Monthly Archives: March 2007

Wordpress Permalink Hack

I don’t know much about Wordpress internal working and only know a little and does a little PHP programming. (I don’t like PHP, Python suits me better!)
What I want to achieve is to show my Sky Explorer user guide posts with a different template. When I type a number behind the permalink url, I notice [...]

Why adopting a growth mind-set is critical?

This follows as a comment on an article about Carol Dweck (a psychologist) and her research, Mind-set Research.
Adopting a growth mind-set

means you believe in continuously learning and improving.
It means if you fail in certain task, you won’t be discouraged by the setbacks, that you would continuously try to learn from the setbacks and [...]

Sorry Google

As I am searching for something on Google, Google throws up this interesting We are Sorry page!
I wonder what algorithm are they using to interpret that my query looks like an automated request from a computer virus or spyware. I don’t think they are using any timing checks since I am doing manual search! Hopefully, [...]

Advanced navigation

The advanced navigation gives you a quick way to find the file you are looking for in a long list by entering the 1st character of the filename. The current selection is changed to the next item that starts with the character you have entered, If the search reaches the bottom of the list, it [...]

2 keys input method

As its name implied, this is an input method that I devise for mobile phone using strictly 2 keys that combine to produce a character. I like my method more than the default phone input method, but the dictionary input method is obviously easier and faster than mine.
How is the method designed?
First, every possible character [...]

Sky Explorer Settings

The following settings can be set:

Email
SmtpHost
Timezone (eg. 8 )
Text enter mode
File exts-TextEditor(eg. py txt)
Images directory

The Email setting is used as the email sender, the from email address. The SmtpHost is the mail server from which the email is sent through.
A timezone of GMT +08:00 is entered as 8. There is a problem here as this [...]

Application menu and tagging

What is this? It is like the Nokia application menu, except that it is built within the program itself. The menus in the program is equivalent to the tags that you have tagged to an application.
Initially, none of the application is tagged, when you navigate to the Apps folder, you should see a list of [...]