Just done upgrading mayvelous with the latest WordPress 2.7
Love the admin so much; this is posted with QuickPress. Got DB error while upgrading and I stupidly forgot to save the error. I did ctrl+C but wasn’t copied well and lost the error message. All plugins seem to be working except FlickrRSS plugin; I don’t see the photos anymore. I just looked through quickly and very satisfy with the new admin look.
I notice it’s quite slow compare to previous version or may be my net is just slow?
I think it’s too long for QuickPress post already, so am stopping now. I’ll be back soon as my two weeks holiday starts from next week and hope to blog again.

Updated: 12/12/08
I had a problem with Myanmar unicode posts which turned into weird characters and ??? after the upgrade. Seem like my DB Collation and Character encoding changed into latin1_swedish_ci while upgrading the DB.

I fixed it using this plugin: g30rg – UTF-8 Database Converter.
The plugin says it’s not supported for this version of wordpress but I got no choice. I just close my eyes and convert away. Luckily, the conversion went fine and all my Myanmar posts back to normal.

One more weird thing after the conversion was that, this post (posted last nite with QuickPress) got cut off and only the first line was there. I don’t know how it happened, I checked the file versions but all got cut off too. Luckly (again) I was able to retrieve the content back from my feed and here I am updating the post.

Thanks so much Ma Nay Nay for informing me about the problem last night.

How sweet! Now you don’t even need Gtalk desktop installer for voice chat, both voice and video are available on browser based Gmail chat. All you have to do is, grab this plugin and start rolling. Well ofcos’ you need a webcam.

Just click on the new “Video & more” menu in a Gmail chat window and select “Start video chat” or “Start voice chat.” You can switch to a full screen view or pop out the chat window and change the size and positioning as you wish. Of course, not everyone has a webcam, but even if you don’t, you can still have voice conversations alongside your email and regular chat.

Watch the demo video and read detail here. I haven’t tried it yet. I’ll give it a shot once I get home. Not too excited about video but voice on gmail is good enough for me. That would reduce the pain of having to install a desktop program just for voice chat.
Thanks google team for this new feature.

Got this link via N3 post, “Turn your name into a face“, and thought I’m gonna try it as well. Quite amusing how those faces turn out from your name.

Here is the true face behind “May Hnin Phyu“.

Oh lord, did I just see a beard? The mouth and the hair look quite similar but I don’t have a beard for sure. Read the rest of this entry »

The very first time I listened to Korean pop songs (apart from those come in dramas) was a few years back, when my sister brought a CD, “BoA No.1“, from her Taiwanese classmate. Her friend recommended that she listens to the CD since it’s a hit and sure to like it.

The CD was neatly packed with a lyric booklet in which beautiful photos of BoA against each song. I remember, I drew 2 of her photos from the booklet. Oh, did I mention I drew quite well back in my early teen days (I sounded like a Granny now)?; just simple pencil sketches that is. I have a habit of drawing beautiful pictures to make them ugly, especially portrait faces, from the Magazines. Anyway, I remember BoA cos’ her name is very easy to remember compare to other Korean names which I can’t even pronounce. I noted that she sings well and has a nice vocal. I remember her as a young, talented teen who likes Read the rest of this entry »

I came across this “C# Yellow Book” by Rob Miles, MVP and a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University of Hull, and thought of sharing.

I think this would be good introductory reading for those of us learning C#

The C# Book is used by the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hull as the basis of the First Year programming course.

Download: Rob Miles CSharp Yellow Book 2008.pdf(1.4M)

I rolled his blog also; he posts pop quizzes every now and then.

Just spreading this wonderful opportunity to all those travel bloggers who like to visit Indonesia and participate in this event. Early this year, I went to Bali for similar event; I had a great time there, met lots of people and learn new things. I wish I could go again, but I doubt it since I’m not really a travel blogger. Anyhow…the following is an abstract from the GV email I got, read on for detail info as well:

Indonesian Bloggers are having the 2nd national gathering next month on the November 22nd, last year we managed to get 500 bloggers from all over Indonesia to come.

This year hopefully we can get up to 1000 bloggers to attend the whole day event. The theme for this year is blogging for society.

Leading to that, as a part of the program to promote Indonesia tourism, supported by Indonesian Ministry of Cultural and Tourism, we would like to invite several international bloggers from any country to come and have a trip to three cities (Bali, Jogjakarta, Jakarta) in Indonesia leading to the event.

We are looking for bloggers (travel bloggers) that can post their experience, photos, people they meet, basically blogging about Indonesia and Indonesian people, and join the event.

The period for this trip is between Nov 17 – Nov 22 2009 and this is the itinerary:

1. Denpasar, Bali (Mon, Nov 17 – Tue, Nov 18)
2. Jogjakarta (Wed, Nov 19 – Thu, Nov 20)
3. Jakarta (Fri, Nov 21 – Sat, Nov 22)

All expense will be covered, including flight ticket from your country to Indonesia and back.

And read more about the event in detail below. Their site is fully in Indonesian language but this is from email attachment and it’s in English, so dumping it directly here.

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I was trying to deploy a .NET 2.0 application using ClickOnce Deployment the other day.
I had all the IIS settings configured and folder paths entered correctly.
When I clicked ‘Publish Now’, I got an error message that made me wonder if I needed to reinstall Visual Studio.

Cannot publish because a project failed to build.
Could not find required file ’setup.bin’ in ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Engine’.

My first reaction was oh damn, I don’t want to reinstall whatever it is that’s broken.
My second smarter reaction was to google the error
Found this post on MSDN forums.

Basically, it was AVG Antivirus 8.0 that incorrectly identified and quarantined a required file as a Trojan.
AVG Free marked the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Engine\setup.bin as a Trojan horse BackDoor.VB.DIY

Simply select the file and click the ‘Restore’ button from AVG’s Virus Vault. (So glad I havn’t been emptying my vault!)

Once that little error was corrected, it was a simple matter to click ‘Publish Now’ again and I was happily on my way to my first ever ClickOnce Deployment!
I’m glad it wasn’t a serious problem requiring reinstalls.

Some days, I wonder if I want to keep an antivirus program running on my computer.
I don’t need much protection as I am careful in my mail box and I rarely visit websites out of google’s domain.
Google Reader gets me everything I want to read anyway.
Scratch that thought I lend my flash drive out to other people sometimes so it wouldn’t be a good idea to have no protection.
I trust myself but you just can’t trust people’s machines.