I proudly present the new face of my blog. I have been developing this wordpress theme for the past two weeks, experimenting with AJAX and PHP. The new layout greatly improved the aesthetic and function of my blog. On every page, I added a drop down menu and a left side bar with widgets on recent posts, and comments for easier navigation. On the front page, I added more information about my blog on the right side bar. This theme is not yet complete and the rennovation of my site is only half done. Here is the short term and long term to-do list for my blog.
Short Term:
Package the theme for download and create a documentation page for the theme. I still have to figure out where to submit theme.
Add a profile box on the front page with brief introduction of myself
Write the page about myself
Write the page explain the meaning of “Philosophy’s Camp” and some background history of horace.org
Add comment sections for pages.
Long Term:
Rework the CSS style sheet, consolidate the style elements. My current style sheet is based on the wordpress default theme, so it still contains with many useless elements.
Add post preview on the search result page, category and archieve index page.
Think about what to put in the place of the right side bar in single post page.
Use collapsable tree for the page widget and archive widget
Make the theme true AJAX compliant, only refresh the updated portion of page instead of refreshing the whole page
Add a database to display quotes from my favour philosophers.
Feel free to leave me comments to let me know your opinion on the new design. Tell me what new features you would like to see and what current feature is hard to use. I will incoporate the suggestion in the next release.
「波叔出城」的英文原名很長﹐叫Borat: Cultural Learnins of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan。故名知義這電影是套虛構記錄片(Mockumentary)﹐主角波叔份作哈薩克(前蘇聯分裂出來的一個小國)國營電視台的記者﹐在美國到處找名人閒人訪問﹐騙他們說是來美國取經學習文化﹐其實卻是暴露美國文化荒謬反智的一面。波叔原本只是英國電視節目Ali G Show的一個環節﹐透過Scahan Cohen飾演波叔的古怪行徑﹐瘋狂搞笑地諷刺美國文化。波叔說很一口鄉音極濃的英文﹐思想上則是極端白人男性主義。受訪者往往因為波叔的惡搞訪問﹐而不自覺的說出些認同波叔的極端想法﹐又或者抱著政治正確的想法包容多元文化﹐而給波叔弄得哭笑不得。
I was talking to a colleague from Taiwan today. This poor guy cannot go back to Taiwan, not even visiting, or he will be throw into jail once he landed. He came to Canada to study highschool and university hence escaped the 2 years military service. Although he is now a Canadian citizen, he cannot renounce his Taiwan citizenship until he had served his term. As long as he is a Taiwan citizen, he will be subject to the Taiwanese law once he set foot on Taiwan. He said that even changing his name cannot escape the military service, somehow the Taiwan government know you are the same person. I feel sorry for him that he can’t even go home to visit his parents back in Taiwan. Military service a very unproductive policy. Young men wasted two years in the army, not learning anything particularly useful. The talented who study aboard won’t come back to the country since the cost of spending two years in the army is too high. People should not forced to join the army. The army should just hire its soilders like the police hire policemen. Making it a true profession instead of forcing the unwilling young men to join will improve the quality and fighting power of the army. Military service is a thing of the past when the number of men determine the outcome of a war. In future wars, technology and elite soldiers can make up with a smaller army by fighting more efficiently. The army will only have soldiers who control the weapons and the technicians and engineers who supporting the weapons. There is no need for the foot soldiers, except maybe a small team of special operation force.
Tonight I am having dinner with an old friend whom I have known more than 20 years. I talk to him about I am having a mid-life crisis, try to find my identify and place in the world. My friend have trouble understanding my problems, not that he thinks I am thinking too much. He can’t even grasp the concept of mid-life crisis, since he never think about this questions at all. He is pretty much living a worry free life all these year. This friend is also an engineer, but he seems living in a totally different world. He has been a straight A student in school since the day I know him. The highest rank I ever have in primary school is the 10th, but my friend always stay in the top 3. Now he is working for a crowned corperation with 100% job security. He career path is straight ahead for him. Since his company havn’t hire engineers for a long time before he join, all engineer above him will soon retire. He just have to hang in there long enough and eventually he will be the chief engineer leading the whole division. My jaw drops when he told me his net worth is more than half a million. I can’t make that much money all my working years combined even I don’t have to spend a dime. The only thing that trouble him is that he is still single, which something I can’t explain. He is tall (over 6 feet) and good looking (ok, he does look geeky, but that can be easily fixed). He has lots of money in the bank and have a job with great persective. He should be a girl magic, a diamond bacholer. I am very keen to introduce my single female friend to him. Sometimes I really envy his simple life, so I don’t have to worry about my mid-life crisis. On a second thought, if I were in his position, I will probably feel very bored. Then I would start looking new that will bring me back all the troubling thoughts.
