http://www.christinasng.com Thrilling Web Adventures of a Retired Tech Guru Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:05:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes! It is possible! 1. Pay all your bills online You'll save time and fuel paying online than standing in a queue for hours and later eating a fuel-guzzling meat patty on processed bread and trans fat-filled fries, then taking a fuel-guzzling cab or adding your weight to that piece of public ... http://www.christinasng.com/7-green-things-you-can-do-online-to-save-the-world-and-some-money-too/ I've been using Flock for a while now and I have to say it rocks better than any other, even Firefox 3.0, which I find a vast improvement over Firefox 2 but its drop-down address bar just annoys me too much and I can't be bothered to change it now ... http://www.christinasng.com/flock-rocks/ 1. Amazing Graphics While World of Warcraft boasts a vivid landscape, let's face it: the graphics are blocky and past the starter levels, most of the regions look depressing and dark (save for Stranglethorn Vale and Feralas - which is simply gloomy really). Alliance got most of the pretty characters but when ... http://www.christinasng.com/8-reasons-why-guild-wars-is-better-than-world-of-warcraft/ Today I decided to start playing WoW again. I last left my level 49 human rogue at Feralas and was keen to explore that place again. So I paid for a month via Paypal and waited... and waited... half an hour later I cancelled the subscription and began to look ... http://www.christinasng.com/not-a-day-for-online-gaming/ One of the faults with the N82 is that it is awfully hard to see the time when it is on screensaver or power-saving mode. Unlike the e61i and the 6280, it looks almost invisible. Since I am already half-blind, the Large Clock Screensaver is a real lifesaver. It shows you ... http://www.christinasng.com/must-have-app-on-for-the-nokia-n82/ So here I am, waiting for my pasta to cook, and phone in hand, typing out a blog entry on my Nokia N82 while keeping an eye on Boy - where did that cat go! For some reason, the connection speed is lots faster than the e61i and it is far ... http://www.christinasng.com/moblogging-on-the-nokia-n82/ The Twittering begins! I've finally got Twitter on both my main blogs, this one and Strange Machines. Although there are tons of Twitter plugins for Wordpress blogs (and having installed 2 that don't seem to work), I found it easiest to cut and paste the custom HTML and Javascript Twitter code ... http://www.christinasng.com/twittering-on-wordpress/ When fixing your alignment from the left, don't forget to specify an equal white space distance from the right too. As you've probably noticed, I have added Twitter updates on the top right hand box there to humanise the blog a little. :) -> The default setting in Stylesheet flushed it right ... http://www.christinasng.com/align-it-right/ So here I am on Day 7 of my free 10-day trial of Burning Crusade feeling rather bored and having done-it-all (see me as a fiery-haired Blood Elf with a hairband on the left). The thrill died once I wandered into Ghostlands, which looks like another depressing and soulless (excuse the ... http://www.christinasng.com/world-of-warcraft-10-day-free-trial/ I confess it has been a long time since I have had to edit someone else's code. Admittedly these days it is easier to build a site with customisable templates (themes, here on Wordpress) but it takes time to understand what another developer has written and immerse your vision into ... http://www.christinasng.com/fixing-alignment-on-wordpress/