Peng Zhang on July 30th, 2010

Good Hosts I have used and continue to use these hosting companies: Siteground.com Bluehost.com In my opinion, Siteground.com is better than bluehost.com because siteground.com has its own unique SSH access that sandboxes the customer into his/her own account directory while bluehost’s SSH access will allow such users accessto all clients’ directories (I may be wrong [...]

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Today is Friday before a Civic holiday long weekend, and the office closes early at 2 o’clock. I went to the badminton club and enjoyed three hours of good play. I am feeling good about the progress in badminton skills and starting to feel a bit more confident against some of the better players. The [...]

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Peng Zhang on July 26th, 2010

Created an image to size inside Fireworks CS4 for inclusion into Word; exported to JPG at 300dpi, and inserted into Word but the inserted image would get squashed or stretched inside Word. And it seems that Word cannot correctly interpret the dimension of the image. But closer inspection showed that Word has no problem because [...]

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Peng Zhang on July 24th, 2010

A conversation started up between me and a middle-aged man that came into the pool about 20 minutes into the leisure swim hour. Asked whether I am from China. I guess it is a common thing among different races to ask about their place of origin, as though that one piece of information would tell [...]

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Peng Zhang on July 21st, 2010

These are my links for July 20th from 08:29 to 16:19: XML Parsing with jQuery | Switch on the Code – Storm – ScrewTurn Wiki – Free ASP.NET Wiki Software – ScrewTurn Wiki – File Renamer | Batch Rename Files | Bulk Rename Multiple Files | RenameMaestro – Expresso Regular Expression Tool – Tools – [...]

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Peng Zhang on July 18th, 2010

Piwik installation script would do a system check at the beginning. I found that the file integrity check would fail due to the differences in file size, and installation could not move forward without a complete bill of health. This happened on both times of Piwik installation, if I remember correctly. Using FTP client program [...]

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