Thinking Anew
Looking at things with my perspective
Better Movie Experience on the Revo
Aug 31st
Last weekend, I purchased an Acer Aspire Revo R3610 from FutureShop. I would like to think that I got a pretty good deal, but more importantly, I was glad that my family members were enjoying the use of this nettop. The initial experience for me was not too pleasant thought. Perhaps a mistmatch of expectations.
I had some early setup problems trying to get the wireless keyboard and mouse to work, until at last I found out that there was a small wireless adaptor embedded in the mouse battery compartment. This adaptor has to be connected to one of Revo’s several USB ports. I tried the top-most port first. Both peripherals seemed to work on bootup, but as soon as Windows started up, the keyboard would become non-functional. That frustrated me quite a bit. Finally, I tried a different port, one at the back of the computer and that seemed to help. More >
Major Changes
Aug 31st
After weeks of deliberation, I finally decided to abandon the Drupal platform and go with a framework that is more niche and simpler to maintain.
Drupal is an excellent platform for managing content, no doubt about that. However, it had more features than I needed, more time needed to maintain.
Here’s a big plus with WordPress, I get to blog on the go. Very often, I have think about things on my long commutes to and from work. By the time I get home, before I have a chance to pen those thoughts and ideas, I would have forgotten them. So being able to blog with my iPhone is a deciding factor. More >