GTI Chapter 45

Regular release 2/5.

Now, where’s your nationalistic Chinese story without a potshot at the Japanese?

There’s more upcoming.

Also, this week has been brutal in terms of real life work. I’m mentally and physically drained. Though I was already expecting this and was just hoping that this week will be over soon.

Also, the ads didn’t work that well. I tried yesterday and it’s just 2 cents. Maybe there’s a time needed for adjustment. Yup, I’ll leave it on for more testing. But at this rate, it won’t even cover the CDN that I’d been planning to purchase for the site.

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GTI Chapter 44

Regular release 1/5 for the week.

Where had the weekend gone to? It’s no fun when I have to work till 2am on a Sunday night. At least, hopefully by the end of this week, my schedule will clear up eventually.

I did had time, however, to catch up a bit on the NBA playoffs. Some happiness, some heartache. Also, I finally realized what word I should use to describe the Bruce Lee’s finger movement. I think I used shook or sway something like that before I realized that ‘wag’ would be a better substitute. It just never occurred to me back then.

Also, this site had ads now. I decided to test it out. I’d also compared the website speed before and after the ads installation. Previously, the site will completely load within 0.7 seconds. Now, it’s 1.4 seconds. I’m a bit OCD about loading time and server load so I’m still trying to shave things down. That’s why you won’t see this site going down due to server overload. Those messages that come out like “host unavailable” or “error connecting with database” etc unless its the server having some maintenance or anything.

The ads won’t affect the reading experience much because the words load first before the ads even begin.

Due to the hoohaa of some aggregator site copying the site’s translation onto their site, I’d installed some dummy tracking previously to track where were all the words been copied too but I found that my tracking dummy was slowing down the site slightly. It’s not visible, some 0.1-0.2 seconds, but I just want the site to be in tip top speed so I removed it. I’m still keeping the ads though for now.

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GTI Chapter 41

Regular release 3/5.

So, WordPress recently upgraded to 4.5, and I followed suit.

I don’t know if this upgrade broke anything or not. But I do know that I don’t enjoy the new linking mechanism.

Also, I learned a lot of diamond-related terminologies from this. Useless, but good to know. I really doubt I’ll ever need to bust out this knowledge though.

“Oh, my madam. The diamond on your ring is simply flawless…EX….D…Florescence….”

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GTI Chapter 38

Sponsored chapter #1.

First ever sponsored chapter. Thanks to Alvin S. of US.

If you notice to the right if you’re not using mobile, you’ll see that the Paypal button disappeared. That’s because I’m stopping all of it due to my workload at work.

I’m working 100-120 hours workweek these three weeks. Absolutely swamped from the 15th to the 21st. So, I’ll probably won’t have much time to work on the chapters. But I’d some stockpile at hand. There’s no problem continuing with my current schedule.

So, as appreciation for my first ever sponsor and because I stopped receiving now. I’m clearing out the queue and put out a new chapter. The Paypal button will be back up by the last week of the month.

Thanks again Alvin, appreciate it.

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