Finally, my website is online. Or maybe back online would be a better term. For the past week or so, I’ve been spending my spare time getting this domain and my website online, setting up this WordPress installation, designing the theme, and transferring old data on to it from my previous host, which was one of my own computers. Finally having decided to go with a paid, hosted solution, I can say this takes a burden off my back, and with hosting and domain registration being fairly cheap nowadays, it doesn’t really put a dent in my student-sized wallet either. So, without further ado, welcome to unitstep.net, the home of Peter Chng!

The current setup is running WordPress on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) setup hosted by Site5. I chose WordPress because firstly, it’s a great blogging platform, and secondly, it’s written in PHP, which I’m familiar with, so tinkering with it should be easier for me. Thus, customization, which I love to do, shouldn’t be all that hard, and I should get a good return on any investment in time I spend in tweaking WordPress. Building this site should be a fun learning experience, though I should probably also learn look more into Linux and Apache, which haven already been taken care of for me, but that’s for another day.
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If any of you have visited SimpleBits (the personal site of Dan Cederholm), you’ll probably be aware of their great SimpleQuiz series of discussion-provoking questions that are mostly about semantics. While I’m not a huge semantic nut (though I think semantics are useful, but at times impractical), one quiz caught my attention over the summer, and I’ve still been thinking about its topics for a while. Continued

Thanks to a nice fellow SCI ’07 Engineer at Queen’s, I finally have a GMail account. I’m sort of excited, though I guess people who’ve already had one for months aren’t too impressed. But I am. I’ll be testing it out for the next little while, and playing with countless 3rd-party GMail utilities available to gauge my experience. Look back here in a bit if you’re interested on hearing my take. (By then, GMail will most likely be fully-public.)