Couldn’t resist Yahoo’s offer of getting my own domain name for only ~$5 a year, which is really cheap even if it’s US$$, because most Singapore hosts offer it for ~S$20. So, I clicked a few buttons and..voila…syamsul.net was born! Decided to get a cheap S$2.50 monthly plan from Focushub to go with it though, and am moving my blog and photo gallery to this account, leaving my coolsphere.org site with more space to host my school-related websites. Had a…
I was reading Red Sky in the Morning, and two lines in particular really intrigued me: “When babies are born in these old books, the mother’s poor daughter is always sent to the kitchens to boil gallons of water. It never explained what the water was for.†As it turns out, this is actually more than an old wives’ tale to get the men out of the way and messing up the intricate process of childbirthing 😉 I found this…
Ok, transferring my blog entries over to my new hosting service was not as straight-forward as transferring over my Moodle stuff. Someone really ought to write an easy-to-use plugin to backup/restore WordPress entries. Or if it exists..make it more easily available. Didn’t bother to go through the hassle with my Mambo site though – simply re-created the entire thing, especially since it’s still rather bare anyhow. Since I was re-doing stuff and my old photo gallery was sparse anyway, also…
My new Focushub hosted website became operational late last night, so I immediately went about transferring some of my sites. First up was ELVLE since I’ll be getting about 40 students to use it later in the morning. So far, the speed’s been really impressive – much faster than with . That means I won’t have to cancel and ask for a refund …hehe.. The cpanel login is unlike what I’m used to with differenthost or Globat. Not as user-friendly…
Urgh, Globat might be incredibly cheap, but the frequent unbearable sluggishness is really getting to me 🙁 This can be a problem if my site gets real slow at a time when I need to do online learning with my class. So I decided to spring for a different host i.e. Focushub, which offers local i.e. Singapore-based hosting. It might not be as cheap as say differenthost but users in local forums claim that it is more reliable. Ah well,…
Some really humorous video clips that were made for a BBC3 show called 2004: the Stupid version. I find the third clip especially funny 😀 but then I have been told that I have a warped sense of humour. Can’t say I quite “get” the first or fifth one though? 😕