Gary Teh

One of my cousin just came back from China, apparently before she came home the locals gave her a bag of walnuts. My cousin’s family having no idea how to eat walnuts decided to give it away. So it ended up at our place.

There it sat on my dining table. Until of course, who else but Alena caught sight of it. Hence the walnut eating campaign started. There she sat with my mon on the dining table, the of them started cracking and munching away.

I got curious so I decided to join them after a while. Apparently these walnuts could be categorized into two groups. Those with smooth surfaces and those with not so smooth surfaces.

All the while just picking the first one off the top my fingers could get on, I picked out the smooth ones. They cracked easily.

It was until a few walnuts later that I chanced upon this particular walnut with very very textured surface. It looked almost like a piece of art.

“Yummy “, I thought to myself “I wonder how this one tastes like.”

Hence I put it under the nut cracker. It wont bulge. Despite having applied the same pressure as I did the others. It was a tough nut to crack.

I guess it does require some science to crack this particular nut. Taking it out from the nut cracker, I examined the nut in closer detail. After some long and hard thinking process, I concluded it was best to crack it in the middle where the fault line was.

Through indeed it cracked, however that was not the end of this nut cracking campaign, the flesh was so well protected by this tough out husk that it required more subsequent cracking before one could get at the flesh.

Haha, funny how come a simple walnut eating experience could turn so scientific so fast.

I am currently helping Satheesh source for digital photoframes which allows for touchscreen as well as open API programming. Apparently after exhausting all the search results over Google, I realize there are actually none in the market. Ouch!

It seems while smaller gadgets like Iphone and the Android phone offer these functions, most currently existing gadgets don’t. I suddenly got me thinking, what is the possibility of assembling one such hardware, the corresponding operating system and the specific software that allows this functionality.

Perhaps Google or Microsoft might discover this as an interesting untapped market and build a light operating system for this. Then again perhaps not, in the case of Google.

I think the installation of a Linux box on such a system might work. Then again it leaves me thinking of the hardware aspects of it. Well that really is foreign territory then.

During a conversation with Jim, a few weeks ago, he mentioned how sub domains could actually be captilized and subsequently monetized. Having thought long and hard about it, this idea suddenly occurred to me.

The most important about domain names is not really how cool it sounds but rather how closely it matches a set of keywords very commonly searched but not much competed for.

I think ThingsToDoSingapore.Com was such a case. Just yesterday, while researching on google keyword tool, I chanced upon another new set of keywords Things Fun To Do, and hence I created a new site. ThingsFunToDo.com.

So why spawn all these site, think of it as investing in real estates. While most physical real estates are very expensive and allows you an ROI of in best case scenarios 100%, domain names are difference, costing as little as just $20 per year, it is like buying a vacant lot. What you do on this lot really determines its selling price after. Even a subsequent selling price of $2000 would mean an ROI of 1000%.

So why not go for it? The game plan thus is to generate content that reinforces the positioning of the domain name, thus over time, increases the ranking of the site on major search engines.

Once thus done, you would then have on your hand a cash cow which you could start milking. The easiest way is to put up the lot for sales at a premium price. However another even better way is to actually, sublet out tiny plots of that virtual lot and become a land lord. Why not? This will really ensure a nice and comfy income in the long run.

After talking with Peter the other apparently it seems I need a chunk of code which I could use to list out the sub categories in my wordpress photography system over at photography.name1price.com

I found this chunk of code over here

if (is_category()) {
  $this_category = get_category($cat);
  if (get_category_children($this_category->cat_ID) != "") {
    echo "<h1>Subcategories</h1>";
    echo "<ul>";
    wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=0&title_li=
&use_desc_for_title=1&child_of='.$this_category->cat_ID);
    echo "</ul>";
  }
}

This is from Yoast

Let’s see if it is what I am looking for.