William Foster

Quality never happens by chance, it is always the result of high intention.

Changes

Been a while since I’ve done one of these, and I’m quite sure those who go here would have seen the changes, so let me put ’em together, as a list of changes and why they’re good:

  • Utilising a custom-made child theme – Customizations carry over easily, for each theme update changes don’t get wiped.
    • FontAwesome – Neat icon font, retina-ready and beautiful.
      • Post Meta sprites use FA – Decrease load time, increase resolution.
      • Categories have descriptive icons – Visually appealing, credit to @Kujikato for idea.
      • Social Icons on header bar uses FA icons – Decrease load time, increase resolution.
    • Header Bar sticks to top of page on Desktop and Tablet displays. – Can always get to other content easily.
      • WP Admin Bar adjustment – Good for me, so the admin bar doesn’t cover up header bar.
    • 404 Page modified. – Not much, just makes it more ‘me’.
    • Image links edited – No whitening glare when hovering on some images.
    • Custom Search Text – Makes it unique, easier for visitors to understand, lays foundation for further changes.
    • Responsive Ad Unit – Ad graphics resize appropriately to different browser sizes, helps me out too.
    • Small Minuscule CSS Stuff – Makes site more consistent in design, and getting rid of unnecessary stuff.
  • Technical Site modifications – Utilises better offered features, and decreases load time.
    • IP Address Shift – Dedicated IP. No traces of other unrelated sites within subdomains, more focus on own content.
    • CloudFlare – Minimize load time, Maximize reading/browsing experience.
  • Photo publishing now handled using Pressgram.

Long list? 😛

Photo credit: Erin’s Adventures in Israel.

Unknown

I tried to be normal once.

Worst two minutes of my life.

Skype Talk #5

On mobile, the rare moments I let Skype loose is the moment where the phone constantly vibrates without rest as the Skype messages flow in..

Aldous Huxley

By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies — all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

True Math

God made integers; all else is the work of man.

– Leopold Kronecker

Arriving at the Truth

Sourced from a TEDTalk of Lesley Hazleton, a biographer describing about the thought process of Prophet Muhammad: “Part of something closer to the truth is faith”. It would not be directly at the truth, but then again ‘truth’ is what we make of as such to us.

Continue reading “Arriving at the Truth”

Ancient Chinese Saying

A meal without rice is like a beautiful woman with only one eye.

Interesting Take on Murder

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
Unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

– Voltaire