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I’ve just developed a small classified ads engine, and show it off at hot.my
It is still at beta stage, meaning may not work as expected. It should be tagged as alpha version – but I doubt many will know what alpha really means.

What I intended to do with this? Just another classified ads? Yes
Just another one, so you can probably ignore it.

However, if you are interested in the technology behind, wish to adopt it and put a marketing force behind (with your own domain of course), let’s talk.

What is the strength of this engine?

- very small, very clean interface footprint (bandwidth friendly)

- dynamically load sub pages thru AJAX instead of reload the page all the time.

- using email as the “hook” – no registration require before a guest may post content.

- very simple “image gallery”, no Flash required.

In the road map:

- user login dashboard, allow user to manage their post, and more.

- user ranking on item posted – similar to digg or reddit.

- user remark/discuss on item posted.

- more dynamic portal, to show latest post, hot items etc.

- more types, less classified ads approach.

- expand more on properties and automobile.

- migrate to jquery AJAX framework.

A sad day in digital history.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-defendant.html

仙人掌是绿色的，开的花是红色的，煞是好看。

日前跟一位朋友聊天，谈到他的健康状况，其人熟读中医书，强调一日不能饮水超过二公升，否则肾脏不能负荷。
照这样推算，人应该水喝越少越好，这样就能保住肾脏。
咋听之下，似有道理。洗肾者每天往往不能饮水超过600毫升，连一公升也不到，结果只有越洗越频，其人健康也越来越差。
医书要标新立异，哗众取宠，也就罢了。误人健康，引人走上绝路，那真不是道理，简直岂有此理。
友人一边大谈其对医理的深究，一边吞下三颗药丸，一颗降其血压，一颗控制其尿酸，一颗对付其血糖，皆从政府医院得来，非常便宜，自得其乐，乌呼。
我想那也好，只要当事人高兴，我又何必跟他怄气，为了那两公升水而闹呢？
看来我的前路，还很艰难。

From 2.5, now upgraded 2.7.1 for the shake of upgrade. The upgrade process was rather simple, it took 2 commands in the CLI:
cp -Rp wordpress wordpress.bk
rsync -vtrW wordpress271/ wordpress/

First line make a backup of my existing wordpress folder.
Second line copy the new wordpress into the exiting folder, overwriting all the old files.
There is no 3rd line.

WordPress has definately gone a long way of making their upgrade simple. I don’t think my last upgrade was that simple and trouble free as this one. Kudos wordpress, kudos open source!

I’ll like to announce that we have successfully upgraded to new linux only file system: ext4x2, which basically offer double the physical size of the hard disk.
The technology behind was unknown, but some said related to alien’s technologies that found in UFO crashed site – it was cover-up by the US government for 30 years, and only revealed recently.

Linus, the core developer behind the Linux kernel adopted it immediately after the secret has been revealed 1st April 2008, and never turn back ever since.
The software algorithm not only double the size of the existing disk space, but potentially increase the I/O speed by at least 50%.

Linus claimed that there is still room to grow, as the algorithm is too “alienated”. Most of their team member can only understand merely 10% of the code, nobody really know how it works.

There is one side effect however, on the new ext4x2 file system: the ADSL internet bandwidth seems to double as well, which may effect most of the ISP profit margin.
User may download files faster than usual, and still using the same old ADSL link. This however, has no effect on Wifi and most of the mobile network connections, like 3G, GPRS etc.

Many users report good experience with ext4x2, some claimed that their files are a lot smaller now created in ext4x2 system.
Microsoft and Apple cannot be reached at the moment for their future intention on adapting ext4x2. Some industrial expert said Microsoft could never adopt it due to “copyright” issue related to the algorithm (own by the crashed alien), but they’ll definitely reverse engineer it to get the same result.