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Must.. finish… website… My eyes are drying out like mad! Didn’t ever think it would drag out so long..

Argh.. I feel like vomiting blood.. been trying to squeeze all the JS in the website into a miniscule size. Managed to shed some weight off the pageload by consolidating and gzipping the js from 470kB to 211kB. Now I’m trying to remove the default prototype libraries..

Was driving back with YX from Sandra’s place after spending a day there just now and we drove super super slow.. like 50kmph max, even on highways. I must say it was such a comfortable ride and such a change from the usual fly down the road feeling. It was so smooth and turns didn’t make you shift around the car.

My first real website job is coming along real slowly. Haha.. sigh. I think I have no aptitude for design and planning! I just love to execute but I hate to design and plan. It shall be out soon.. the whole lot of it, its turning out to be more difficult than expected because I’m just stuck without a good photo. Shall get one soon so I can carry on.

I owe so many photos and need to upload and email so much stuff to ppl. haha.. be patient! I shall have it up soon! One giant photodump.

Went to try some photoshop in preparation for cantata. Hmmm.. still not very nice. Something is missing.

Well, I’m quite fed up with the broken fuctionality of my own banged together franken-theme. I shall fall back on the beautiful K2 Varient, a 3 columned one. With archives and all.. but it only goes back 20++ pages. Looking to see why that happens. I can’t get ack to the very beginning of this blog. wonder why..

Just did a test run of Paint Dot Net and its pretty cool! Here’s a short overview after playing with it for a couple of minutes and the test image i made.

Can you do this with WordPress? =>

Lightbox 2 is up and running! My wordpress theme was not including the necessary javascript to run it properly. I think my page is super-humongo-gigantic now. Anyway, this plugin makes the picture expand over the page so I don’t really need to worry about having tiny pictures in the narrow column.

Test it out!

Went to drop by children’s camp today. It was nice seeing people again. Everyone seemed to be pretty sick and tired and lost voice etc.. Got to take some photos with Theron’s D80. Its a pretty good shoot! But I think its way too steep. Like… 3k for that? I think I’ll never be able to use such a powerful camera to its full potential. Here are some shots below.

I wish I could get my Gallery 2 up and running but its really difficult to go with the design of this site. I still have quite abit of editing to do. Right now I’m not happy with the navigation and sidebars. Also, the design is too narrow to display large pictures. I might do some kind of overlapping design, as if a photo has been placed on the current narrow column you are reading and overlaps it to the right and has a shadow/dog-ear/reflection, basically whatever skinny thing (filesize-wise) I can come up with. It’ll be interesting!

Did a quick search and found this and this and this. All cool Stuff.. Theres a very very good CSS site called CSSplay. Its just amazing! So many weird implementations and use of CSS. Very innovative.

I did a quick and dirty blog navigator for my own convenience. Its just a frame which displays the selected blog below it. Pretty simple but took me a while because I’m unfamiliar with html frames (so antiquated!!) I wanted to make a link list like the one on the left of my blog (that one’s for myself again too..) but then thought it’ll hard for people to navigate without names. I’m thinking after a long while I’ll remember exactly who’s name is on which button. Or even better, I’ll make it appear on the button. After my exams! Which end like.. next week.

I’m really bored and all but I believe the worst is truly over. Today’s paper was pretty bad but it couldn’t be worse than last saturday’s one.

As for children’s camp I hope they’re doing fine there. This is the first time I’m going to miss both youth and children’s camp (If I don’t defer my NS) I hope they’re all fine. Me and ZG thought of dropping by but he’s got a paper tomolo and everybody will be so super busy anyway.