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danny — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:47:56 +0000

It took a while but I have finally managed to convert my blog from Textpattern to WordPress. The conversion process was made easier by the import utility provided by WordPress, but a considerable amount of time and energy had to be expended to tidy up and reformat the content. Then there’s the usual search for [...]

Testing out Windows Live Writer with Textpattern

admin — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:13:00 +0000

I recently downloaded Windows Live Writer, which is still currently in beta. I was curious to know how Microsoft's free desktop blogging application compares to w.bloggar, the popular free weblog client by

Testing out Google Video with a short clip of baby Daniel

admin — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:50:00 +0000

The video clip is hosted by Google Video and can be accessed via the Acrobat Flash applet embedded below: Just click on the “play” button to run the clip. It is only a short video (one minute length), showing Daniel throwing his tantrum.

Custom meta tags in Textpattern

admin — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:50:41 +0000

Out of the box Textpattern does not provide the meta “description” tag for each article. Although there’s a keywords field available for each article under the “Advanced Options” link on the “write” page, the keywords tag is not included in the default template. I wanted to implement custom meta tags such as description and keywords [...]

Warren’s Playpen on Google Search

admin — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:42:00 +0000

Warren’s Playpen is a website which I set up a few months ago for my son. Warren loves to scribble, so I thought I would encourage him by setting up a personal website to showcase his doodles. Recently I tried to do a search on Google using the term “Warren Tam” and I was presently [...]