For the first time, I feel so proud of Jakarta police force. Instead of sitting around and doing nothing but accepting bribe, they have shown the exemplary conduct… no matter how miniscule it is to conserve energy and protecting environment.

Presenting to you, Jakarta Police force in inline skates.

The best part is, the police can stroll easily despite horrendous Jakarta traffic jam… or rather… a complete gridlock at certain time of the day (especially during raining day).

A commendable effort despite the fact that many part of Jakarta’s street is not exactly the smoothest street in the world. With many construction works going on regularly - or like what locals said, gali lubang tutup lubang, I am sure the insurance agency will scream at Police department (assuming the police is insured).

I took the photo from one website which I forgot the link. I feel bad for taking people’s photo without proper credit. Please help me find out who owns the photo if you got nothing else to do.

After a long period of hiatus, I guess it is time for my blog to get a well deserved minor facelift. Thus, I spent few hours during my office hours to do a little bit of housekeeping here and there. By the way, while modifying blog and its theme may not be the best activity to do during office hours, please spare me. I was quite bored.

Some stuff that I did today…

Installed the latest version of ‘Unnamed’ theme. Yes, I kind of like the theme and upgrading from 1.0 to 1.23 is really worth it (just like upgrading from Wordpress 2.1.5 to 2.5.1). Unnamed is one of my favorite theme for its simplicity … and for some weird reason… its slider.

While I love pictures and colors, ‘Unnamed’ by default is simply too plain.

Thus, like what someone has said: “if there is no way, lets make one”.

First I realized that the header can be modified from option page in term of height , width and image. So I increase the height to make it look slightly fatter - this is also so I can add a more decent picture. Yet I am still experimenting so there might be a chance I reduce the height once again. I put the decent image of Singapore river there.

Then I rearrange the widgets to give more space. Basically trying to put all the not so important stuff into the sliders.

Take note I do not want to put category or archives into the sliders because they are simply too long.

Moving on, I began to ponder : “Would it be nice if there is a widget that could display a photo or two?” before checking all the possible widgets that can help me achieve the desired result. Apparently I became greedy and wanted a widget that can show random picture - preferably in Ajax (just like www.smukionline.com)

Not just that… I also wanted the header image to be randomized. So every time people come, they will see different picture.

Apparently I could not find widgets that could serve all that I want - Either not meeting the requirements or simply broken or simply cannot be positioned in the places that I want.

So I began to surgically modify the theme to suit my needs. Looking to all possible places where I can get the desired result. Being PHP-idiot, I am really thankful to all people who have put numerous PHP tutorials on the net (which can be googled of course).

The result may not be too professional but at least I got image randomizer for header and image container on the sidebar of my blog. I intend it to be a Ajax-ified slideshow but oh well… that can wait.