I've Moved

Hi guys, this is maybe the last post of mine on blogger. I've moved to wordpress with a new domain, http://phalkunz.com. See you all there!
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I'm back

Sorry for the disappearance. I've been busy for the last few weeks. It's not that I couldn't come online- I was just not in the mood for writing in my blog until some friends pushed me to come back again (it's all good). Well, what's new you ask? There are just a few things. First one is I've been busy. Why do I keep telling everyone that I've been busy? Hmm.. oh yeah because I just have been! The second thing is there was a rumor saying my dad passed away of heart attack. Who made this up and for what reason? I don't know but that was so ridiculous! Thirdly, one of my tooth went bad so I had to go to a dentist and the dentist ended up performing a root canal that cost me almost a grand. Gosh, I could have saved that money for a new laptop. Second last, I have been so attracted to the new iMac. I'm so in love with it. I think I'm gonna get one when I can afford it even though I wanna switch to Linux, to be specific, Ubuntu. Lastly, I'm gonna move to a new home. Don't get it wrong ok I don't mean a physical one. Actually, I'm just gonna to move to wordpress so hope i can get my wordpress up and running soon.

Alrighty, that's about it for now. Thanks for continuing to check my blog :)
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Creativity Quote

Creativity and ideas don't come on command, they seem to spring up when we least expect it.

by Mattias seen on ALA (A List Apart)
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Metal Mushroom

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Menu Icons

My old blog template was messed up. In fact, it was quite heavy to load as some people complained so I thought I better start again with this template and try to keep it as light and simple as possible. I've made a few changes to the new template now and I'll do more later coz I'm so not free at the moment. In addition, I've also drawn 3 menu icons as you can see below.



If you happen to like the icons, feel free to download and use them. if you want Photoshop versions of these icons, let me know.
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A Bit of Steve Jobs and Apple History

What an inspirational speech


Short yet good documentary about Apple
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Internet Explorer is discriminating?

For some stupid reason, IE doesn't render my blog at all. Not only does it not show my page correctly, it doesn't even show my blog at all. Oh come on IE, at least show me something so I can track the bug and fix it, it can't be that bad. I've tested my blog with firefox 2 (mac and windows version), Opera 9, and Safari and they all work fine except that stupid IE. I know most of the viewers use IE so for now I've just changed my template temporarily. Why don't people switch to other browsers? When IE comes with Windows, it doesn't mean it's the best application and you have to use it. Don't be afraid of change. I don't need to say why you should switch to some other web browser besides IE because this site (http://browsehappy.com/) explains it all.


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Try Out My Cooking

I never thought I would enjoy cooking this much but it's so much fun when I can experiment with something new and it turns out good (or it fails sometimes but it doesn't matter much).
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Auckland City

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Censored

Original photo.
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Messy

I realized that I haven't taken any photos with my dslr for like a month now. Here's a photo taken with my dslr after a long time.

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Clean Mighty Mouse's Scroll Ball

I love mighty mouse for the fact that it's simplistically beautiful and highly functional. But i guess there's no such thing as perfect. The drawback of mighty mouse is the scroll ball traps dirt and grease easily and after sometime it doesn't work at all when you scroll downward. I was trying to clean the dirt and stuff that was trapped inside the mouse by following official instruction from Apple but it didn't work at all. I've googled and found out that many people have the same problem. Some said the official instruction worked, some took a step further by applying alcohol to the ball, and other went to the extreme by disassembling it. Well, I've tried them all except the last option. I left it unused for months now and thought well I don't do anything about it I won't be able to use it anyways so I rather get it fixed or chuck it in the bin. I was in dilemma because if I was to take it apart then it had to break it because it has a ring that keep top part and second part of the mouse together and Apple attaches the ring to the mouse by gluing. If it used clips or things like that I would have done it ages ago. Yeah, finally it disassembled it and found out there were big chunks of dirt and lint on the wheels driven by the scroll ball and I was amazed by the simplicity of the design and yet it works like magic. But i had to glued them back together and it is the worst thing :( Ok, I have a question. Why don't they use clips (I wouldn't want screws though) instead of glue? Or do they encourage us to buy a new one every now and then?

The top part, the bottom part and the ring

The scroll ball compartment (there are 4 other wheels in it)

The wheels attached the compartment

The wheels driven by the scroll ball

Put them back after cleaning

It works now :)

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Baby Snail

I just picked this lil' guy (see another photo with my fingers so you can tell how small it is) from downstairs for a photo shoot.
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Starry Starry Night

I was fixing my pc and suddenly the electricity was out. I thought I must have done something wrong with the power plug but then I looked out the window everywhere is so dark. The electricity was cut off again (by again I mean this is not the first time. ) but i don't know it was just this area (northcote) or the whole North Shore city. Then I walked out of the apartment and looked up the sky and I could see the stars so clearly. So I thought it would be a good time to shoot the sky hehe. Well, I did. I swapped my camera lens to 50mm 1.8f because of all my lenses this one is the fastest one (means can take more light thus works well in low light condition), set the shutter speed to 30 sec, put the camera to self-timer mode and put the camera face up on the bench (I can't afford a tripod yet). It didn't turn out nice after all :(

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Green On Red

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Insectz

Click the image to view larger.
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Daily Word On Desktop

Mac + GeekTool + www.urbandictionary.com + ruby
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Sparkling Earrings

This another photo taken with my studio.
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Page Icon (PixelArt)

I've just drawn a blog icon with Pixen. Finally, pixelart has a place in my blog.
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Get 'Em Analyzed

Recently, Google's just introduced a new web-based tool called Analytics. What does it do? It collects statistic data about your web site and that statistic tells you things like how many hits your site's got, how many distinct visitors, where they are from, how they get to your site? what operator systems they're working on, what web browsers they use, what connection speeds they have, what their screen resolutions are, and many many more. What do you get out of this information anyways? Well, from that information you can design your site accordingly. For example, it helps you to decide on the width of your web pages by reading collected information on screen resolution. If the majority of the visitors use 1024x640 resolution, then design your site best for that resolution. To conclude, it is a great tool and again it is FREE.
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