Map

Hong Kong map: CentaMap

Public transportation

The train roadmap: MTR journey planner. A PDF version.

Road search and road info: Public Transport Enquiry Service.

Snapshots and live webcast of transportation condition from GovHK.

Public transportation in Hong Kong from GovHK.

Weather

Current weather and 7-day weather forecast: Hong Kong Observatory.

Beach

Beach water quality from EPD.

Dinning

Hong Kong restaurants guide: OpenRice.

Dim Sum menu with Cantonese pronunciation and names in Chinese and English: Dim Sum guide.

Movie and cinema

Hong Kong file guide: wmoov

Travel guide

Official travel guide from the Hong Kong Tourism Board: Discover Hong Kong.

Hong Kong National Geopark.

The Peak.

Victoria Harbour.

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• A free personal wordpress blog solution
• 2009年5月9日 311寝室 枫林校区小聚

Main menu ->

Press6 (Shop addresses, etc service.) ->

Press 3 (Services application.) ->

Press 5 (The other services application.)

You will get the message “Please wait for a while, our customer service manager will answer your call…”. Wait for a while and then you will get serviced :)

• Information for Living and Travelling in Hong Kong
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• 2009年5月9日 311寝室 枫林校区小聚

Cheers!

CSS level 3 validation is also passed after changing the CSS file of the theme and the plugins.

Updated on 5 Mar. 2010. CSS3 validation passed.

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• Information for Living and Travelling in Hong Kong

作法：
1. 以A为圆心, 半径＝AB作圆1, 令AB＝R.
2. 以B为圆心, 半径＝R作圆2, 交圆1于C, D两点, 令CD＝R’.
3. 以C为圆心, 半径＝R’作圆3, 交圆1于E点, 则BE＝2R为圆1的直径.
4. 以E为圆心, 半径＝2R作圆4, 交圆2于G, H两点, 则BG＝BH＝R.
5. 以G为圆心, 半径＝R作圆5.
6. 以H为圆心, 半径＝R作圆6, 交圆5于I点, 则I即为A, B中点.

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But unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t provide a simple way to put several pages and put some part like the widget into it. So I write some php script that will call WordPress’s API to put them input pages.

The page template is like this. This template enable the theme and load the common files that contains WordPress’s API functions. Then it generate the header, sidebar and the footer. What we need to do is add the content to replace “TODO: content here” now.

<?php
/**
* Loads the WordPress environment and template.
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {
  $wp_did_header = true;
  require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wp-load.php' );
}
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="container">
  TODO: Content here.
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

1. Categories

The code for categories is:

<div>
<h1><?php _e('Categories', 'default'); ?></h1>
<div>
<ul>
  <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&show_count=1'); ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

wp_list_categories() can list all the categories as a list. “show_count=1″ means the post number under each category will be shown after the category.

2. Archives

The code is:

<div>
<h1><?php _e('Archives by Month', 'default'); ?></h1>
<div>
<ul>
  <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=1'); ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

wp_get_archives() will show the archives. the type can be changed to weekly, daily to show archives by week or day.

3. All posts

The code:

<div>
<h1><?php _e('All posts', 'default'); ?></h1>
<div>
<ul>
<?php
  //The Query
  query_posts('posts_per_page=1000');
  //The Loop
  if ( have_posts() )
  {
    while ( have_posts() )
    {
      the_post();
?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"
title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php
_e('</li>');
    }
  }
  //Reset Query
  wp_reset_query();
?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

At most 1000 posts’ titles will be listed.

Put these php files into the site, edit the theme files and then enjoy it! :)

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After pay for a hosting service, I can install a lot of plugins that I like. hostso’s Aspire Plan is great value. With only HK$4 every month, I get a professional hosting service. I will no longer worry about the bandwidth (hostso provide unlimited bandwidth) and CPU usage now. Their server is fast relatively. The server’s performance is enough for my blog. And the IP can also be accessed from China. If this IP can not be accessed from China, I can ask the support to change a different for me. It very convenient and affordable. I am happy with it now.

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I will briefly introduce how to set up a wordpress blog like my blog (pkill.info). The overall that I paid for this blog is only $0.89. I can say that it is nearly free. And the 5G traffic is enough for my blog. There are many free blog service providers such as wordpress.com and blogger. But I prefer to set up it by myself because I can control the domain name, the program and the content of my site and I can bakup the site very easily.

1. Domain registration:

Ff you do not want to pay for the domain you can also get a CO.CC domain for FREE from www.co.cc (aff). You will have full dns or forwarding control of the co.cc domain you have. Dns server, CNAME, MX record, forwarding are all available. They provides an easy configuration choice for google application.

I register my domain at the low price of $0.89 from GoDaddy.com (aff). .info domain is very cheap for registration. And the annual renew fee is $7.9. If the .com domain is more convenient, you can register one at the price about $10/year.

2. Hosting service:

I am now using hostso (aff)‘s HK$48/y plan. I decide to pay for a good hosting service to host my blog. With a hosting service that I pay I can get a better service.

If a free hosting service is needed, I still give my recommendations:

When considering the free hosting service, I have several rules:
* It should have some way for earning money. I don’t like to see that my site disappear because the site runs out of their money.
* It should provides PHP + MySQL solution. I mainly using WordPress.
* It should allow ad-free. I don’t like to have a big banner on top or at the bottom of my site.
* It should have a good availability rate and performance.
* It will be better if my friends in China can also browse the site on there servers.

x10Hosting.com is the best free hosting service I have ever found. My blog is running on their servers now. Their service can fulfil all my requirements listed above ;) . They provides 500MB disk space 10G bandwidth and 3 MySQL database, which is far enough for my personal blog. They provides .htaccess support and FTP account. And what’s best is that my friends in China can also browse my blog directly now. Their control panel and web design are much professional, I like it very much. Compared to the other free hosting service, I highly recommend x10hosting.

Before x10hosting, I used the free hosting plan of freehostia.com. I don’t recommend the service of 000webhost.com now even they offer a “1500 MB Disk Space, 100 GB Data Transfer” plan at the price of $0.00. I like the 000webhost’s service plan and the user interface better. But it seems they don’t accept new application now. I thought I wouldn’t spend time on transferring my site because their free 5G traffic plan is enough for me. If more disk space or traffic is needed for your site, you can consider the paid service plan. But the x10hosting’s service is good enough for persuading me to transfer ;)

So, with overall fee of $0.89, I get a personal blog. And I thank the guys that make wordpress and it’s useful plugins available to us for free! WordPress is my favourite blog. I can choose any theme that I like and the most beautiful thing is that there are all kinds of plugins ready for using!

The theme and plugins I am using are:
Theme: iBlog2 (A MacOS X style theme)
Plugins: Akismet (Anti spam), All in One SEO Pack (SEO plugin), KB Robots.txt (Edit robots.txt file), Sociable (Add share and enjoy), WP Super Cache (Save CPU usage of the server), Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (Recommend related posts).

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• This blog passes W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional Validation
• The wordpress desktop client – lekhonee

The interface is simple, but it can provides most of the functions:
* Writing post.
* Select categories.
* Add tags.
* Load and Edit the old post.
And it can provides the convenient “Spell Check” function.

It is already in Fedora’s repository, so installing it is straight forward:

# yum install lekhonee-gnome

Before using it, first go to the Writing Settings to enable XML-RPC publishing protocol. For example, in this blog the address is: http://blog.zhiqiangma.info/wp-admin/options-writing.php

lekhonee will add a message under the post to tell the word that the post is written in lekhonee. If you find it annoying, it can be closed easily by unchecking “Edit -> lekhonee msg”.

Let’s have a try and enjoy it ;)

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/lekhonee/

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The latest address is http://pkill.info

• This blog passes W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional Validation
• A free personal wordpress blog solution
• Information for Living and Travelling in Hong Kong

• Information for Living and Travelling in Hong Kong
• New blog address
• 2009年5月9日 311寝室 枫林校区小聚