.: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :.

I can't take all the negative comments any more..

All the horrible e-mails.

All the lies.

All the jealousy.

All the cliques.

All the haters.

It's just not worth it..

I Just

Any MORE

Better channel all my energy into something better right?

So I woke up this morning bleary eyed to check my sites/stats/etc as I normally do and I noticed quite a lot of users online..

This is normal though, sometimes I get hit by trackback spambots and have 50-60 users online, but this time, they were legitimate, and all looking at the same story - How to use RSS feeds on your Wordpress site.

Then I thought hmm...so I checked my sitemeter, and low and behold I had a whole load of referrals from digg!

Hmm so I checked the traffic for today, yup a massive spike!

And there I was, my face on the front page of digg and my story on my little blog

I've seen other people get 35,000 hits in a day from the digg effect, so hopefully the traffic a) will keep coming and b) won't crash the server Seems pretty steady so far.

Something like the Slashdot effect but I think not so extreme

Anyway here's the digg URL:

http://digg.com/programming/How_to_use_RSS_Feeds_on_your_Wordpress_Site

As it's quite long, I'll address all of the points here as it's easily for clarity.

First up I got 7/10 (Not bad), and the link is here Shaolin Tiger - Blog Review.

Very long columns on either side, which I deducted points for, because I dislike long blogrolls/lists/etc. There's a list of blogs he stalks on one side, and blogs he reads on the other. Why not just combine the two? Then there are Geek Links and General Links, which turns the blog into a semi-portal. There's even a whole list of links under 'Add Me'. Tell me honestly, ST, do you need all these links?

I guess I don't REALLY need them, but well they aren't particularly for anyone else, they are for me. The ones I stalk I visit EVERY day, without fail, if I have time I visit the rest. You could say it's a way of doing time management, and avoiding using bookmarks. My bookmarks are too full already, so they are hard to manage, so I just use links on my blog for most of the things I need. I could probably get rid of a few, but most of these sites I use on a daily basis.

I did try to organise them so all the useful stuff for readers is at the top (categories, navigation, search etc) and the rest is at the bottom, if people care to read it, and well mostly just for myself.

Scrolling down, I discover a large gap in the middle of the first post. Hmm, could be my resolution. I switched to 1024x768 and voila, gap gone.

This was probably a post that hadn't been spidered yet, as I recently switched blogging software, so the Adsense block didn't show up, that would account for the gap. Simply refreshing would have solved the problem.

Lots of interesting pictures pepper the posts, expecially the food-related ones. Some tech-educational ones which are useful for tech retards like yours truly. I wonder though, why these posts are categorised under 'General Nonsense' and don't have a category of their own.

They do have a category, it's just that I'm not used to Wordpress yet and sometimes I forget to click the categories, so they end up in the default category (General Nonsense). I switched them back the correct category yesterday (Internet & Tech)

I wanted to dig out more info about ST so I clicked on the 'Stupid Me Mes' category. Here's an interesting bit that I found. ST wants a girl who is not a midget nor fat (but not supermodel skinny), has breasts larger than a walnut, has good skin, doesn't have more hair than him (judging by his hairy chest proudly displayed in several pictures I'm assuming this is an easy one to fulfill) and doesn't have a mean/bitchy/slutty face. Well, you're certainly not picky! So what happens if you meet a voluptious girl with good skin, isn't hairy and doesn't have a slutty face, but she's stupider than sheep and is really really picky about food? (I know the meme only asked for physical traits, and I'm curious as to the non-physical aspects you look for).

Haha that's why I call Me Me's stupid, as I don't answer them seriously. If she's stupid and picky about food then it's a definate no-no. I love food, travel, outdoors, reading, computers, cars etc. If she's adverse to any of these things, then it's going to be a compability problem.

There's a whole variety of content in here - many of the posts are well-written although ST occasionally sinks to the level of writing nasty posts about people he hates. He seems to especially hate Xiaxue and slams her whenever the opportunity arises. I don't have time to go through the archives and see what sparked off this feeling of hatred, so ST, care to elaborate?

1) She's an Ugly Singaporean (Which entails a whole line of natural bad traits generally)
2) She bashed KL - Her Post (Which is now heavily edited) - My Reply
3) She's racist - The B word
4) She's ignorant - "Wow you speak good Malay, are you half Malay?"
5) She has an amazingly inflated self-worth - See any post.

I like reading this blog although some of the posts are mind-numbingly boring (food reviews bore me after a while), but the funny posts like 'Cultural Differences Explained' and the opinionated ones make up for those. I would definitely bookmark ST. I like blogs written with passion and this is certainly one of them!

I can't be inspired every day, just like the top 40 albums, I have filler songs too

My rating: 7/10 (would have been higher except for those annoyingly long blogrolls!)

Thanks much, and thanks for taking the time to review my humble place on the intrawebnet.

If anyone else is reading and has a question about me, or this blog, or what I do x, you can ask now. I'm in that kinda mood I guess

New look, new Wordpress 2.0, goodbye bBlog, you served me well..

Couldn't handle the spam any more though sorry. It was progressing pretty well, and I loved the Smarty templates, but well it wasn't going fast enough and as many hacks as I could put in, it was just too simplistic to get into shape.

Happy new year, let me know what you think of the new features/new banner/new layout.

I'm pretty proud of what I've done with it actually, took me about 48 hours solid, hardly slept..

Oh well, happy new year to me, it was starting to bug me. And people were complaining they were bored of the banner aswell, so two birds with one stone?

I've been experimenting with Wordpress for a while, and well 2.0 just came out so it was ideal opportunity to get dug in at the deep end.

Will probably blog about my experiences, had plenty of headaches getting it all set-up. Quite a lot of plugins that didn't work at all, a lot that just plain messed up, some I hacked to get to work.

The import from bBlog to Wordpress itself was a bit of a nightmare and took 3-4 hours of hacking to get it back in shape.

To all the guessers, I think Lionel got it pretty much right.

• I am NOT getting married.
• I am NOT getting engaged.
• I am NOT commiting to anything.

Nothing that serious really, just a shift to wordpress, few new features, new banner, less clutter, more blog!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SHAOLINTIGER.COM

Yes this is first proper post from wordpress, in the new st.com, best BLOG EVAR!

I got home from Brunei to find my mailbox jam packed full, one of the things inside was this.

Shame it's gonna take 4-6 weeks to clear and costs me 80 ringgit to bank in..

Might actually get the money by my birthday..

What's that shit about honestly.

4-6 weeks to clear, plus I gotta pay what exactly?

60 bucks courier charge
11 bucks processing fee
6 bucks government tax

Something like that anyway..

Not that bothered though as it's passive income, I don't claim to be a pro-blogger.

And no, don't worry it's not from this site, it's from some others

I think personal blogs loaded with ads suck, I have a few here but they were more to get out of the Google Sandbox than anything else, and there isn't even any on the front page at all.

I think this site has earnt about $50USD since February. Barely enough to cover the hosting.

Oh well, Merry Xmas to me

I bought a load of stuff today, so might blog about that tommorow.

As for now I'm off to Qbar to bug FA about dancing naked on a table.

LOLPLZ!

BTW Check out the comments from random flickr users on XiaXue and her LOVELY bikini puke I mean pic.. HERE.

Well I was bored today as usual..

And I'm heading back to KL afternoon *YAY*

So I thought I'd whack up a christmassy banner.

Actually what prompted me was I just put back the Christmas theme for Security Forums, so I felt like giving it a try here.

I couldn't get the front-page snow to work though, I guess it must be to do with the Smarty templates messing up the Java or something.

Oh well.

Merry Fscking Xmas!

And I'll see you at KY's party if you can make it, if I don't like you, don't come or I'll hang you upside down by your feet and dunk your head in his Koi Pond.

If you can't make it, BAD LUCK.

And it was pretty good really, thankfully

ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery

I just loved the title of this blog. I wasn't quite sure what to expect but the name definitely hooked me. The first entry I read made my mouth water. Things were looking up.

The blog is about the daily life of a "Brit in Malaysia". His entries are self-proclaimed "inane ramblings" that I'm sure everyone will find interesting. The author, ShaolinTiger, is a 20-something geek living in Malaysia working in Computer Security. He says that he is a "professional penetrator. His entries are very entertaining, witty and smart. He talks not only about the controversies involving his current home but also about the random light-hearted topics we all enjoy. He sprinkles a lot of pictures here and there which makes his website quite an eye-candy, in my opinion, anyway.

The layout is the generic one. Colors here and there, links on the side, archives underneath... the usual. However, this site does have a kick-ass banner. It's red and white and really cool.

Overall, I suggest to everyone to give it a visit. The entries are very interesting and, I have to say, quite gripping. Learn about the most recent news concerning our author's world and his takes on them. It's really not a wasted visit.

This site was reviewed on 2005-12-03 by jade smith. They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
jade smith felt that ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery deserved a rating of 4.75./5.00

Do you think this is a fair review?

If you were going to review my blog, what would you say?

Yeah, I've been torturing you all for a year now, amazing isn't it.

A few of the people reading since the start are still reading, I guess many aren't..

Lot's of new people are reading, I'm not sure why? But they are...perhaps you can find out here.

I started off with this post, which basically said I'd finally started a blog, something I'd been meaning to do for a while.

From then I've made many different posts, differnet styles, different subject, loads of pictures, loads of food, lots of travelling and trips. This is the 269th post I've made, not bad for 12 months. An average of around 1 every 2 days.

If you still don't know anything about me, you can read here.

If you want to find some of my better posts, you can find a list here.

I've ranted about many things, like the education system, Internet Exploder, Script Kiddies, Stupid Telekom, Bad Drivers, What is Art?, Malaysian Summons, Free tech support? and many many other things.

Hopefully I've acheived something in the past 12 months with my insignificant little space on the net, perhaps made you think, or made you feel like writing, or inspired you to argue with me, or perhaps inspired some people to blog, or cook some of my dishes, or take some nice pictures themself.

And of course I would be the record holder for most comments in one post...with the pink poodle fiasco (8 short of 600 comments).

Anyway, most of all thanks all for reading, some hypocrites say they don't blog for approval, or for other people, they just do it for themselves, but well to be honest, that's complete bullshit, everyone does it for approval, because they want people to read what they write, because they want people to LIKE what they write, if they didn't they would write it in notepad and keep it private somewhere, not publish it in the public zone known as teh intrawebnet.

I do blog for myself, and YOU, so I hope you appreciate it and enjoy it as much as I do

To another successful 12 months!

Cheers.

Yeah, I'm involved in the Blogathon too if you didn't know, it'll be starting at 9am EDT, so in Malaysia time here's the schedule:

9 p.m. - 1 a.m. - Paul
1 a.m. - 5 a.m. - Kenny
5 a.m. - 9 a.m. - Suanie
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. - ShaolinTiger
1 p.m. - 5 p.m. - Peter
5 p.m. - 9 p.m. - Minishorts

I just woke up, it's 1pm now and I'm in a hotel in a posh part of Manila, Phillipines, I finished work last night around midnight, I have little to no idea what I'm going to blog about..

Bloggers Are Morons Blogathon Site

I'll follow Kenny's lead in a way, and say if there's anything you want to ask me, anything you don't know about me, or any questions you have about any subject I might know the answer too feel free to ask in a comment below, and I'll try my best to blog about it.

PLEASE sign up and make a pledge here:

Bloggers Are Morons / Hospice-At-Home-Programme, Penang branch (under the Malaysia National Cancer Society)

Anything will make a difference, $1, $5 whatever you can afford to give will be appreciated.

We currently have 28 sponsors at the time I'm posting this.

To quote Peter Tan:

On August 6 this year, bloggers worldwide are banding together to blog every thirty minutes for twenty four hours straight. We are doing this all in the name of charity. I will be blogging with five others here for the Hospice-at-Home-Programme. The programme provides palliative care for patients with terminal cancer. One has to go through those last few months with someone who is dying from cancer to be able to fully understand why their work is so important. I have gone through it and I can only say that without the Hospice’s support, it would have been very difficult to manage those final days of someone I truly loved. When all hope is lost, the only thing left that we can do is to let them die with dignity. This is exactly what the Hospice is helping families of dying patients do.

It's a good cause, and it's good to do something in the name of charity, so make a pledge, spent a little money and support us by leaving loads of comments.

I'll be on 9am to 1pm Sunday morning.

Cheers!

Ok so my host has been having some problems with the current data center, so we are shifting the boxes to another data center, I've told them exactly how to do it, to negate any down time, or desynch in data.

The current transfer is from 12th June, so it's now 3 days out of date.

Those posts on my site and those hosted by my service http://www.malaysiablogs.com would be lost, so I've asked them to do it a different way, it should be fine.

It was supposed to be transferred overnight, last night, but it wasn't, they were busy, so it should be done this morning, then Suan and I can update again, yay!

If you are technically inclined ping shaolintiger.com

If you see:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping shaolintiger.com

Reply from 69.61.45.98: bytes=32 time=271ms TTL=48
Reply from 69.61.45.98: bytes=32 time=271ms TTL=48

It's the old server

If you see:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping shaolintiger.com

Reply from 64.92.172.122: bytes=32 time=271ms TTL=48
Reply from 64.92.172.122: bytes=32 time=271ms TTL=48

It's the new server, so post a comment or sommat