Just upgraded this blog to the latest version of Worpress ver 2.6.2. It’s been a long time waiting as my previous version was 2.3.2. One of the reason is I wanted to try out the “Turbo” function where many of the commonly used files are copied into the local machine making common operations fast.
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I still don’t have a good phone with Internet connectivity. Being able to blog directly from the chess tournament venue is always my dream but I still can’t afford to get myself one. Anyway, here’s another dream phone… Continue reading

Thanks to those who have supported me in buying my Malaysian Megabase 2008 (RM 10) per CD because now I have about 10% of the cost of the camera. A little slow but I’m sure I’ll get more in the coming tournaments this few weeks. Hopefully this will be in time before the Malaysian Open [...]

It’s always nice to find someone linking to you unexpectedly. I found a chess blog linking to me by checking Sitemeter referral page. It was strange as it was a Spanish blog. With tools like Google translate, understanding foreign language blogs is not a problem nowadays. I translated the page, it’s surprisingly accurate with only [...]

Here’s another new fad on the blogs today. It’s called Entrecard and it’s supposed to be the new electronic business card on the internet. I’m new to it as I’ve just installed it on this blog. Take a look at the top graphics on the header.
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We have so many Malaysian chess blogs nowadays it’s hard to keep up. Most of the blogs are updated irregularly, with the exception of http://Hairulovchessmaniacs.blogspot.com which is currently very active!
I’ve created an aggregated website of 10 Malaysian blogs. Now you can keep up to date with the many local chess blogs in one site.
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My Nokia 7650 is old and kaputt. Looking for a good replacement that can do mobile blogging as well as the old phone. My pick is the future Nokia N96 that will be coming out somewhere late this year.
 
It’s the predecessor to Nokia N95 which is also a great phone.

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I love this new live blogging tool called Cover it live. The Closet Grandmaster is using it to blog live from the Sydney Open.
Mas won his last game against ACT player Gareth Oliver. The Malaysian is now on 2.5/3
~live blog from ClosetGrandmaster
I will definitely use it in the coming DATMO in August.
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I really love using one of the free blogging tools from Microsoft (never thought I’d say this) called Windows Live Writer. With one of the cool polaroid plugins, it was easy to insert pictures like below:-

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Take a look at the site (China Digital Times) and you would not guess it was running on WordPress.It goes to show you can run any website (including chess websites ) using WordPress. I’ve always believed that it is very extensible and for a news site it fits perfectly.They have just migrated over from [...]

I’m holidaying in Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands right now and I don’t want to come back to KL
I’m using this tool called PixAround for the above panoramic view of Tanah Rata… Continue reading

Every morning my routine is to read up on all the local and internation blogs to see if there is anything interesting. This has replaced reading the morning newspapers since I don’t subscribe to The Star anymore.I thought I’d share one of my page collection of all local chess blogs. It will list 3-5 latest [...]

Never got food poisoning this bad before. Vomitted last night in a friends car after having mixed rice at a mamak restaurant. Embarassing!!
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Making A Chess Board The Quick&Easy Way - Click here for more free videosAny Malaysian carpenters out there??… Continue reading

That’s one thing I know for certain. If you can type, you can blog!Check out my first ‘tutorial’ on how to create a chess blog in 10 minutes. After that, come back here and put your blog URL in my comment section. I will link to it via GilaChess.com to give it traffic. Also, my [...]

Chess Publisher finally hits 100 active users !! Hard to imagine there are so many chess bloggers out there. So what are you waiting for? Start blogging now, if not on chess, then on whatever is your interest

SusanPolgar - http://www.susanpolgar.com
Klamert - http://http://www.fasanerie-nord.de/
fpawn - http://www.fpawn.com
pollo - http://pollo.blogspot.com
fidemaster - http://joseadelgado.blogspot.com
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These are the current registered users of Chess Publisher. It has not reached 100 yet but I’d like to give out some link love to the early adopters. I know most people don’t like to register themselves, even if it is for a FREE service but 89 registered users is good. Anyway the purpose is [...]

One slight problem with Chess Publisher is the need to press the ‘Replay Game’ button before you can view the game on the board. The natural thing for most people to do is to press the play [>] button and expect the pieces to move.
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Looks like chess bloggers still prefer the first version of Chess Publisher released over a year ago. Even though I’ve finished and released the second version of Chess Publisher, the number of blogs using it is still quite small.The main reason is the first version is pretty easy to use. All you need is a [...]