Grade 8 Trade Market

In the past few days, us grade 8 boarders had started a trade market (sort off...). Basically somebody started selling cans of coke, and others copied the idea and sold sprite, root beer... today they were selling pizza...

School

Finally I was able to get the computer working. *sigh* Still... the flash player is not working for me. Also, I'm very happy that some computers in the school has Flash Professional 8 installed. Hopefully there will be some site updates soon!

PHPBB3

http://forums.penguinposters.net/

I just upgraded the forum to PHPBB3. Took me quite a bit of time, but the result is worth it!
The bad thing is that I have to relearn the phpbb3 system. It's very different from phpbb2.

Dental Check + Golf

I just got a dental checkup today. Good thing I don't have any cavities. It's just the normal procedures, but I felt a little bit more painful this time. More bleeding I'd say. Hopefully I will be able to keep a set of healthy teeth for long enough time.

By the way, I played a game of golf yesterday in University Golf Course. I screwed up my 5-wood terribly; keep hitting it into the trees. However, I did shot a 5 on a par 5. That was when I hit 3 consecutive good drives and then 2 putts for par. I forgot to take a score card, and I don't think I did too good in the other holes. I think I scored a 12 or something on 1 hole because I landed a flop on top of a big hump, and it rolled back down. Then, I hit a small chip, and it rolled over the green. I tried coming back, but hit it way pass. After that, I finally hit a good chip and 2 putted.

Puzzle Section

I just updated the puzzle section. There should now be a "hide answer" link so that you can collapse the answer after viewing it. Just a nice feature. Also, changed the color of the text. It took me a long time mainly because of the dynamic textfield in flash 8. When you assign a set of html, it is changed to another set of html before displayed. That makes it very very hard to update because I have to find out Flash's html format, and unfortunately flash does not support regular expression. *it would have been dead easy if I had been able to use regular expression*

Website Update

Meh. I'm getting lots of negative responses on the black theme... I got tired of it too after a few months looking at the dull black-and-white website. So, I switched to a blue theme! Took me quite a bit of time, but I'm happy with the results.

Also, we are switching to a new server soon. I'm waiting for GoDaddy to setup the domain name information. Hopefully then everybody can enjoy a quicker and better experience!

Btw, I'm happy to get lots of good responses for my Anti-alias plugin. Hopefully it will get stickied. I remembered the time when the feather plugin came out. It didn't work so well (making images glow in the background instead of actual smoothing), and I stopped using it for 4 months. I just don't understand how it got so much good responses (9 pages! crazy!). I guess people just see a decent one and rate it as good simply because there wasn't anything better.

Paint.net Plugins

Meh, wrote a few plugins for my favourite image editing program - Paint.net.

Anti-Alias (v1.5)
This plugin is mainly made as a replacement of the (awful at edge smoothing) feather plugin.
http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=6567

Bevel (v1.4)
A kinda 3D frame effect. It's found in most image editing programs, but somehow Paint.net is missing it.
http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=6526


Diagonal Lines (v1.2)
My first plugin ever! It's a very simple one, but works like a charm. Can be employed in a wide range of images from userbars to warning signs (with thick yellow diagonal stripes).
http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=6483


Enjoy!