August 2007 Archives

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The Wang has mostly been adjusting to the new work habits and some of the more minute details about exploring a new city. Still the Wang is keeping busy with fun stuff like classes at the city college and finding new tabletop gaming groups. (So if u know anyone in SF plz contact the Wang.) But recently the long time MMO of choice, World of Warcraft became a chore and rather mundane. Hardcore Casual comments about how MMOs aren't about selling 500,000 copies rather, selling 100,000 copies and keeping the user for 2-3 yrs. Clearly WoW is successful in this. But it is done so well that WoW seems to have very little spirit or enjoyment in it. Its rather blend in its efficiency to be good. Its like seeing a super hawt model in Beverly Hillz. U know she's great to look at, hangs out well, clearly entertains u and is not crazy, but when u take her home and u two just hang out on Sundays... nothing happens. In the long run there's no real love there, just a whole lot of really good non-badness.

So the Wang is trying out all these new MT4 plugins and what not. Still working on the holy grail of widget/plugins, some sort of a Flickr widget. But until thats worked out, the Wang is testing some old stuff.

It seems that bunch of blogging tools have gotten together and release their APIs to each other and thus allowing plugins to cross post. This is one of them.

So for those who never would see a post from me on this specific blogging tool... here comes the cross posts.

So, the Wang's been busy trying to upgrade this sad lonely excuse of a blog. Ever since last week, a few minor details involving MySQL to Movabletype stupidities has  seriously intensified the Wang hatred of not just simply using blogger or some other hosted blog site. Still the Wang pushed through and eventually got to the point now where all the entries are nicely back. (Though the Wang can't seem to get the dynamic publishing bit of the new system to work... ) Still the blog works and looks prettier. Mean while the Wang will have to focus on hard hitting contents to bring the blog back to posting glory.

The Wang can never claim to be a good blogger but it is still nostalgic and nice to read some of the old posts. Even if it means nothing to u the gentle readers. But still personally, it is always cool to dig up an random archive and just go, "wow i remember that!"

Back to new system complaints...

So the because of the export/import tactic that the Wang finally used to get the Blog to work again, Comments r completely F**ked up from HaloScan. So they r not being used right now... which also means the Wang lost like 2 ish yrs of comments from HaloScan. Oh its still there, just not linked correctly to the correct entry. And due to the new numbering, I'll get comments for like the next 100 posts i put up, from posts from before. Talk about entry identity crisis. Still since the new MT4.0 system has a nice LJ authentication feature, and most of the Wang's friends use LJ, the Wang figure thats not a bad way to swing it... So i'm going to give the MT commen t system a try and see how it goes. Or more so, how well it holds up against spams. (the reason the Wang went with haloScan before was due to the massive Spaming that was happening with the MT comment from 3.0.

And just to leave u off with something prettier than just words... enjoy this hawt and simple photo of Naomi Watts: