lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

I am not sure when I got into this phase of my life. I was taking things passively and letting life pass me by, instead of making life happen.

This moment sounds an end to this phase. Things are not "Not my problem." anymore.

Time right now is :Fri Apr 11 03:27:48 PDT 2008

After a long time, I tackled under-documented php code and I came out victorious after wrangling with it for 2 nights (around 4 hours of work each night).

Joomla! is the cms I use to run my site and it has proven to be good software. There is a good collection of Joomla extensions, but quite a lot of the extensions are under dubious licenses and don't do all the work I want. Hence the need to get a clue on how to make joomla extensions.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its fragrance in the desert air

Nothing teaches us more about life than death itself. Journalist Beate Lakotta and photographer Walter Schels asked 24 terminally ill people if they could accompany them during their last weeks and days. From these vigils came a series of insightful descriptions and photographic portraits taken before and after death.

This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living

Link: Life before death

I had to do some fiddling around with putting unicode characters in html text. Basically, I wanted to put the √ and ✗ characters in the html doc I was prepearing. I found these links useful

• Unicode Characters and HTML Numeric Character References - check out the Unicode Character To HTML Numeric Character Reference Converter tool on that page. It is useful when you have some text (possibly copied from a web page or another document) and you want to covert this text into HTML numeric character references, so that you can insert it into some HTML you want to create or edit.
• Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications - A big reference of characters

In January last year, President Hu Jintao reportedly ordered officials to regulate the internet better and "purify the online environment" ensuring that online information is "healthy" and "ethically inspiring".

Seen on BBC's website

low expectations when it comes to the salary