My personal blog, daily log.Tumblr (3.0; @allenhan)http://allenhan.com/<p>I have been looking for the blogging platform for myself, which means, the one suit me the best. It doesn&#8217;t have to have the most themes, or have the most features. The thing is about blog is to put anything that the author wanted onto the internet.</p> <p><img align="left" alt="Blogger" height="128" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Blogger.svg/256px-Blogger.svg.png" width="128"/>With that thought in mind, I started looking: First, blogger.com one of the best platforms out there, it bothers me with sidebar, and the atom feed, I am a internet-HTML-PHP professional, I do web stuff everyday for a living, and I still don&#8217;t understand what that is. The layout/structure of the sidebar is a mess, different components are not aligned with each other. Someone might raise the point of &#8220;they are not suppose to be aligned.&#8221;, again i like my blog to be tidy and nicely aligned.</p> <p><img align="right" alt="LiveJournal" height="178" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Livejournal-logo.png" width="250"/>Secondly, Livejournal.com. It is one of the most long lived blogging platform. And it is cool, lots of geeks use it, including the famous Mark Zuckerberg, well he used to use it, I think he publish everything on his Facebook page now. LOLS. Ya, back to it, the number themes are very limited with livejournal, and mostly colour changes to one layout. And one more downside of LJ is you can not point your own domain name to it, so you stuck with this <em>yourname</em>.livejournal.com forever. Not that I mind, but livejournal.com is a really long domain name.</p> <p><img align="left" alt="Wordpress" height="100" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/WordPress_logo.svg" width="480"/>Thirdly, Wordpress.com. It is the platform I am most familiar with. I worked on it everyday for more than two years. I used to have a Wordpress blog, it&#8217;s easy to use and powerful, but with the Wordpress.com version, it is not as customizable as the self-hosted, open source version. One other thing, it charges the customers for almost for all cool features, custom domain names, ads free or edit css of the theme.</p> <p>At last, I came back to tumblr where I post most of my everyday photos. It&#8217;s so easy to use and you can custom any thing you like on the front end. You can create your own theme or just change something on someone else&#8217;s theme. The only thing bothers me with tumblr is. The blog can not be seen on the other side of the great wall(internet) of China, I am Chinese, I have lots of friends live in China, I wish I can share my wisdom :-), or happiness with them as well. What? You say it&#8217;s the government&#8217;s fault? Again, I do not care, I just want my posts are available to my friends who cares enough to read them.</p>http://allenhan.com/post/21411469177http://allenhan.com/post/21411469177Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:12:24 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2n87h26JM1qzkacto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>woo, xserve without drives</p>http://allenhan.com/post/21286038978http://allenhan.com/post/21286038978Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:40:29 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m08m7e0ox11qzkacto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I got most of them right.</p>http://allenhan.com/post/18588388786http://allenhan.com/post/18588388786Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:11:38 +1300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzty07YFtC1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>❤ (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://allenhan.com/post/18115958280http://allenhan.com/post/18115958280Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:02:31 +1300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto5_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto6_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto7_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto8_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto9_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3emjiHF01qzkacto10_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Sf Volt Iphone</p>http://allenhan.com/post/17278312424http://allenhan.com/post/17278312424Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:06:18 +1300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwysgEjxi1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Free cherry woot! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://allenhan.com/post/15973424864http://allenhan.com/post/15973424864Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:05:03 +1300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwa1sjXrS91qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Office pet (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://allenhan.com/post/14293905596http://allenhan.com/post/14293905596Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:31:31 +1300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw85xdu4zk1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a></p>http://allenhan.com/post/14246412217http://allenhan.com/post/14246412217Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:05:37 +1300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkyj9kYUg91qzvx7mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://jackiebird.tumblr.com/post/5351033553/arsvivendi-poseidon-undersea-resort-in-fiji-i"></a></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://arsvivendi.tumblr.com/post/5349259224">arsvivendi</a>:Poseidon Undersea Resort in Fiji</p> <blockquote></blockquote> </blockquote> <p>30,000 USD for a week for a couple….</p>http://allenhan.com/post/14235726173http://allenhan.com/post/14235726173Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:40:49 +1300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lugtrzUYDb1qzkacto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>My screenshot at 11/11/11 11:11</p>http://allenhan.com/post/12612988769http://allenhan.com/post/12612988769Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:14:22 +1300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlh4e3Vqu1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a></p>http://allenhan.com/post/11884892731http://allenhan.com/post/11884892731Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:55:26 +1300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1eqmonqN1qzkacto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Birra italiana</p>http://allenhan.com/post/11424923932http://allenhan.com/post/11424923932Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:51:58 +1300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmce7yA3Q1qzkacto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Remember this day.</p>http://allenhan.com/post/11081174881http://allenhan.com/post/11081174881Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:37:18 +1300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrnonnJMw11qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a></p>http://allenhan.com/post/10308257763http://allenhan.com/post/10308257763Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:26:11 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrnnuwakZj1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a></p>http://allenhan.com/post/10308000689http://allenhan.com/post/10308000689Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:08:55 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrnnlcNDW01qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>awesome looking salmon (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://allenhan.com/post/10307910324http://allenhan.com/post/10307910324Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:03:11 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgje7pd0Q1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>iReflection (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://allenhan.com/post/9354211569http://allenhan.com/post/9354211569Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:15:00 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnmrsnMlSo1qzkacto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Testing tumblr 2.0</p>http://allenhan.com/post/7102902141http://allenhan.com/post/7102902141Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:00 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmgpb4I5rU1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>testing (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://allenhan.com/post/6314397139http://allenhan.com/post/6314397139Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:09:04 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkaja3sIhY1qzkacto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thesis submission chocolate (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">Instagram</a> at University of Waikato)</p>http://allenhan.com/post/4975071819http://allenhan.com/post/4975071819Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:06:03 +1200