Andrew Ooi

Oh no! I’m now a splogger! Please don’t hate me. I’m not stealing your content. I’m just “syndicating it”. Nice word isn’t it - syndicate. Anyway I am not going into the debate of content syndication and outright content stealing. I’m just going to go ahead and document what I did to create my first […]

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I’ve been procrastinating on restoring one of my PR Zero blogs to it’s original PR4 because the thought of manually looking for each sponsored post and deleting it was just too daunting. Today, I finally bit the bullet and added “No Follow” tags to the links. I think this is much easier and faster than […]

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After my seeing my Dell 640m notebook dying after only 14 months, I come to the conclusion that leaving the computer on hibernate is not good for the battery. I’ve been doing that almost everytime before I go to sleep instead of turning the notebook off.
So to answer the question above I think […]

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I have been registering like crazy WordPress.com sub domain name that is similiar in name or keywords to my main blogs. Eg: GilaChess, AndrewOoi, CameronHighlands, Tanah Rata etc.
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I just discovered Twitter SMS feature. Registered and tried out Twitter early last year but didn’t get the micro blogging thingy. Now going back I find that it’s actually good for sending free SMS.
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WikiMapia is an online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information (in the form of a note) to any location on earth.

~ from WikiPedia
Most importantly WikiMapia has a Google Page Rank of 7/10 which makes it very relavant in Google search engine eyes. Taking […]

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I always felt that Google searches that was customised for us Malaysians made me feel a bit second class. I wanted to see what people outside of Malaysia were seeing in their search results. I really hated Google choosing for me and redirecting me everytime to www.google.com.my when in fact I wanted to just go […]

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What type of favicon to create for a blog which is named so egotiscally after the author? Why use his face of course!
I just created a favicon using my face.
The final favicon is a little too small to see any resemblance to my face but I’ll try to “fine tune” and get it clearer later.
Just […]

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An American couple sitting in Rosette Cafe approached me and asked me where is Park Royal Hotel. Embarassingly, I did not have chance to explore Cameron Highlands as I’ve been busy blogging in the same cafe. The reason they asked me was that they saw the hotel name pop up in their list of available […]

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Lately I have been getting fat and lazy so I took this as a challenge. Upgrade my ‘old’ Wordpress 2.3 to Wordpress 2.3.3 in 10 minutes. Don’t you feel that they are always updating and patching something?
Fed up of seeing this message..
Anyway, I managed to do the upgrade just under 10 minutes including taking the […]

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The picture below was done in less than 5 minutes. I don’t even know how to use Photoshop!
I used to remember 2 years ago some people were selling e-books or tutorials on how to do the above. Now you can do it yourself for free!!
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I was getting really fed up of the long wait I had to endure to see my blog fully load up. The middle sidebar always showed up first and then it took almost half a minute for the main content to actually show. I don’t need sophisticated timing utilities to tell me which components were […]

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Microsoft + Yahoo = Microhoo Ha ha.. that’s what some CNet people like Tom Meritt and Molly Wood had been joking last year when there were rumours that Microsoft wanted to take over Yahoo. It was just rumours. Actually Microsoft has shown interest in acquiring Yahoo since May 2006. However, in the last few days […]

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I noticed that several of our top local bloggers use the /blog folder to install their WordPress. I thought that to be odd. Then I realise many automatic WordPress installation provided by webhosts install them in the /blog folder. Personally, I prefer www.liewcf.com instead of www.liew.com/blog, don’t you? For one thing, /blog just adds unnecessary […]

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One thing I admire about Google is their ability to keep track of individual page ranks. What I mean is that EVERY single page has a page rank on your website.
For example my
www.andrewooi.com/about
 and
www.andrewooi.com/sitemap
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Here’s a tip on solving the dreaded White Screen of Death that some Wordpress bloggers get when we mess around with the templates file or after we upgraded our Wordpress version.
I was inspired to do this video after seeing problogger LiewCF.com encountering the same white screen of death problem too. Since I am an ex-PHP […]

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Marissa Mayer giving a talk at Stanford University. She is Vice-President of Search Product and User Experience at Google.

Lots of interesting stuff about Google here. Also check out her geeky laugh
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It’s common to find Kontera links on blogs but how many Wiki have you seen with Kontera ads?
I wanted to add Kontera to my Malaysia Wiki so I emailed Kontera support for permission to add Kontera on http://malaysia.maribelajar.com. It turns out that since my first blog at http://chess.maribelajar.com was already approved, the wiki which is […]

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