Secret from a Knight’s Journal

Temasek Junior College 2008 YouTube Short Film

One of my ex-schoolmate, Bear, sent me an email to check out the following two YouTube sites. Honestly, that was really amazing!

Someone by the nick, temasekjc2008, uploaded two clips onto YouTube, featuring a local student-based directed film. According to the description, it was noted to be a comedic short film.

I believe it’ll be very interesting for ex-TJCians to watch them; just like myself.

Click below to access YouTube clips…

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Added and Upgraded a Few WordPress Plugins	Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 1 - Do Not Try It	Global Translator Plugin Installed	Multiple Language Plugin Not Working
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Added and Upgraded a Few WordPress Plugins

Secret from a Knight’s Journal currently has a few WordPress plugins installed, and since it is not quite resource intensive, I intended to add a couple more plugins to improve site functionality. Apart from this, some plugins have also being upgraded to the latest version.

Changes

So far so good. I’ll be keeping a lookout for more plugins. Anyway, those mentioned above are compatible with WordPress version 2.0.11.

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Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 1 - Do Not Try It

Just a piece of simple advice for all Internet Explorer users. Don’t ever attempt to upgrade Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 1, it is still currently in the utmost unstable and unfriendly mode.

It does not take long for me to find out that several things are broken within Windows XP, after installing IE 8. I guess one of the most obvious, and vital component, is the Windows Update feature. The link is completely useless as Microsoft itself does not even recognise the existence of their own product.

Other aspects of this poor release is the page rendering. In some websites, I noticed that the characters and images are overlapping each other. This, however, does not happen in IE 7 or Firefox 2.

This simply shows that there are a lot of issues to be resolved before IE 8 can make it firm foothold on the browser market.

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Global Translator Plugin Installed

All thanks to Nothing2Hide for developing this excellent WordPress plugin - WordPress Global Translator Plugin. Just when my previous language translation plugin failed, I am definitely delighted to have found this brilliant piece of work from the net.

Their latest release, version 0.9, works like a charm when first I first installed it. There are only 4 basic steps to do so (for non-widget users).

1. Download the plugin and unzip the content to the wordpress plugin directory, i.e. “/wp-content/plugins/“.
2. Activate the plugin in WordPress.
3. Go to “Options” tab in WordPress to “enable” the plugin.
4. Add the code to the sidebar.php, or anywhere you’d like the flags to appear on your site.

Honestly, it is a very straightforward procedure and it should not take more than 15 minutes to do everything.

Thank you, Nothing2Hide, for this wonderful plugin! For me, I highly recommend this plugin for the use on your website.

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Multiple Language Plugin Not Working

Not sure what has gone wrong with one of my WordPress plugin. If you do see the screen-shot on the right, it is an image capture of the Language Translation plugin located to the right of this blog.

It seems that Yahoo! Babel Fish has clamped down on language translation for online blogs. This has, inevitably, made translation quite difficult.

Now that this plugin is almost rendered useless to me, I might be seeking for new language translation plugin on the web. If any of you has sources, please share them with me.

I will greatly appreciate that!

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Spam Comments on the Rise

Akismet has got to be every WordPress, be it professional or amateur, users’ life Saviour. Think about how many spam comments go around every seconds. This is simply ridiculously incredible and unbelieveable!

Not to mention those bigger, professional blog sites; a small blogging space such as mine, is also prone to fall victim to spams. Honestly, if it was not for Akismet, webmasters, or specifically blog owners, will find it really tedious and time-consuming to keep removing redundant comments.

I can never give enough praise to Akismet that set the standard to track down spam comments so these can be filtered. Good work Akismet Team, once again!

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李佩芬 - 王昭君

This person has a fantastic vocal for stage performance. Simply impressive to listen to her sing the infamous song, 王昭君.

Below is a sample screen shot taken from YouTube.

Not everyone will appreciate this, but for me, this is a delight to listen to. She has been singing since age 9, and she is now (I assume) 19-year-old.

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