Beta testing

I spent the whole morning beta testing. Beta testing for what you might ask? It was for the new iteration of my website engine, SquareSpace version 6. The version 5 has been up and running for a good 4 years, well before I started using the platform in March 2009. So far, small improvements were added into the system, but nothing major like the upcoming version.

Fired up, I singed in and did the needful. The template looked amazing, but since it was still in beta, it lacked flexibility. I think much work were put in for stability hence not much tweaking were able to be done. I ended up using an animation-rich setup, although the colour scheme needed looking into.

The gallery page took ages to load, mainly due to local flash-like execution. My SmugMug gallery tended to load up much faster, so I might be sticking to that.

Another issue was the width of the site. It was pretty limited, and the site ended up feeling like a tumblr project. Nice, but not really for serious blogging ….

I am sure many more improvement would be made, and I will be writing my feedback to SquareSpace from time to time. But now, it is time for exploration ……

Give the site a twirl here.

No Kino?

Puan Anita asked me to follow her shopping this evening and I duly obliged. Destination was Suria as she had to buy some stuff for the upcoming trip to Kelantan. As you know, ladies took their time while shopping and I was practically left to my own devices for almost a couple of hours. So, I spent some time at Kinokuniya.

The place was not like it used to be where one was free to browse the books. I loved looking at travel and architecture books. But all of them were covered in plastic films. Yes, you could ask the salesperson to unwrap them for you, but you'd end up with a dirty look and after a couple of unwraps, you'd soon get enough.

I finally had it after half an hour or so, and decided to look at the magazines instead. I do realise that the place was not exactly a library, but the fact that the books were all wrapped just put me off from getting interested.

Maybe I was just getting old .....

To Sport, Or Not

Puan Anita has been worrying all night last night. Idlan was due for School Sports Day today, and she was worried that Idlan won't be able to cope. The event would be held at UIA, and Anita was worried that he would be wandering around looking for toilets etc.

She was asking if we could just not let him go. To be honest, I couldn't really blame her being concerned with the news of a 5-year old abducted in Johore yesterday. So, at last check, Idlan went to UIA. But I wouldn't be surprised if Anita followed suit.

Monday!

After suffering from lack of sleep - well, I woke up for the second half of the Man United Spurs game last night after sleeping with Irfan - I headed out to work knowing that I had some personal stuff to sort out in the morning. After sorting out my morning rounds, it was time to head to the apartment.

Reporting the problem with the heater in the flat was simple enough, but I had clinic later in the afternoon, so I had to arrange for the supervisor to visit the unit on Wednesday morning. Next, I headed out to the bank, and now am having lunch at Bangsar Village. Alone.

Anita has a full morning of things to sort out before our trip out to Kota Bharu on Thursday.

Didn't Make The Cut

We were rather disappointed today. The boys needed a haircut with the trip to Kota Bharu just around the corner. Anita called our friend who is their usual stylist - it was Anita's actually but he does the cutting for my boys as well - but he was on his day off.

Since there were hardly any other time, we headed out to the salon anyway. Instead of the regular stylist, we got a lady to cut the boys' hair. And boy, did we wish we'd come on another day.

It was too short on the sides and Irfan was traumatised with the machine that she used. By the end, he started crying - he never did this before. As for Idlan, he ended up with a bald patch on his left temple. And with a wedding and the Aqiqah next week .......... Let's just say that Anita was livid!