http://knguyentu.com/wordpress Home Of SAPHELPBYKEVIN.COM , PHOTOGRAPHYBYKEVIN.NET & Smilepak Blog Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:13:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On a recent trip to the bay area on business, I stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn, Foster City, California. The location is approx 15 - 20 minutes from San Franisco and less than 30 minutes from San Jose. Near the heart of Silicon Valley, the surround area as you ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/07/hilton-garden-inn-foster-city-california/ A couple of weekends ago, my wife and I join our friends at Disneyland Resort for a day. I've been to Disneyland several times and each time you could never seems to take enough pictures. Each time I come across new angle of things to take pictures of. This time ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/07/disneyland-resort-california/ Nikon has once again stunt the photography world. Since the D200 release, Nikon was quiet, while Canon and other companies releasing major blow one after another. The highly anticipated D200 replacement, dubbed the D300 was released not too long ago along with it's bigger brother the D300. Earlier this month, Nikon ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/07/nikon-annouced-d700-d3-in-mini-me-format/ As count down to Bill Gates last day @ Microsoft (actually it is today June 27th, 2008), check out this cool video he release a few months ago at CES2008 on his going away....   Bill Gates stepped down as CEO and standing at the helm of Microsoft, leaving it to Steve ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/06/byebye-bill-gates/ When happen when you ask a little girl about monster...Interestingly funny video. Take a look and see.. ShareThis http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/06/what-happen-when-you-ask/ Here is a little neat trick for Wordpress. Normally, you would use the WordPress tag "query_posts" to query against the database to list all of the posts relating to one or more categories. Usually a simple query against a category would like something like this: <?php query_posts(showposts=5&cat=$category); while(have_posts()) { the_post(); } ?> Basically all this is ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/06/wp-splitting-category-listing-into-multiple-pages/ Funny video, interestingly made...  ShareThis http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/06/putting-on-the-ritz-w-george-bush/ This should be helpful for anyone who decided to host their own blog using WordPress another location. It took me awhile to search for this since the new blogger version template style changed a bit. http://laffers.net/howtos/howto-redirect-blogger-to-wordpress Thanks to laffers.net for putting this together. It was extremely useful! Here are snip of what he ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/06/wp-redirect-from-bloggercom-to-another-location/ Here is a little WordPress tip / trick. For anyone who is trying to build their sidebar and or want to add a dropwdown list style for category listing, this is one simple method. http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories You can use the code snip they've provided <li id="categories">lt;h2><?php _e('Posts by Category'); ?></h2> <?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select category'); ?> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- var ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/06/wp-creating-dropdown-list-of-categories/ I had mentioned in the Wordpress Plugin section, there is an Zenfolio RSS plug that is used to display nice little thumb nails on the side bar of your Zenfolio Galleries. In search of finding something more specific, I came across an alternative method. While it is no plug in ... http://knguyentu.com/wordpress/2008/06/alternative-rss-method-zenfolio-flickr-etc/