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Site fixes0
chris lin posted in Site Updates on May 19th, 2008

Contact form and comments working. Didn't realize neither worked. I really should put some more time into my website, it's always neglected like the red headed step child.

Wordpress 2.5 is a nice change0
chris lin posted in Site Updates, Wordpress on March 30th, 2008

Oh man, for some reason I decided to check wordpress.org today and noticed they came out with 2.5. Since I have heard a lot of rave about it and saw that they redesigned the administrative panel, I decided to upgrade.

Boy, I am happy, best new feature I discovered is the gallery, no more need for gallery plugins or addons, this seems to integrate straight into wordpress. Now, I hope none of hacks/plugins are broken.

One thing I noticed as I am using the admin panel now, is I want to be able to change the categories so it is to the right of the text box like it was before. I have a large monitor and there is a lot of unused space to my right.

Tumblelogs0
chris lin posted in Site Updates on January 4th, 2008

I have been recently working on a converting this blog to a tumblelog (ex: projectionist) which is essentially a minimalist blog for random media and postings. I would use sites like tumblr.com but I want comments for some reason. So using wordpress as the backend, I am hacking up a theme to meet my needs, which is to have a normal blog, cut out of a lot of the unnecessary metadata and enable comments. Like a tumbleblog with more emphasize on the blog. And since I already begun work on it, all i can say is that having not messed around with css for 2+ yrs, it is hard as hell to remember how to do the simplest things. I had to look up how to do something simple like vertical align on text.

I am back4
chris lin posted in Site Updates on February 12th, 2006

Well, I am back after a long hiatus. After my host's hard drive crashed I thought everything was lost until I remember I had a cron job running everyday that made a backup of my databases everyday. So luckily for me, I didn't lose much. Stay tune for updates.

Also, for the people that linked me before, let me know if you have a new site cause I just cleaned out my links and deleted all the ones that didn't work.

I am so bored.5
chris lin posted in Personal, Photos, Site Updates on August 13th, 2005

Man, coming back from Taiwan after spending a month on this chinese cultural study program dubbed "loveboat," you figured I would be occupied for at least two weeks. Nope, after a few days I started getting bored. Although I uploaded the pictures of my trip (on bottom right, set it to date taken and ascending so you can see it in order) and have talked to all my friends and family about my trip, that only kept me occupied for the first week. So for the past weeks I have been back, I have been staying up late (3-4AM) reading Harry Potter (books 3-5), chatting with my loveboat friends online whom I miss so fucking much and hanging out with Norma, Sean and Roy.

Oh and cooking. Ever since I got back I have started cooking so since I like eating and it's fun to do. This doesn't constitute as "cooking" but Sean, Roy and I had Hot Dog Rollups which are essentially hot dog wrapped in bacon, wrapped in beef and cheese which is soaked in egg. Heart attack in a package. Here's some pictures.

Sean eating his.

Process of cooking it.

The hot dog rollups were SO DAMN GOOD even though I felt my heart stopping for a minute. I also made some Italian dishes throughout these two weeks and tonight I finished baking my first cake.

MmmmM, cheesecake with strawberry glaze, everything made from scratch.

Ya, life is back to normal. I do however felt the urge to do some designing so I might get back to the template I was working on before I left. here's a little peak at it.

Ya, I will be working on that for a bit. Don't even have a title for it yet.

On the eighth, I had my UCLA orientation and man I am going to be so screwed. I have to take out so much in loans since I don't want my parents helping me and then my class schedule is still being worked on since I practically got last pick but I did however get my apartment/townhouse. Two bedrooms and two 1/2 bathrooms and sharing it with only one person. Kickass.

School itself doesn't start until 9/29 so I think I will go back to LBCC and see if I can get a job for a month. I know my ex-boss pretty well and he thinks I am a good responsible guy so I think I can get a job. If not, this is going to be a long ass month.

I am back and gone6
chris lin posted in Personal, Site Updates on August 1st, 2005

I am back from Taiwan after spending a month there on this study program unofficially named loveboat.

I am also not going to be blogging as much anymore since I don't have the energy to do so. I will only blog when I update the site or when I have something big to announce.

A little update5
chris lin posted in Personal, School, Site Updates on June 22nd, 2005

Hey, I am sort of back from my hiatus. I will be leaving the country this Friday. First week will be touring Thailand and the whole month of July I will be in Taiwan. Don't worry, i will be updating my photo gallery and this blog as much as I can since I get internet access every once in a while.

As for my site updates, this site won't be modified in terms of looks and coding until I get back.

I think it’s that time7
chris lin posted in Personal, Site Updates on June 1st, 2005

…when I go on a short hiatus. I have no desire to do anything anymore. No desire to blog, no desire to code the layout I have done and this is while I have free time everyday. I'll be back, just add me to your feeds.

I haven’t posted for a while13
chris lin posted in Personal, School, Site Updates, Web design on May 26th, 2005

Man, you figured it would be kick ass. School is out, I got into a great school and I am getting a new car and laptop.

So WHY AM I SO BORED. I just sit home reading all day since no one wants to go out and usually when they do, it's at night. I am sick of not going to school since I usually stay at school the whole day talking with friends and going to class. I wish I was going back to school. So, in spite of my increasing boredom, I decided to do something about it. I started learning how to color in black and white photos and I do like my first results (seeing how it's such a beautiful photo also made it easier to look at :D).

Before

After

What do you think? I would like some honest opinions since I might be doing more so it's easier to correct my mistakes now then later. Also, I am getting back into taking care of my site. Currently, the gallery is down but there is a temporary placement here. Also, I will be working on a new layout — or rather, I have it all done, I am just cleaning it up and getting ready to splice it up and code. I think these few things will occupy my time until I get out of this house. That and reading the whole Harry Potter series. I started and finished the first one yesterday, I should be done with the series by the end of next week.