An Indian experience of Hong Kong

By way of this travelogue I thought of updating about my experiences while having my a month long stay in Hong Kong. Of course, before visiting HK, I had surfed through the net to know the pros and cons, their lifestyle, places to visit, local transportation, markets etc. It's good to be pre-equipped with enough knowledge and probably, this blog might come handy.

I will be breaking the entire travelogue in various parts, each covering one topic at a time.

Part 1 - Things to carry (for a month at least)
Part 2 - Places to visit (for sure!)
Part 3 - Electronics market
Part 4 - General shopping (from small to big)
Part 5 - Travelling inside and outside Hong Kong
Part 6 - Need to know and Useful links

I am not that regular in blogging my experience mainly due to time constraint and reducing lack of interest of tapping my fingers onto the keyboard. Yet, I will try my level best to complete this travelogue with as much information as possible, images, route maps, links etc. 

The Bikerni - its not masala but an upcoming female bikers club

Good to see someone coming forward with a wonderful idea of gathering like minded female motorcycle riders and form an exclusive club. Something that I was striving to achieve since a long time is coming to reality. Now they are no more confined to the pillion seat but emerging as the true passionste bike riders, The Bikerni is all set to burn the roads with high enthusiasm.

I'd recently came across their group page on facebook and liked it at very first. Recently they had their first G2G with flying colours. Surely, they gonna achieve great feats and my full support and wishes to the entire team.

Here's their fb link - http://facebook.com/TheBikerni

[Update: 8-May-2011] Got a lot of offline remarks for boasting about a female oriented biker's club. But hey, I don't care. Being associated with IBR doesn't confine me to promote "machoism" but "true sensible motorcycling". The efforts shown by The Bikerni group is one of such views which I have been trying to spread across where the female travel enthusiasts should not be confined to pillion seat only. I personally prefer my wife riding a bike along with me, but ultimately it's own's perspective. 

Resolved javascript or jquery conflict issue in IBR MyBB forum

It's been a while I've reading a lot on compatibility issue of javascript on web pages. Using multiple javascripts on a single page sometimes negates one or more of them. So the transition effect that you want to see on your website remains doubtful.

With the same issue in my mind, I started another google search this afternoon and was able to break the code. All thanks to the inbuilt feature inside jquery.min.js file that I was able to get the same transition affect on my IBR Mybb forum that the main html page has. The gist of the story is to break the compatibility issue.

Files that I used:

• downloaded latest jquery.min.js file from their website. Rather than going for the entire jquery package, I just downloaded this actual js codes and created an exact replica of jquery.min.js.
• downloaded flexdropdown.js from dynamicdrive.com. I've successfully used this multi-level navigation menu drop down script on many website. I like it since it's compatible with all the web browsers (including IE6). 
• wibiya toolbar

Now, mybb has it's own stack of jscript files inside the package. The issue was both flexdropdown.js and wibiya toolbar inbuilt javascript were conflicting thus neither I could see the drop down working nor wibiya toolbar popping out from down. However, after searching for nearly 2 hours, I got the answer. 

In order to break the conflict, upload jquery.min.js to the jscript folder of mybb along with flexdropdown.js. Now go to mybb Admin >> Template & Style >> Templates >> Choose your template >> scroll down to click Ungrouped Templates >> and click headerinclude.  Search where scripts for prototype.js or general.js are written. Right below those scripts, insert the following code: 

<script type="text/javascript" src="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/jscripts/jquery.min.js?ver=1600"></script>

<script>

jQuery.noConflict();

</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/jscripts/flexdropdown.js?ver=1600"></script>

The jQuery.noConflict() script is a feature added to the jquery jscript file. Please note that the second part of script pertaining to flexdropdown.js is only for demonstration purpose so you can place your own jscript file here. Do not forget to click any of the save buttons at the bottom.

Once done, I opened the header template and inserted all the relevant div codes to make the drop down actually work. Viola! it was a success.

What's next after creating a blogpost blog

Few things that one can do after creating a bloggers / blogspot blog of their own.

1. Custom domain hosting - If you got your own domain name like example.com, you can direct to the blogger ID. That means if you have a domain name called example.com and registered a new blogpost ID like example.blogpost.com, you can go the Settings >> Publishing and have example.com take over your blogspot domain. The instructions are pretty straight forward.
   
   If you do not have a domain name, get it registered through "go daddy" since they have got the best service and one of the best back-end administration screen to manage your domain.  Click on the godaddy image shown on the right side to register a domain.
   
2. Google Analytics - If you have an google analytics account, you can paste the analytics code in the blogger template. All you need to do is go to Google Analytics, login with you ID and once you are on the overview page click "Edit" on the extreme right of the table. Once you are there, click "Check Status". You will see you Analytics code.
   
   Just copy it >> Enter you blogger admin >> Design >> Edit HTML. In the HTML code section, find "" tag and paste the analytics code obtained above just before "". Save the template and you are good to go.
3. Sitemap - You would also need to submit your blog posts to the google webmaster. For that you need a site map. You blogger sitemap is actually "atom.xml". So if your site is called example.com, your sitemap URL should be http://example.com/atom.xml.
   
   Just login to your google webmaster account >> click the site (if you have multiple sites listed in the same webmaster account) >> From the left sidebar select Site Configuration >> Sitemaps >> Add sitemap >> type "atom.xml" in the popup box >> Submit Sitemap. Your are done.
   
   Update: if the site map is not getting submitted, please check the format of your website URL submitted in webmaster. If the site format is www.example.blogspot.com, change it to just example.blogspot.com with "www". You will have to first remove the site URL with www and add a new site without www. Resubmit the site map atom.xml and this time, it should go through fine.
   
4. Remove Blogger Navbar - Some of you get bothered due to the presence of blogger navigation bar on the top of every template. You can now remove it pretty easily - both in old and new template format. This can be accomplished by adding navbar CSS value to whatever template you are using.
   
   Blogger admin >> Design >> Edit HTML >> add the following code inside the CSS section of the template (if you are not sure search for "body {" and add this code just above it):
   
   
   #navbar-iframe {
   display: none !important;}
5. Remove Blogger Favicon: As already discussed above, login to the Edit HTML section and paste the below code above the "<body>" tag:
   

   <link href='####' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/x-icon'/>

The above list is not exhaustive and there are plenty of things one can do with blogger. In coming few days, I will be blogging more on blogging standards, blogging template, choosing the right gadgets etc. 

MGinger SMS advertisement reviews

Firstly, before you even start reading this blog, it's better you check the SPAM section of your email box and make sure that none of the MGinger emails are being blocked. My personal gmail account did that I had to finally figure out ways to get it back to the trusted list.

Secondly, MGinger is not a SPAM; rather it's a way of making some quick money recommended especially for young collegiate and students seeking for some easy pocket money. 

Recently I came across an email from MGinger in my gmail SPAM box. Though I have a habit of deleting all SPAM emails at once, somehow I thought of checking the list to see if any authorized emails are being forwarded to SPAM box or not. Though an email from MGinger support won't find much attention, but I gave it a shot. After going through their website, my perception about them changed. The guys behind this idea have nailed it at the right end and I appreciate their bend of mind as well as technology bend of mind to come up with such a great stuff.