I got my new office laptop already. It’s a Dell Latitude D630!

So, I’m saying good bye to the old pal’, IBM Think Pad T42. Thank you for being a good partner for 3 years.

The first day I received the lappie from IT, I was totally lost. It took me half-a-day to become familiar with the new Dell. And, of course I fall in love with it so much!

Dell Latitude D630 comes with a docking station, an adaptor and the new Windows Vista OS.

The Microsoft Office 2007 made me completely lost as I was so used to MS Office 2003. But, after toying with it for some times, I found MS 2007 is absolutely wonderful. I loike!

Hmm.. I must replace Window XP in my own laptop (Compact Presario) at home to Window Vista asap!!!

Little Mama’s Diary look & feel checklists:

1. Insert Logo - checked
2. Place Google Adsense Script - checked
3. Place Google Search Bar Script - checked
4. Create Categories - checked
5. Place Shoutbox Script - × ouch!!!

Arghh! Half-a-day was wasted just like that on a shoutbox script which doesn’t work… huwaaa!

Actually I got the script from Wordpress plugins directory i.e Wordspew 1.16 shoutbox.

I followed the ReadMe file closely. And, all the files were perfectly installed in the plugins folder.

But, when I tried typing an entry into the shoutbox, there was an error saying certain files couldn’t be find in my server. Erk!

Haiya… letih woo…

I was not giving up so easily. So, I tried again and again….. and again (more than 10 times). But, seems the luck was not with me.

You see, being a non-IT background lady, php scripts are alien to me. But hey.. who said an accountant can not mingle with php and html?

At least, I’m now very familiar with html codes. And, has not fear in ammending html bits and pieces.

But, for the Wordspew scripts — I raised a white flag. Enough for the day. Perhaps, I’ll try again some other day… ha..ha..ha (laughing out loud to comfort my chaos mind).

Alternative. Alternative. Hmmm.

So, I searched the web for some free shoutbox codes. I came across Shoutmix and Oggix. I go for Oggix.

The shoutbox code initially caused my weblog to twist upside down. But, my html knowledge comes in handy. A bit ammendment here and there gave me a nice looking shoutbox at the bottom right corner of Little Mama’s Diary.

Perfecto!