have a website/blog of your own where you publish your latest informative muses, so people know you are still alive and up-to-date.

Lets’ see…I wanna build up my portfolio, who wanna hire me? Mom? Dad? Bro?? No free job, KFC would do.

#5. Network like crazy
As the old saying goes, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. This couldn’t be more true as a freelance web designer. The best way to get work is to use your contacts and network like crazy.

I’m really bad with networking. Actully I suck at it. I don’t know, I’m just not a people kind of person. I seriously need to work on this skill. Yes, a good point to note.

#6. Manage your time
As well as doing the work you get paid for, you also need to market yourself, manage your projects, do your accounts and everything else that’s involved in running a small business…One of the benefits of being a freelancer is being your own boss, so make sure you’re both strict and fair…

Freelancing is flexable yet very dangerous if your time management skills are weak. The article explains it well, so better read on it.

#7. Build your reputation
One of the best ways of becoming a successful freelancer is to become the person people want to do business with. You can also build your reputation by sharing your experiences and knowledge through writing articles, blogging and speaking at local events. By building your reputation as an expert, people will be happy using your services and recommending you to others. Blogging is a particularly good way of doing this and is something I highly recommend.

Whoa! In this case, I’m on the right track (kind of). I just build up my reputation as a jack-ass a few days ago. Hey still, I’m building up my reputation rite? ha` ha`. Yep, it’s way better to check out your blog to determine your personalities + many other things than checking your beautiful resume. You blog talks about who you really are and has a greater impact on people than reading a few pages of your resume.

I have a blog, I rock! I have a reputation, I kick arse!
Now, am I a potential successful freelancer or am I a potential successful freelancer?!? (wink*)
Read the article in detail here. Very resourceful and great notes there. Must read!

Oh this is…soooo gross! I’m lost for word, how can someone think up like that. I must admit her excellent imagination though. What a magnificent Halloween dishes she created. If you care to try out…I doubt it. May be a finger. Haha.

Check out the recipes.

“Finger” Cookies

makes ~ 5 dozen
Yield: 5 dozen

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup whole blanched almonds
raspberry jelly

In bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Stir dry ingredients together, then add to wet and stir thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.

Read detail recipe here.

Panna Cotta (brain style) with Pomegranite Sauce

1 cup milk
5 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
4 cups heavy cream
1 cup + 1 Tb sugar, divided
pinch salt
2 Tablespoons vanilla
8 oz. pomegranite juice
1/4 cup cornstarch

Place milk in a small bowl and sprinkle gelatin over the top. Stir and let sit for about five minutes so the gelatin can rehydrate a bit.

Combine cream and sugar in a pan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla and salt. Add the gelatin mixture and stir again until combined. Pour into (brain) mold, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight or until mixture is completely set.

To unmold, gently tilt mold so sides of the panna cotta pull away a bit, then place on platter or plate. You can also dip the bottom of the mold into warm water to help in unmolding.

Read detail recipe here.

Via: BoingBoing | Forum Egullet

မာန မ်ဥ္းၿပိဳင္မ်ား

မင္းနဲ႔ငါ အယူအဆေတြ ကြာျခားလို႔၊ အတၱ နဲ႔ မာနမ်ား ၾကားမွာ
စုန္ကာ ဆန္ကာ၊ လူးလာ ကူးခပ္။
ျမဳပ္လုျမဳပ္ဆဲ အၾကပ္မိေနတဲ့၊ ႏွလံုးသား တစ္စံုကေတာ့
ေအာ္ၿငီးလွပါၿပီ။

တိတ္ဆိတ္ျခင္းရဲ့ ေနာက္ကြယ္က၊ ရုန္းထြက္ခြင့္ေတာင္းေနတဲ့
စကားလံုးမ်ားစြာကို၊ ငါတို႔ မာန မ်ဥ္းၿပိဳင္မ်ားနဲ႔၊
သူႏိုင္ ကိုယ္ႏိုင္၊ အၿပိဳင္စည္းတားရင္း၊ ေရစုန္ေမွ်ာ လိုက္ၾကတယ္။

ေန႔သစ္ တစ္ခုရဲ့ မနက္ခင္းမွာ၊ အတၱ နဲ႔ မာနမ်ား ကင္းၿပီး
အျဖဴေရာင္ ႏွလံုးသား တစ္စံုနဲ႔
အသစ္ ျပန္စခြင့္ ရခဲ့ရင္ေတာ့ …

Tea Articles: Stand Up For Your Rights!

Interesting featured article by Eric Meyer at ThinkVitamin.

“So you want to be a farmer, eh? Farming ain’t easy, boy, but it’s honest work and it puts food on the table. How much do you know about it?”

“Not much, but I’d like to get started right away.”

“I like your attitude, boy! Ever had a garden?”

“No. Never really wanted one.”

“Hm. Well, maybe I could start you plantin’ some corn. That ain’t too hard, and it’s good for learnin’ how to put the seeds in right, plus I could take the time to cover some of the basics about weather signs.”

“What are you talking about? I don’t want to plant seeds or hear about the weather, of all things. I want to be a farmer.”

“You all there in the head, boy? How else do you plan to grow food, if you don’t plant seeds and keep the fields watered and fertilized? How do you expect to have your crops make it without knowin’ about the weather?”

“Why would I want to dig in the dirt or listen to boring lectures about meteorology, when all I want is to be a farmer?”

Tea Thoughts: Moth + Flame = Flying Sparkler (Via: Jachin Gtalk Status)
I’m thinking what exactly that mean…

Tea Translator: Bable Fish Translation (Via: Jachin to translate all those German, Spanish, Latin, French Gtalk Status craziness going on with the office gang)

Tea Star: “Think with your head not your heart, and refuse to be drawn in to the negativity of others. There is idealistic energy around today and you will be easily lured situations that do not concern you.” via: Fijitimes Horoscope

Tea Special News: Diwali sweets and early half day break for Diwali weekend.

Tea Disappointment: I didn’t win anything from Diwali special draw. hehehe.

Tea Download: Internet Explorer 7 for window XP.

Tea-pingVoid: hehehe

Via: GapingVoid

OK! Back to work!

LOL this is one cool search engine that I have never seen before. Very interactive indeed, plus sissy!! LOL

Just check out yall. I bet you’ll love it…well the interface for sure. hahaha.

Ms. Dewey Search Engine

Oh that sissy lady is named “Janina Gavankar” (wink*)

Janina Gavankar, also known as Janina Ziona or simply Janina Z, is an American actress and musician of Indian and Dutch descent…..

…She is Ms. Dewey, in the interactive search engine MsDewey.com

Via: Wiki

Thanks Zatlite for the link.