One thing that always accompany me is my PDA. It’s an Ipaq RX3715 PDA. It has been accompanied me for 1 year plus. I bought the PDA from other person for $350 through HardwareZone.com. So far it has served me well. Hopefully it will continue to do so.

One of the recent activities that I take interest on is reading classic literatures. I found out that this habit is the best way to kill time when I commute using MRT from my home to my workplace in the morning. At least this way I can keep the reading habit alive and make the commuting time efficient. It also prevent me from wasting the time when I queueing for something. So yes, it is a life-saver :).

I used to read those e-books in Microsoft Reader Format (I’ve read those classics such as Captain Blood, The Call of the Wild, Treasure Island, A Study in Scarlet, Great Expectations, The Prince, The Secret Garden in this format). When I recently rediscover the Project Gutenberg, I was really excited with the number of e-book collections available for download.

The best way to read the e-books from project Gutenberg is to install Vade-Mecum, a plucker document reader for Pocket PC.

So far I have downloaded all Mark Twain‘s books. And currently immersed with Tom Sawyer’s adventures.

In short:

1. Download Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC
2. Download Vade-Mecum, Plucker reader for Pocket PC
3. Download the Free E-Books in Microsoft Reader Format
4. Download the free E-Books in the Plucker Format

Have fun reading!

Whoa.. I’ve been neglecting this blog for a month.

The main reason would the recent GST (Gross ServiceGoods and Services Tax) hike from 5% to 7% which required some works need to be done on the system. The work totally absorbed all my life energy and my will to live (haha.. you know I’m exaggerating :)).

We also have moved into the new HDB flat. The proper term would be shifting, since we moved to the unit in the same block, same floor, but the opposite corner. Hopefully the new space will inspire me better in blogging (which is not happen yet).

Lastly, thanks to all RSS subscribers and readers which still frequently patronize this blog although no updates, not even replies to the comments. I do feel bad for not replying the comments.

Hi all. I have managed to patch the WP-Translate and tested it on WordPress 2.2.

Current Version: 2.2

Overview

WP-Translate is a simple drop in way for users to view your blog in their language. Its easy for any most users to add this functionality to their site.

WP-Translate utilizes the following Online translation services:

1. Alta Vista’s Babel Fish (for translation from English to : French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified/Traditional Chinese)
2. IBM’s Websphere Translation (for translation from English to: Brazilian Portuguese)
3. Interpret (for translation from English to: Bahasa Indonesia, Swedish, Norwegian, Afrikaans)

WP-Translate 2.2 Release Notes

Added the following language for translation:

1. Swedish
2. Norwegian
3. Bahasa Indonesia
4. Afrikaans
5. Chinese Traditional
6. Brazilian Portuguese

Requirements

WP-Translate works with WordPress 1.5 up to WordPress 2.2 (Tested on WordPress 2.2)

Your web server should able to execute PHP.

Installation instructions

1. Upload the wp-translate directory to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> to your template where you want the list. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

Special Installation instructions for non-Wordpress users

As I mentioned before, as long as your Web server supports PHP you should be able to use this plugin. Please follow this steps:

1. Extract the zip file
2. Edit wp-translate.php which is located in wp-translate directory
3. At line 103, replace $img_loc = get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/wp-translate’; with $img_loc = ‘/wp-translate’;
4. Save the file
5. Upload the wp-translate directory to your root folder.
6. In the page you want the flags to be displayed, put <?php include_once(realpath($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’]).’/wp-translate/wp-translate.php’); ?> in the first line of the file.
7. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> anywhere you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

Download Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.2

The previous version can be found here:Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.1

If you like this plugin, please link-back to this post, or add me to your blog-roll. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Having problem with installing the plugin? You have ideas for the plugin? Post a comment and I will try my best to help you.

Update: 5 June 2007

Users of this plugin:

1. Myself (^_^)v
2. Founders Cafe
3. Your Blog?