Category > News

New Writer - Welcome Alabranma

When good friend alabranma told me he was travelling again to Japan, I decided to ask a favour to help write some reviews on some of the more interesting places to visit. He’s a true-blue academic pursuing his interests in all things Japanese and has made trips almost annually to some pretty interesting locations.
I was [...]

Continue reading

Where2Makan? gets a Mashup with Yahoo Pipes

When I started Where2Makan?, I always had the intention to properly note down the makan (food) places and geo information (latitude/longitude) so that I could properly visualise the locations on a map later. Have been using custom fields in Wordpress to achieve this and finally found time to hack together the RSS feed to get [...]

Continue reading

Switching to Advertlets

After hearing so much about Advertlets and seeing their cool widget that can both display advertisements, polls and feedback form (very cool coding work guys), I’ve decided to drop AdSense and NuffNang from the site. Shall use Advertlets here while still continuing NuffNang on MichaelYuhui.com so that I can get a good comparison on what each has to [...]

Continue reading