about a square peg in a round hole

About about a square peg in a round hole.

about a square peg in a round hole first incarnated on the world wide web as about a square on October 29th, 2004, via Blogger, unofficially parking on victoriantheatre.com.

On the suffocatingly hot afternoon of January 9th, 2006, square resolved to go ahead with a long overdue webproject, codenamed bladibarsket. So about a square migrated to a new domain, adopted a new webhost, reformatted to WordPress, got a face lift as well as an informal phrasal verb for a title; ready for inclusion as a bladibarsket module.

It is, and always have been, a repository of square’s thoughts, rants, writings and observations.

WHOIS square?

square is Lee Yee Yang, a Malaysian-born Chinese young adult male, whose name reads in the following format:

[last name][first name(s)]

Last name first and first name(s) last; couldn’t be more straightforward. He was first monikered square by Sums as a bastardisation of his first name initials:

Yee Yang = Y. Y. = Y² = Y squared = why_square = square

A stereotypical Jack-of-all-trades-Master-of-Jackshit, he is a LL.B (Hons) graduate from Cardiff University, Wales, working as a chef at an Auckland cafe while on sabbatical from his position as Resident Producer of Victorian Theatre Company.

He has been a theatre producer, waiter, theatre director, lighting designer, legal intern, web designer, bartender, graphic designer, research assistant for Thompson Associates and Mindvault, as well as a pastry commis chef at the St. David’s Hotel & Spa, Cardiff.

He was also co-author of an international symposium paper entitled Local and International Experiences in the Localization of Technology (2004) and an undergraduate LL.B dissertation entited What did it really mean to say that the Ecclesiastical Law of the Church in Wales shall cease to exist as Law? (2005)

His hopes to “revert to being a full-time student by joining the LL.M program at Auckland University as well as qualify to practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand by end-2006″ have now been indefinitely put on KIV, probably because he still adamantly refuses to lead a legal career.

Instead, he is set on studying for a Graduate Diploma in Arts (in Drama & Theatre) at Auckland University, and hopefully scoot off to NIDA in Sydney in 2007 to do another three years in Arts Production. Maybe then, he’ll put some thought about a semblance of a career.

He is currently single and more than a little worried about the karma of dissing an internet-based prediction back in the late ’90s that he would meet three special women, fall in love with all three (not simultaneously of course), and sleep with all three (again, not simultaneously, alas). Unfortunately, nothing else was said; would he:

• live happily ever after (arguably with the third woman?); or
• end up a 60 year-old decrepid hypochondriac;
• die prematurely due to a mutant strain of avian bird flu (thereby avoiding the delibitating effects of having lung cancer from smoking one too many Marlboros); or
• realise he’s a closet queen with a fetish for cross-dressing transvestites with pet chihuahuas after fathering 3 children out of wedlock; or worse still,
• turn out to be a successful lawyer.

Agnostic as he is, the fact is that his third serious heterosexual relationship ended 18 months ago occasionally keeps him awake at night in his cold companionless single bed. If you’d like to offer him solace, or sponsor his therapy sessions, or sign up as his 4th Lady, feel free to do so. The sooner the better.

On codes, design, plug-ins and more

XHTML
about a square peg in a round hole is not yet coded with Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Click here to see the embarassingly large amount of errors it contains. These errors were not committed in a bid to rebelliously flaunt the importance of web standards, but simply because I’m still a novice coder who doesn’t know better.

CSS
about a square peg in a round hole uses Cascading Style Sheets (courtesy of the folks at Binary Bonsai) for all layout and formatting, so if it looks weird (but hopefully readable), you’re in need of a major browser update. If you’re using Internet Explorer (Bah! Humbug!) you’re beyond help.

Design
about a square peg in a round hole is designed using a customised version of Binary Bonsai’s K2, one of the slickest and more functional WordPress themes around.

Plug-ins
To be updated.

Production
about a square peg in a round hole is made on an 1.8Ghz PowerPC iMac G5 with 1GB DDR SDRAM, running Mac OS X ver. 10.4.4 over a 2MB ORCON BitStream connection.

Software
To be updated.

Photography
To be updated.