adventures of a blogjunkie

Congratulations Yvonne

blogjunkie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:21:47 +0000

You’re all grown up now

Eagerly anticipating Muffin’s arrival

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:36:59 +0000

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*

Follow Pei Chyi and me on Twitter to know the minute we have to leave for the hospital!

http://twitter.com/peichyi

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Can you drastically change how WordPress looks in 10 minutes? The Headway theme can!

blogjunkie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:09 +0000

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

blogjunkie — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:40:15 +0000

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

blogjunkie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:59:32 +0000

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

blogjunkie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:25:47 +0000

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

When you buy the book with the link above, I get paid a small commission by Amazon–thanks!

Should the USA ‘protect’ the internet?

blogjunkie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:36:59 +0000

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

His name is Zachary

blogjunkie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:33:31 +0000

And he’s due in less than 2 months. *Excited*

Check out the whole set on Flickr.

Message to Luke Skywalker

blogjunkie — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:20:23 +0000

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

blogjunkie — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:15:15 +0000

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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.