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In my head I’ve said it a billion times, but alas, I don’t write as often as I would like. I’ve made a small clean-up of this site, deleting some categories etc. Hoping to trim down even more, but this will have to do for now.
What I’m trying to do at the moment, is become more like a stereotypical HK-er by taking more photos! LOL. I have never been one who always carry the camera around, more because I’ve only ever had one smallish camera, all of the others are heavy and bulky (compared to your normal point and shoot anyway). But the only way I can improve my skills is to practice, practice, practice!
The Flickr account was set up for this purpose, I’m hoping it’ll become a record of what I’ve learnt on the way. Still need to read the camera manual tho, dang it!
Photos taken around the Brisbane Botanical Gardens
Photos taken around Brisbane CBD & Southbank
Thinking of going on the CityCat (ferry) one day along the river to get some shots, but the weather is a bit fickle at the moment!
It seems like everytime there is a huge change in my life, I move to a new domain. I am hoping to write more and upload the rest of my photos. There’re still heaps of gaps especially in the tennis photos section – had been really lazy over the past 2 years!
Recently I started using SMF for one of my sites along with the PhotoGalleryBlack theme. The forum has been running for about a week now and I just realised there have been a lot of errors which maybe the reason why posting/replying is so slow.
(The verdict, I think, is that those errors are not related to the speed issues. But let’s just cross one hurdle at a time)
After numerous Google searches which didn’t exactly give the answers that I was looking for, here’s what I did:
(Just wanted to say up front that I am NOT a programmer of any sort and I don’t even work in IT! So the things I did below are just the result of “trial and error”, remember to backup and use at your own risk!)
1. Disable eval() so accurate errors can be reported.
I was getting errors involving “theme_main_color” and “memberContext”.
2. For the “theme_main_color” error, I deleted every instance of it in the file that is causing problems (BoardIndex.template.php).
Original
$settings['images_url'] . '/'. $settings['theme_main_color'], '/', !$category['is_collapsed']
New
$settings['images_url'], '/', !$category['is_collapsed']
3. The next error involved “memberContext” at Line 85 of the theme’s index.template.php file.
- First, instead of $memberContext[$userid] at Line 85, change to $memberContext['userid'].
- Second, there should be two items involving “global” at line 32 and line 63. At the end, add $memberContext.
So Line 32 should read:
global $context, $settings, $options, $txt, $memberContext;
Line 63:
global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings, $memberContext;
Next battle – some undefined index errors have propped up, ARGH. Oh yeah, and speed issues!!!
EDIT: I found the cause of the speed issues!!! Akismet Spam Protection is the culprit, once it’s disabled replying is a breeze!!!
I finally got my ass into gear and changed the theme! 
Future posts might be heavily entertainment related (ie HK/Taiwan TV & music etc) or tennis (since it’s that time of the year again!). Yes, the general policy around here is to not talk about work. This place is kept nice and fluffy to avoid me getting fired! HA! (Rants are mostly posted at LJ, friends only)
On a related note, under the current economic climate my father’s advice is, work hard to avoid getting the chop! Isn’t that a nice feeling?
Hope everyone has a great holiday season – to celebrate (that’s my excuse) I’ve finally changed the theme to this blog and added more content.
I’ve added some of my tennis photos, although they’re not “new” because I’ve posted them at other sites/forums previously. Let me know if you spot something that is not working (I need to tweak some things on the collective pages.) but *hopefully* this provides the grounding where I can put more photos/writings in the future. 
Anyway – Merry Christmas to you!
