webhop URL

I got myself a redirectional or webhop url and which is easier to remember and quite meaningful one too..

Means you can access my blog thru this url http://zz85.is.dreaming.org/

IE users, you can add me to favorites here

Firefox/Mozilla users, see the RSS icon on the bottom right? LiveBookmark Use this to add a Live Bookmark for my Site.

Happy day

Yesterday must be one my happiest day (although there’s sadness too) in life. I going to be selfish and maybe will only tell you the details in person.

Today lots of dust is flying around my home because lots of drilling is taking place for an upgrade to my sisters’ room.

Its about 9 more days before I leaving to stay at a “deserted” island in Singapore for a while. Expect to get less blogging from me.

Features for next Photozip releases.

Thanks for all those who gave feedback about the plugin. (Some even use russian but thanks too)

Planned features for next releases.

a) styles (border and shadow) support
b) insertation customisation (links, size, style)
c) admin options
d) spg(/Gallery) integration
i) better thumbnailing
ii) integrated gallery (wif cool access keys)
iii) panorama scripts
iv) xml info (+comments)
v) + exif info
– long into the future maybe

e) php unzip
f) single image uploading
g) gallery managment
h) photo editing

Collapsible, Rearrangeable Sidebar

Previously I found a few scripts which could use for the collapsible items in the sidebar.

However, this time I tried brothercake’s dbx dhtml script, turned it into a plugin and decide to use this.
Read more about the plugin
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Try "minimising", "maximising" the boxes in my sidebar (on the left) and you can drag it up and down to rearrange the order.

2 more ideas.

1. If expanding the box would have the effect like "More Info", sliding down like a window bind.
2. Having a script (perhaps under admin options) entering codes for different sidebar items into the database, and html codes can be generated for the sidebar.

Test Exhibit

Failed inserting and displaying. Although Managment is not bad (upload,delete, rotate, thumb)… asy version had a bad error so i used 1.1d. Seems the error is with the database.

Now trying PhotoPress…

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Not bad..

Lazybrowser… Nothing

IImage Browser…
Onclick not working, images not showing

Pic Glue..
TOo much trouble

What I need.
1) Batch Uploads
2) Thumbnails (small/mid)
3) Batch insert into post.
What I can do
a) found a plugin which does that… failed
b) modify plugins – i) modify photopress ii)modify fckeditors plugin
c) write plugin

Blog Make Over

I will be attempting a do makeover for this blog, perhaps over the next few days.

Considerations over doing a mod of some themes.

possibles:

  1. Default – Kubrick
  2. Ideas from Connections
  3. Some nice style from Neptune
  4. Very likely using rdc* theme
  5. Pool is nice
  6. Slashdot is nerdy 8-|
  7. Travelogue gives a nice feeling
  8. White As Milk could be a nice starting point
  9. hmm…

Whose Online (fixes), and intersting Stats

I kinda like McMike’s Who is Online plugin.
http://www.mcmike.nl/english/?p=16

Its really small and simple, however there needs some (maybe small) fixes, so a little poke into the code. Its quite fun because the variables are named in Dutch which however is still programming and to a extend I should be able to understand it.

Here’s the link to the modified plugin.
http://www.lab4games.net/zz85/blog/wp-content/wieonline.phps

Then to remind me, I found wp-shortstat  about 4 days ago and installed it.
http://jrm.cc/archives/blog/wp-shortstat/

Its really cool, but as I gave a comment, would be cool with stats of users too.

No matter what, here is some stats that interest and impress me.

Browsers:
Firefox 1.0 is top of my list (34%), followed by crawlers(spiders!?!) 21% then IE 16%

Referers:
Lots of them from google (and their localised domains), other blogs I visit  and ping sites.

Search strings:
This is very cute. I didnt know these would be what people use to come to here. eg. "kepo can", "ajax 554", "installation package debian knoppix feather".

Countries:
In Decending order,  SINGAPORE (SG), UNITED STATES (US), SPAIN (ES), UNITED KINGDOM (UK), GERMANY (DE), NEW ZEALAND (NZ), AUSTRALIA (AU) ,Indeterminable, CHINA (CN), JAPAN (JP), NETHERLANDS (NL),ITALY (IT), LEBANON (LB), SWEDEN (SE), CANADA (CA), HUNGARY (HU),EUROPEAN UNION (EU), BULGARIA (BG), QATAR (QA), ICELAND (I,S), FRANCE (FR),TURKEY (TR)    BELGIUM (BE),RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU),MALAYSIA (MY),ESTONIA (EE),GREECE (GR),EGYPT (EG),PORTUGAL (PT)    ,DENMARK (DK),LITHUANIA (LT)    ,TAIWAN (TW),AFGHANISTAN (AF).
Wow, I didnt know a little fly like me can get so much attention. (And a friend now in China even mentions this site get blocks there!?)

Languages:
Most of them relating to their countries listed above but here are some of the more interesting ones.
Latvian, Serbian, Korean, Turkish and the funny ones!? nl-NL, hu-hu, el-gr!

I sure other would have much more interesting stats, and its suprising so much without me publicise my blog (and many of my friends still dun know i have a blog i think)

And ya, here’s a installation guide and comparision for awstats and level10 hit counter (both quite nice, picks of the crops) and wrote sometime last week.
http://www.lab4games.net/zz85/blog/wp-content/awstats.txt

And come to think of it, my blog is going to be 1month old! I wonder how much is its lifespan.