In a few hours’ time it’s going to be year 2007. The year of A-levels. The last year before National Service.
This year’s been great. Had lots of improvements physically, emotionally, and on coding. I’d like to thank Mr Ho in particular for helping me out a lot this year.
With this, happy new year! I’m too lazy to type something longer.
IDA claims that internet access in Singapore is largely back to normal.
True, for general HTTP surfing, I’ve not had much problems. But the story is different with FTP. FTP access to all the dreamhosts servers are still crawling slow. I swore I could have pulled off all my hair waiting for the transfer to complete.
For those of you wondering how the submarine fibres in Asia are linked, this is an interesting read.
Summary post on 2006 (warning, a long post is expected) to be written shortly.
This is a followup from my previous post.
I’ve been wanting to wipe out my PC and reinstall everything all over again for a while because of the terrible and mess the system has landed up in after one and a half years. I kept procrastinating because it was too troublesome to backup everything and I thought I would do it next year when Vista came. Some higher powers decided to send me a telegram telling me to “REINSTALL YOUR WINDOWS” this morning.
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Chkdsk Fixing the errors on the filesystem I was saved from a close call of losing all my files, programs and settings on my pc.
I woke up to find my brother complaining of a stop error and when i reboot, the system won’t boot. I loaded up the windows recovery console on the windows cd and fixed the boot sector. Really close call to re-installing the operating system.
Just to play sate i did a check on the file system.
EDIT: In the end I needed to reinstall windows after all… the files were indeed corrupted. Well, the PC needed a makeover anyway.
Been a while since I ranted on Mobile Phones but wait, I saw a whole page advertisement at the back of Straits Times main paper today by Nokia advertising three products that is from Nokia’s branch of “music phones” with their music editions of phones (the other branch being the “internet edition” phones): the N70 Music Edition, N73 Music Edition and N91 8GB.
Nokia seem to be liking to bundle “special editions” of their phones these days. Among all these, I’d say N70 Music Edition is probably not worth getting. N73 is good for its camera while N91 is good for its Wi-Fi and the huge 8GB hard drive. But alas, I think it would be better off getting N95 next time when it’s released for the same price.
Starhub has unveiled its 100 mbps broadband service yesterday, albeit at a pretty bad time, but nonetheless being the first provider to bring 100 mbps to consumers in Singapore. They’ve also upgraded their existing customers speed.
I’ve been using Singnet ever since I’ve started getting an internet connection. I wonder why I still stuck with them even after so much has happened. They ought to learn a few things from their rivals. Instead of overpricing their subscriptions and coming up with new connections that are faster and cheaper , why not take the starhub route and upgrade existing customers’ speed? Imagine how many happy customers that would make! Or are they only concerned about their profits? Look around any local forums and you can see a lot of Singnet users complaining.
In other news, someone has hacked his way Nokia Lifeblog to enable for WordPress. Since I haven’t exactly found any mobile blogging application to my tastes, I guess I will try this out for a while.
P.S.: I was typing this post when my internet connection went down again and I couldn’t access the site. For those of you who have the same problem, proxy servers will save your life.
Tags: Mobile Phones, MoBlog
The Taiwan Earthquake that happened last night disrupted the internet access in Singapore and Asia-Pacific.
Access to foreign sites were either very slow or not possible. Things seem to have been improving now since I’m typing this post here. Some self-centered Singaporean over at this forum have, as expected, started complaining all sorts of things about how they can’t play their on-line games or access their favourite sites. Please. Think about how the casualties of the earthquake instead.
It’s interesting to see how a disruption of the internet connection can cause us. We’re too dependant on technology it seems.
So, how was your Christmas? Did you enjoy that party you went to? As for me, I spent the whole day at my cousin’s place, not partying or anything. Christmas to me is just like another public holiday. I don’t think I’ve celebrated it once before though.
Digital Media Winners and Losers of 2006 is an interesting article. Might be worth your 5 minutes reading.
On a side note, I wonder if this comment is a spam or not. Clearly, it has nothing to do with the post in question but it doesn’t seem like some post a SPAM bot will make. Tricky.
A Merry Christmas everyone!
I went to watch the movie The Holiday yesterday. Not my type of movie but I kind of enjoyed it, at least the humour within, much unlike the terrible You, me and Dupree. The crowd at Orchard was just terrible. I wonder how it’s like right at this moment, 10+ minutes to Christmas.
Today, on Christmas eve, I went on a shopping spree, including stuff that weren’t for me. I had a haircut, followed by a trip to Sim Lim to buy 200 CD-R and 50 DVD-R for CCA usage. Gosh, that was SO heavy and expensive (SGD 87). I almost died along the way carrying that home. I bought myself a Bluetooth adapter and for my cousin a network card and a thumbdrive (a pretty good looking one if you ask me).
Walked around for a long time before settling on a pair of Niké shoes. Believe it or not, this is my first piece of Niké merchandise I ever bought. The rest belonged to Adidas and New Balance etc.
And later on, I bought another jacket and a new shoe bag.
Phew, remind me not to shop at this time of the year again. The crowd is kinda huge. I still need some shorts and pants. That should be all that’s left to get.
Presenting to you Snap, a new kind of search engine. A web 2.0 kind I would say. A refreshingly new search engine that is different from the text-based Google or Yahoo search. It certainly uses Web 2.0 techniques to the fullest. Try it and see for yourself!
I tried to add their “Snap Preview” thing on the blog but it doesn’t seem to work well. I reckon it’s got to do with the scriptaculous script I use perhaps…
Tags: Web
I took a trip down to my aunt’s place at Clementi today (which is almost at the other end of Singapore from where I live) to take a look at my cousin’s PC, which was apparently not working. (It turns out that it was because the video card was loose.)
Anyway, while I was walking from the MRT station to her house, I passed by some places that gave me some kind of a feeling of nostalgia. I used to live with my aunt when I about 4 I think. Walking through those places really made me feel how quickly 10+ years have passed.
My cousin had an operation on her knees (because of reasons I can’t remember) and can’t walk around. So she had to stay at home everyday for a few weeks until she can walk fully again. She just returned from working in New York.
She lent me the box set of Lord of the Rings Extended DVD which she bought at only USD 40+! I was simply amazed! Damn, I want to get my hands on this box set for myself! It’s sold at (I think) nearly SGD 200 at shops locally!
On a side note, my recent attempts at combating SPAM bots seemed to have worked. I now use two plugins for this purpose: Bad Behaviour to block any spam bots from sucking my bandwidth try (i.e. blocking their access) and Akismet to filter any comments that bots which has passed through the first layer of defence post.
Somehow, this seemed to have worked to a pretty large extent – only 6 spam posts in two days compared to the 30+ per day from before!
Anyway I’ve added some form of advertisement on the site, powered by Adsense. I would call it a subtle way of placing it because you only see it if you view the posts on its own page. (i.e. when you click on the post title link.) I wonder how much I can earn by placing it like this. We shall see.
Tags: Lord of the Rings
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