June 01, 2003
My Chinese Blog
After failed to understand why the browser can’t transferred Chinese words properly to MT, I‘ve given up on MT. I‘ve blog about it and tend it try b2 on it. Then I just put it aside. Time flies. It’s a pieceful Sunday and I decided to give it another try.
I found Wordpress, which is a blogging system inherited from cafelog/b2. Obviously it used PHP + MySQL. The installation was easy, upload everything under the blog root, configure it in b2config.php, run the installation script. That’s it. You got a blog! What’s better for me is, it seem supporting multi-bytes. I just tried posting Chinese words without configure anything, it works! Here’s my finally up-Chinese Blog and its first (to test the Trackbak) post.
I ain’t good at Chinese input. I used to type Chinese words in Eten Zhuyin years ago in Taiwan. It isn’t an option for me while I was backed to Malaysia and the keyboard with Zhuyin symbol isn’t available then. My job isn’t required Chinese typing too. So after 6+ years, it is way difficult to recall what I used to known. Yes, your memory did loss with ages.
Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 1
Mazilla has released 1.4 RC 1. It’s a recommended update. So far I’ve never encounter any problem since I used 1.4 Beta. Lots of bugs fixed in this version and I do feel the improvement of performance. The helpful junk mail feature has been improved too with a option “Delete junk mail in this folder” under Tools menu. However, I’d prefer junk mail is deleted by default after trained.
One key reason I switched totally from IE/Opera to Mozilla was its rendering. My usual platform is Windows XP/NT4, and I always feel the web page looks nicer under Mozilla, especially the fonts. Not sure if this is only happen to me, I do enjoy it a lot.
Joel also switch.