Amour Chaleur

Right, so I took some time off and upgraded my WordPress to version 2.0. The interface has changed quite a bit but my dashboard loads so slowly that I didn’t wait for it to load at all. Is anyone having the same problem? Other pages works fine, it’s just the dashboard page. I can’t find anything wrong with it since it does loads but at a terribly slow speed. I’m in search of a ‘check spelling’ plugin that works. I need one badly, my spelling is totally pathetic. Anyway, the upgrade went smooth other than the plugins. I’ve got the smilies to work in the comments page, but I’m still trying to figure out how to add it back to my WordPress admin panel. The PHP EXEC didn’t work in the new version anyway so I switched to a new plugin for running PHP which is a lot better and effective, love it.

I really like how there’s a preview function for the post and pages which save me from having to save and view it on another page. The codings for the tutorials were also edited because the plugin I use to run PHP was rather good such that all the codes were executed into PHP functions too. But well, it’s fixed and running great. The threaded comments (also known as the ‘replying comments’ thing) was removed as I’ve no wish to edit the core files again, couldn’t find a nice good one though . I’ve set my mind on making a new layout but didn’t quite get what I’ve wanted so it’s still in progress.

Regarding the slight change in layout, Dayna is a lazy girl you know. Thus, I edited it slightly with a photo manipulation of a butterfly (hey, I did spent quite some time on it perfecting it ) It’s more autumn and spring feel now. So, this layout will stay for a very long time till maybe after my final examinations in March 2006.

Anyway, just thought someone might find this useful, if you want to upgrade your WordPress to the latest version and are not sure whether your current plugins will work, you may check the plugin compatibility list in the Codex. I heard it’s not the full list though but it’s pretty extensive so it might be of some help.

I’ve been making some changes and updates to the content, implemented a better search system to be used on the questions page. After surfing around, I found the smart archives more flexible thus changed that for the archives page. The site map was also redone (I’m sick of the manual one, thus using the more automatic approach now).

Merry Christmas everyone!!! So how was my Christmas eve? It was pretty good I guess, had some photos up in the previous entry, if you want the password, just email for it all right? I think I’m going to grow fat. I had lunch at Swenson’s yesterday, had tea break at TCC (had taken a photo of the yummy tea ), had a cheese sausage at Herren, had dinner at the hawker just beside the Esplanade. The satay was delicious, I swear I’m going back there again someday. There’s so many people there, we wanted for about 15 minutes before we got to share a table with someone.

The place was huge so I didn’t expect to bang into anyone I know but still coincidently Huaian saw me at Cineleisure. I went to watch King Kong yesterday, it was a long movie (>3 hours) but it was great I think. The part at the island was gross. I wondered how they filmed the animals and insects, I don’t have much appetite after watching that actually. My friend and I was being sprayed with foam while walking on Orchard Road by strangers. Suddenly there was foam in all directions, one thing I was quite disgusted was that I saw teenagers, secondary school students, spraying paint from those cans onto the trees and flowers. I was quite angry, that doesn’t shows how educated they are. They haven’t think about the consequences of the actions. My friend asked me to relax and pull me away before I did something to them :ooh:.

Some photos we took yesterday. We were having fun playing with the camera.

The huge Chirstmas Tree

Our tea break at TCC