You’re all grown up now
Eagerly anticipating Muffin’s arrival
Muffin is due to arrive in a matter of weeks and we’re both very excited. Occasionally I find myself thinking, “OMG! I’m going to be a daddy!”
Lots of excitement, tempered with cold sweat..
Pei Chyi and I attended pre-natal classes at SDMC conducted by Jenlia Maternal Services. Highly recommended. They brought us to tour the delivery rooms.
We’ve also got all the clothes, diapers, mats, pillows and god knows what else.
*Exciting*
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Can you drastically change how WordPress looks in 10 minutes? The Headway theme can!
I’m a user and big fan of the Headway Premium WordPress theme. This blog is made with Headway. I’ve been wanting to do a review of it and so I challenged myself to customise the default Headway style into a business website – all in 10 minutes. Check the video out and let me know what you think.
I followed that up with a full review of Headway and why I think it’s a great solution for small businesses. Check out my Headway theme review on the Buzzmedia blog:
WordPress for small business – even better with the Headway Premium WordPress Theme
Hide status updates from Facebook apps, not your friends
I find it irritating when I log in and see status updates from apps that my friends are using. If you feel the same, here’s how you can hide these updates without blocking your friends.
Digital Edge 26
Yours truly was a panelist on The Digital Edge Podcast (Episode 26). We talked iPads (I’m bullish), PM Najib Razak’s social media strategy (decide if you want to be in or out) & Maxis’ 1Store mobile app store (what a half-assed effort).
Book Review: Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields
Before you say anything, yes I know I wasn’t looking directly into the camera. I was looking at the preview, which was just to the left of the lens and didn’t think it would be so obvious. Besides that, I would love any more feedback you may have about the review.
Book Info
Author: Jonathan Fields – read his blog, or follow @jonathanfields on Twitter
Book Website: CareerRenegade.com
Buy the book from Amazon.com
Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields
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Should the USA ‘protect’ the internet?
2010 kicked off with a very interesting high-stakes drama unfolding between Google and China. The situation has now blown up and got the US government involved. Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a speech on Internet Freedom which basically outlined a new foreign policy for USA and extended it to the internet.
In a nutshell, the US wants to help ensure the freedom of the internet to everyone, all over the world, especially in countries like Iran and China. Erick Schonfeld in Techcrunch says it best:
Apparently, it is now the U.S. government’s foreign policy to protect and promote these freedoms throughout the information “commons” which extend beyond our physical borders. It is also U.S. foreign policy to encourage corporations, particularly those in the technology industry, to protect these freedoms.
I’d highly encourage reading the Techcrunch article which does a great job of explaining Clinton’s speech – Hillary Clinton Extends Foreign Policy To The Internet And Wants Your Help. For background on how this all came about, check out CNET News’ roundup (Google’s challenge in China), especially this video that summarises everything - Video: China’s attack on Google explained.
My Thoughts
I’m really not a fan of politics and international relations. However this seems like a really big development that may impact the internet throughout the world, and not just in China and USA.
This also smacks of USA being the world’s sherrif, but I ask myself who else could or would even try to protect the internet. And on the other hand is China – the world’s largest country and possibly the most powerful – is censoring the media and the internet like nobody’s business. If our silly politicians here try to censor the internet we would be up in arms right?
I’m not sure how I feel about this, but I definitely don’t want the internet to be censored or for there to be a Chinese internet and an English internet. What do you think?
Photo Credit: Flickr/ U.S. State Dept
Message to Luke Skywalker
Mess__e to L_ke Sky__lker on Flickr
Can you read this, Luke Skywalker? on Flickr
Love this! These are images from the Stormtrooper 365 project. The 2 above are from the Message to Luke Skywalker miniseries.
Why I don’t want to be Chris Brogan
If you’re in the social media business you’d definitely want to be like Chris Brogan. He’s like the father of social media marketing. He wrote a book on it. His blog has got more readers than I’ll ever have. In short, he’s a rockstar.
Lots of people would love to trade places with Chris, but not me. I’m not saying that I’m lazy, but it starts to get crazy when it get’s like this:
I thought about the inanity of waking up at 5:45AM after going to bed around 12:45AM and not really falling asleep until closer to 3AM.
See more in his Overnight Success series.
It’s the first week of the new decade and I’ve been thinking long and hard about my priorities. Things have changed for me, I’m gonna be a daddy. I have nothing but respect for Chris, but I think I’d rather follow the footsteps of Tim Ferris, Jonathan Fields or John & Lea Woodward. I bet they get more sleep, and more time to watch their kids grow up.
Stuff I won in 2009
I’ve been pretty blessed in 2009 because I won quite a boatload of stuff. I don’t consider myself very lucky, but check out the haul I got this year:
1. Free photo shoot from Raw Pixel Studios from Twestival lucky draw. We used this for a recent maternity shoot, photos will be up soon.
2. DiGi Pimp [...]
Did you *really* expect a Christmas card from David?
If you know me well at all, you’ll know that I’m pretty scatter-brained and constantly forgetting important details. Well, I blew it again and didn’t manage to send any Christmas cards out this year. Therefore, here’s my lame greeting to all my friends and family. (I’ll try to do better next year).
Merry Christmas everyone! Normal [...]
2009: Year In Review
I figured I should really start doing yearly summaries since I blog irregularly. Hence, I present to you David Wang’s year in review, 2009 edition.
Career
I started off 2009 as the Web Analytics and Social Media Manager for AGENDA. We had moved to our new office in Solaris Mont Kiara and my commute had grown longer. [...]
FreelanceShow holiday giveaway
I stumbled upon FreelanceShow recently, which has quickly become my new favorite freelancing resource. In addition to great podcasts, they are now running a contest with over $4,800 in prizes from awesome sponsors like CampaignMonitor, 37Signals, FreshBooks, and CulturedCode! How did he get these fantastic sponsors??
To participate, you need to tell Neil (the editor of [...]
Itchy-faced kid does cover of I’m Yours
Found this on Twitter, linked from Jason Mraz’s blog. Cute little kid
Zeldman on self promotion
Zeldman on self promotion:
If you believe in what you do, and if you’re doing it for real, you must find ways to let people know about it.
Bookmarking this great quote
PicApps gives bloggers access to licensed photographs for free
Check out this awesome pic of Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick. Usually bloggers wouldn’t be able to use such high quality images beause of licensing issues, but new service PicApp changes that. PicApp has worked out licensing with premium image providers like Corbis, Getty Images, etc to give bloggers access to these images for free. [...]
WordPress 2 for iPhone now available
WordPress 2 for iPhone is now available at the App Store. I’m blogging from it right now. Yes, you can upload pics from your phone. Learn more »
PayPal now works with Malaysian banks
Here’s a great how-to from the webShaper boys: How to link PayPal to Malaysia Bank Account
The Marriage Course: Building Strong Foundations
This is the first in a series of posts about The Marriage Course–a course that is aimed at helping married couples strengthen their relationship.
Pei Chyi and I recently started attending The Marriage Course on the recommendation of my parents. Despite feeling a little weird about it in the beginning, I decided that I would do [...]