It's time again, one of those unpredictable days when I reach a crossroad of paths once more. Its wonderful appreciating the preparation of yester-days, how what once made out of necessity but a chore, is now of great help to myself. deja vu, I remember thinking so before. Streamlining is of great help, and proves real efficient, used to do it during S1, works for me again now.
Something else from today: CWH mentioned that he reads our blogs, doesn't come as a surprise considering how he is holding an active web presence. The fact he does means he also has time to come check out on you. You gotta admit, he's quite humorous. But his humour isn't degenerating the pace of class. Truth be told, he somehow can keep the point niners interested in class with all the funny antics, that's one thing. Secondly, he can keep the class real condusive, reason being everyone is really getting down to doing their classwork and paying attention thanks to him. Partly because of the importance of work. And simply because they want to watch on at his eccentric teaching methods which blasts the place up in laughter when all is quiet. I won't be surprised if he is doing all these on purpose, cos point nine has never ever been that quiet and noisy, and he has been quite successful at teaching, possibly better than KKoh in certain aspects. Kudos to CWH, he's one different teacher, and in a good sense too!
Lastly, UE is just forming up again. Having seen about 3 generations of existence, but mostly not under one roof, vaporware and more talk. The new direction however does seem to be rather, promising. We shall see. Meanwhile, I'll do my part and get something up.
Monday, January 31, 2005
Sunday, January 30, 2005
方針.至少走得比你還早
有些事情不知如何處理才好,有必要讓方針急轉彎180度. 新成立的ASSAs就為尋找最佳的處事計畫,帶動進入新高峰. 此外,實在不想與一些豪門再計較搏鬥下去,若有任何控狀,匆偷鳮摸狗,簌簌有話直說.
Just watched the 1993 demo of NeXTSTEP, incredible how something so modern was conceived at a time when Win95 was never heard of and DOS reigned. Astonishing, the remarkable similarities it has with Darwin based OS X. The dock bar, widgets, GUI, had all been built back then 12 years ago, and Windows Longhorn is now just coming around to perfect that by 2007, which will be 14 years since someone beat them to it. It sure takes a while for technology to transverse the ranks into mainstream. Steve Jobs was truly a visionary ahead of his time, hell to Bill Gates. But that is not to say that I'm into his personality cult, I'm highly aware Apple is still rather sly and dishonest in promoting their products. Don't be tricked. So is Dell.
FYI: Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 to form NeXT, which now serves as the foundation of OS X, before returning to retake the helms in 1997 after spiralling losses at Apple in between forced them to go back to their founder.
也許,或許, I should get a mac mini and ipod shuffle
Just watched the 1993 demo of NeXTSTEP, incredible how something so modern was conceived at a time when Win95 was never heard of and DOS reigned. Astonishing, the remarkable similarities it has with Darwin based OS X. The dock bar, widgets, GUI, had all been built back then 12 years ago, and Windows Longhorn is now just coming around to perfect that by 2007, which will be 14 years since someone beat them to it. It sure takes a while for technology to transverse the ranks into mainstream. Steve Jobs was truly a visionary ahead of his time, hell to Bill Gates. But that is not to say that I'm into his personality cult, I'm highly aware Apple is still rather sly and dishonest in promoting their products. Don't be tricked. So is Dell.
FYI: Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 to form NeXT, which now serves as the foundation of OS X, before returning to retake the helms in 1997 after spiralling losses at Apple in between forced them to go back to their founder.
也許,或許, I should get a mac mini and ipod shuffle
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
enter.drive
Been conjuring up yet more names these days, better write down before I forget them:
acintas.MOB - Media Our Business
mediatek - self explanatory
Names for some other stuff:
ACOLNO - A Crazy Organization Like No Other
CHARS - Cranky Hyenas Amicable Roaches Syndicate
acintas.Reef - Reach Forth
PICBEDON - Proof It Can Be Done
Some old names:
SORROS - Search On Request Resource Open Search
problem with the above, not really stunning names or terms. i came across someone going by nickname of simplyadvanced, real sleek name.
acintas.MOB - Media Our Business
mediatek - self explanatory
Names for some other stuff:
ACOLNO - A Crazy Organization Like No Other
CHARS - Cranky Hyenas Amicable Roaches Syndicate
acintas.Reef - Reach Forth
PICBEDON - Proof It Can Be Done
Some old names:
SORROS - Search On Request Resource Open Search
problem with the above, not really stunning names or terms. i came across someone going by nickname of simplyadvanced, real sleek name.
inspire.create
Just came back from the Singapore Youth & Media Conference. Basically was a congregation of people in the media line (but not leaders), the opening forum was just rhetoric of what has been discuessed in recent months, so it was pretty pointless. Not much to say about the front part of the day, but the Ngee Ann people I encountered in the workshops were quite a spirited and enthusiastic lot.
Now, the closing forum was the catalyst to me blogging this post. There were couple of veterans of the local media scene taking the stage, one guy was the MTV regional head who also directed chicken rice war. Demoed couple of funky public service videos produced by MTV, sure had a great sense of humor as well. The discussion then really begun, issues were about a new emerging youth demography that like many other previous generation, are pushing for change. But with the advent and aid of technology, this generation is able to put change forward at a quicker pace no other has done at before. They said, we have the opinions, but ranting on blogs, posting to forums is simply not enough. The challenge is putting it into action. The atmosphere then was fuzzy and dreamy, as though on the starting line. Especially, with talk about the local media industry, it was nice knowing as if then that people around in that hall were all working towards this goal. Anyway, you had to be there to feel it, its somewhat the same geeky atmosphere like MacWorld. Or it all might have been just my own wishful thinking. But do I care, it must come from the heart, be true to yourself, said they. I intend so.
Let others lead small lives,
Now, the closing forum was the catalyst to me blogging this post. There were couple of veterans of the local media scene taking the stage, one guy was the MTV regional head who also directed chicken rice war. Demoed couple of funky public service videos produced by MTV, sure had a great sense of humor as well. The discussion then really begun, issues were about a new emerging youth demography that like many other previous generation, are pushing for change. But with the advent and aid of technology, this generation is able to put change forward at a quicker pace no other has done at before. They said, we have the opinions, but ranting on blogs, posting to forums is simply not enough. The challenge is putting it into action. The atmosphere then was fuzzy and dreamy, as though on the starting line. Especially, with talk about the local media industry, it was nice knowing as if then that people around in that hall were all working towards this goal. Anyway, you had to be there to feel it, its somewhat the same geeky atmosphere like MacWorld. Or it all might have been just my own wishful thinking. But do I care, it must come from the heart, be true to yourself, said they. I intend so.
The Challenge
Let others lead small lives,
but not you.
Let others argue over small things,
but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts,
but not you.
Let others leave their future
in someone else's hands,
but not you.
Jim Rohn
Monday, January 24, 2005
出海口已經不遠.瞭望
今 天從 Chan Sq 得知acintas這綽號的字母倒過來拼寫(為satnica),再把尾端'a'字母插入't'與'n'之間:將演變成'satanic'.挺希奇的狡 辯,但我本身也是今天才知曉,向大家保證acintas的綽號並非通過以上方法創成.在輔導輔助課堂上,班上的座位型圖表又有了變化.有兩位朋友前後邀請 我作各戶的座伴,卻都慘遭拒絕.緣故:我仍然對某些人的居心何在存有萬分之疑問,有許多班上的是非我無法看透.只不過是座伴罷了,我棄遺了同伴.選擇的則是與無生命脈搏的窗戶,頑固默默地鎮守著我所謂光明照耀的地盤.事實上,這位窗戶守衛在這屋簷下還未找到知己或所謂真正好友.一年來,對周圍的臉孔只不過是一層細薄的認識,未曾浸透與他們的社群.此時此刻的'友誼',難道都都只不過是凭用處價值而維持的幾串聯盟.我不了解,只有滿懷的疑問,但無人能為我指導辯解.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
起盤.飛翔
萬分的捨不得,但天下毫無散之筵席;正跨越進現實世界的邊界.
獻給朋友們SYZ的一首歌:
Stefanie
曲： | 词：孙燕姿 | 编：
站在最顶端上 却失去光
曾留下的浪迹 我无法想像
一个人的勇敢 能和谁分享
喜悦後的悲伤 在没人的地方
深呼吸继续往上
我知道 我知道 也许明天会更好
对天空大声咆哮 答案我却听不到
我知道 也知道 心里的恐惧有时多过坚强
有你我不再难熬 也不再寻找
最後一场赛跑 他开始踮脚
陌生人的喧闹 一句都听不到
想飞越 他不怕高
獻給朋友們SYZ的一首歌:
Stefanie
曲： | 词：孙燕姿 | 编：
站在最顶端上 却失去光
曾留下的浪迹 我无法想像
一个人的勇敢 能和谁分享
喜悦後的悲伤 在没人的地方
深呼吸继续往上
我知道 我知道 也许明天会更好
对天空大声咆哮 答案我却听不到
我知道 也知道 心里的恐惧有时多过坚强
有你我不再难熬 也不再寻找
最後一场赛跑 他开始踮脚
陌生人的喧闹 一句都听不到
想飞越 他不怕高
Friday, January 21, 2005
續審.聆聽
昨晚有點睏所以就提早歸返夢遙
說到聆聽,我所屬的智慧心組指揮官Harry,在第二晚與我們討論了智慧心組團團結精神陷入低潮的慘劇及小 組團員們各自為何排斥領導座位.作為一個組團的 領袖不得不把自己的人格與作風上的落點洩漏至其他團員們;讓他人看投你多時所顯現的無能與惶恐.在夜空繁星的見證之下,討論會染上了一層神聖的意義.我不 知其他團員有何看法,是否如同文眶,只覺得厭倦,讓費寶貴的寢時.我個人而言,他的一番話為我開鎖了一門兩年來的心結.問到誰肯自願抗起領袖鈴鐺時,他呼 喚我們思考自己短暫的逗留中所盼望存在的意義.一些我未曾想像過會有如此念頭的臉孔這時被說服而出.這群領袖同伴們的出現,我 只能說我們當中有不少含有大志及前能者,而我開始知曉是哪幾位.
10am:正在處理照片,稍回再續,
11.40pm: 我的一大落點及優點在於短暫的記憶,所以最好還是儘早把既可能忘懷的記憶,感觸化為文字.這次營會並沒有太多出乎以外的,很感激地點及人員都非常親切,也 從中獲取了一絲新概念.智慧心組是在最後關頭,面對著一群共同敵人的雄豪心組,團隊精神才開始好轉,展現凝聚力量.智慧心組兩班所編創的歡樂歌舞表演,歌 詞對於大家來說,代表著團組的團結及幽默的氣質.昨晚與'敵隊'雄豪心組深夜襲擊我們的首腦,Bose,談了一回.原來著兩天的隊戰衝突並非我所想像的一 樣惡劣和殘暴.Bose表明他和對方團員是在清晨釣魚回來時看我們的夜間巡邏不夠積極所以才會使出如此偷鞋暗計,為的是要向我們宣示我們的保安不夠謹慎. 我知道他們並非想要存心造成任何破壞.我們在第四天襲擊他們,本以為勇士心組員在協助我們偷藏.後來才發現原來襲擊者都是雄豪心組的奸賊,襲擊事故並非依 照Bose及其他團員的意義執行.Bose等人根本毫無再次襲擊的念頭,因為他們已經在第二晚促使我們因此增設了守衛巡邏次數,我們已達成符合了他們的立 場.第四天清晨的襲擊完全是雄豪心組中幾隻黑羊私心為了讓兩組挑撥離間所幹下的好事,所以責任不賴與Bose的頭上.
This episode has been a great lesson on espionage, how the hostilities between 2 groups arises not from the work of the generals, but some selfish individuals harboring evil plans. I remember seeing this happening similarly in the movie, Red October. As for the other parts of the camp, I must say those people insisting on sleeping on the airbeds are shortchanging themselves as the grass is so much nicer, even better is the starry night-sky, pity I didn't bring my sleeping bag. I heard Bose's account of the marauders stumbling across Justin, Fengze, Daniel sleeping outside their tents, what a tale it was cos those 3 gave the marauders a good fright when Daniel kept moving in his sleep, which made them freeze there for 5 minutes in the dark thinking that the host was awake and looking right at them. The raid events sure make a good tale in the forseeable future.
說到聆聽,我所屬的智慧心組指揮官Harry,在第二晚與我們討論了智慧心組團團結精神陷入低潮的慘劇及小 組團員們各自為何排斥領導座位.作為一個組團的 領袖不得不把自己的人格與作風上的落點洩漏至其他團員們;讓他人看投你多時所顯現的無能與惶恐.在夜空繁星的見證之下,討論會染上了一層神聖的意義.我不 知其他團員有何看法,是否如同文眶,只覺得厭倦,讓費寶貴的寢時.我個人而言,他的一番話為我開鎖了一門兩年來的心結.問到誰肯自願抗起領袖鈴鐺時,他呼 喚我們思考自己短暫的逗留中所盼望存在的意義.一些我未曾想像過會有如此念頭的臉孔這時被說服而出.這群領袖同伴們的出現,我 只能說我們當中有不少含有大志及前能者,而我開始知曉是哪幾位.
10am:正在處理照片,稍回再續,
11.40pm: 我的一大落點及優點在於短暫的記憶,所以最好還是儘早把既可能忘懷的記憶,感觸化為文字.這次營會並沒有太多出乎以外的,很感激地點及人員都非常親切,也 從中獲取了一絲新概念.智慧心組是在最後關頭,面對著一群共同敵人的雄豪心組,團隊精神才開始好轉,展現凝聚力量.智慧心組兩班所編創的歡樂歌舞表演,歌 詞對於大家來說,代表著團組的團結及幽默的氣質.昨晚與'敵隊'雄豪心組深夜襲擊我們的首腦,Bose,談了一回.原來著兩天的隊戰衝突並非我所想像的一 樣惡劣和殘暴.Bose表明他和對方團員是在清晨釣魚回來時看我們的夜間巡邏不夠積極所以才會使出如此偷鞋暗計,為的是要向我們宣示我們的保安不夠謹慎. 我知道他們並非想要存心造成任何破壞.我們在第四天襲擊他們,本以為勇士心組員在協助我們偷藏.後來才發現原來襲擊者都是雄豪心組的奸賊,襲擊事故並非依 照Bose及其他團員的意義執行.Bose等人根本毫無再次襲擊的念頭,因為他們已經在第二晚促使我們因此增設了守衛巡邏次數,我們已達成符合了他們的立 場.第四天清晨的襲擊完全是雄豪心組中幾隻黑羊私心為了讓兩組挑撥離間所幹下的好事,所以責任不賴與Bose的頭上.
This episode has been a great lesson on espionage, how the hostilities between 2 groups arises not from the work of the generals, but some selfish individuals harboring evil plans. I remember seeing this happening similarly in the movie, Red October. As for the other parts of the camp, I must say those people insisting on sleeping on the airbeds are shortchanging themselves as the grass is so much nicer, even better is the starry night-sky, pity I didn't bring my sleeping bag. I heard Bose's account of the marauders stumbling across Justin, Fengze, Daniel sleeping outside their tents, what a tale it was cos those 3 gave the marauders a good fright when Daniel kept moving in his sleep, which made them freeze there for 5 minutes in the dark thinking that the host was awake and looking right at them. The raid events sure make a good tale in the forseeable future.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
必審的另覌.天空依然一樣的藍
剛不久前才告別了在大馬舉行的領導班訓練營. 這四天在體格與物質上當然沒什麼大收穫,只累計了一身蚊釘還有一顆不怎麼起眼的橡膠種子. 照相領域上則同樣沒什麼大突破: 在保守的狀態之下成功地把兩粒電池的使用期段延長上了訓練營的四天全程. 從沒想像過鄰國柔佛州除了高爾夫球俱樂部之外, 既然存有如此令人心旷神怡的草原地. 這不能說是大開眼見,而是開門見山. 在那裡, 風與雲日間不斷比武,毫無平息的念頭. 到了夜間, 風與雲則漸漸讓步給了密麻的月空與繁星. 遠離了城市的雜鬧, 大自然自然而然挺獻出了她的麗姿, 為我開闊聆聽的心.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
啟動.新篇
新的一篇以中文編寫,不需要太多的理由. 往有朝一日熟能生巧的目標前進何為天真呢?
不知何故,主機剛在啟動時便當機了,揣測可能是 USB硬件的關係吧. 距離出發畢竟還有8個小時, 恐怕SLP今晚根本下載不完. 又是星期天了,心血來潮,看了綜藝大哥大. 來賓徐建兒就說了要真正活出自我極限, 但本身不曉得眼前的幾日中是否能如此. 自己並非有什麼特殊的才藝, 但再次懈怠著相繼希望能增添多幾幅美好寫照: 離別是為延續回意永恆的華麗. 此日之行,我們數日再見.
不知何故,主機剛在啟動時便當機了,揣測可能是 USB硬件的關係吧. 距離出發畢竟還有8個小時, 恐怕SLP今晚根本下載不完. 又是星期天了,心血來潮,看了綜藝大哥大. 來賓徐建兒就說了要真正活出自我極限, 但本身不曉得眼前的幾日中是否能如此. 自己並非有什麼特殊的才藝, 但再次懈怠著相繼希望能增添多幾幅美好寫照: 離別是為延續回意永恆的華麗.
wind.frontier
ben's config is now running fine but it seems laggy at times. I could jolly well turn this place into a tech blog, which most people wouldn't understand anyways. Currently downloading SLP (Suse Linux Professional) 9.2, their ftp's flooded, its a 3.3GB download, that's what broadband is for.
Tomorrow's the LDP/OEP, I don't give a shit about it. Kal n Co' are getting real paranoid about it, seems like Liew snubbed their invitation to join their tent; which by all regards could have been a good and bad choice. Good in that, people are snubbing the Kal gang, but bad in that there are no other gangs which have empty places available, so you did probably end up with Brandon or Fengze. It seems like within the span of this week, various groups of independant closely knitted groups have evolved upon agreements for tent sharing. There's the MunSongChiang gang and Jason Liu supporters ones, the latter is likely a more spirited and happier team, which I have a good mind to try joining but likely can't get a cut. I'm still going about my rounds on making people pissed by backing out of their pre-self-conceived notions that I'll be in their league. That I have no qualms about doing so since I do not share their aspirations but no one is backing me up (Sorry Jovin, didn't bring enuff money to get you your copy). Nuff' said, time to charge batteries up.
Update: it has occured to me that future posts cld be done in chinese to mock some morons who cant read it. to add salt to injury, i will do it in traditional chinese, which i pretty much learnt from reading subtitles of taiwanese shows and it looks much better too =)
Tomorrow's the LDP/OEP, I don't give a shit about it. Kal n Co' are getting real paranoid about it, seems like Liew snubbed their invitation to join their tent; which by all regards could have been a good and bad choice. Good in that, people are snubbing the Kal gang, but bad in that there are no other gangs which have empty places available, so you did probably end up with Brandon or Fengze. It seems like within the span of this week, various groups of independant closely knitted groups have evolved upon agreements for tent sharing. There's the MunSongChiang gang and Jason Liu supporters ones, the latter is likely a more spirited and happier team, which I have a good mind to try joining but likely can't get a cut. I'm still going about my rounds on making people pissed by backing out of their pre-self-conceived notions that I'll be in their league. That I have no qualms about doing so since I do not share their aspirations but no one is backing me up (Sorry Jovin, didn't bring enuff money to get you your copy). Nuff' said, time to charge batteries up.
Update: it has occured to me that future posts cld be done in chinese to mock some morons who cant read it. to add salt to injury, i will do it in traditional chinese, which i pretty much learnt from reading subtitles of taiwanese shows and it looks much better too =)
Saturday, January 15, 2005
tribe.wise.heart
That will be our moniker for the 4 days in Haiwan, Kluang starting this Monday. It looks set to be a replica of the GEP EC of 2 years ago, likely of the same pace. One wonders who will come up with the flag for this tribe, art student Justin in his free-time, or the venerable Kaleni who likely will just buy a Survivor flag off ebay. I guess everyone's gonna bring their EC shirts (its of a nicer design than this stoopid LDP one), and it comes with the GEP insignia. We might as well boldly imprint the GEP logo onto our flag since everyone in this tribe is jeep for some discriminatory reasons on the administration's part.
One side note: Rendevous with ben and jeffbag yesterday, skeeted off to SLS to buy parts for ben's new comp. Well, his card apparently ran out of juice and had to withdraw more money. To which he asked the 5 people in the ATM queue whether he could jump-queue in front of them (he was wearing the tie on). The config totals around $2k and is $500 cheaper than BZ's slightly underpowered but also similar config which we did last month. Difference is mainly the gfx card, BZ one's a cheapo 9k6pro for $200, which isn't very modern for a year 2003 card. ben got a 6600GT after being convinced someday he will regret it like BZ, its $400, and can do HL2 in all its glory. There's also the new Video Processor on it, which will do HDTV decoding just fine, that solely is done by CPUs nowadays (you need a P4 3.2 to decently handle 1080i).
The Antec Sonata truely earns its reputation as the world's quietest case, provided you connect the casing temperature monitor wire (as we learnt from BZ's case). ben's floppy and HDD are still dud for the time, all thanks to that bleddy Bliss guy who insisted we got a SATA (which is crap to install and costs more). Never AGAIN am I going to walk into that bleddy ABNN shop and be cajoled into buying their shit!!! (pun intended) Gonna go down and fix it today, rushing to SLS again later. Its Alex's early bday partee today, partly to make up for the sad fact that his actual bday is on Tuesday when we are in camp, we shall buy him a local English copy of H+L+2 at $50+ (David's getting me Thai ones for $20 nia).
One side note: Rendevous with ben and jeffbag yesterday, skeeted off to SLS to buy parts for ben's new comp. Well, his card apparently ran out of juice and had to withdraw more money. To which he asked the 5 people in the ATM queue whether he could jump-queue in front of them (he was wearing the tie on). The config totals around $2k and is $500 cheaper than BZ's slightly underpowered but also similar config which we did last month. Difference is mainly the gfx card, BZ one's a cheapo 9k6pro for $200, which isn't very modern for a year 2003 card. ben got a 6600GT after being convinced someday he will regret it like BZ, its $400, and can do HL2 in all its glory. There's also the new Video Processor on it, which will do HDTV decoding just fine, that solely is done by CPUs nowadays (you need a P4 3.2 to decently handle 1080i).
The Antec Sonata truely earns its reputation as the world's quietest case, provided you connect the casing temperature monitor wire (as we learnt from BZ's case). ben's floppy and HDD are still dud for the time, all thanks to that bleddy Bliss guy who insisted we got a SATA (which is crap to install and costs more). Never AGAIN am I going to walk into that bleddy ABNN shop and be cajoled into buying their shit!!! (pun intended) Gonna go down and fix it today, rushing to SLS again later. Its Alex's early bday partee today, partly to make up for the sad fact that his actual bday is on Tuesday when we are in camp, we shall buy him a local English copy of H+L+2 at $50+ (David's getting me Thai ones for $20 nia).
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
wasting.passing of days
How many times as we sat in front of the computer surfing nothing but worthless sites and feeling guilty about the time you have wasted idling about. I'm not sure if this is what I'm feeling now, cos there's nothing eating at me right now. I know there's work, but I can't seem to remember any at all to bother me in the first place. To many, its a blessing to be able to be oblivious of all that piling crap, but I'll likely get screwed one of these days for it. Pay it forward. How 'bout doing work in advance for a change? Used to do that in Sec1, not anymore, work prediction ain't my forte.
Just a few days ago at Thomson Plaza, I got a good look at the Ixus40, my Ixus400 being its predecessor, is about twice thick as the 40. Its hard to play catchup with technology. I got the Ixus400 about 1.5 years ago, and its still icy cool in its celabrite alloy scratch-resistant case, which I'm sure the 40 would also possess. But the new big LCD and thinner form factor, 30% cheaper price, its real alluring.
Just a few days ago at Thomson Plaza, I got a good look at the Ixus40, my Ixus400 being its predecessor, is about twice thick as the 40. Its hard to play catchup with technology. I got the Ixus400 about 1.5 years ago, and its still icy cool in its celabrite alloy scratch-resistant case, which I'm sure the 40 would also possess. But the new big LCD and thinner form factor, 30% cheaper price, its real alluring.
Monday, January 10, 2005
faith.statis
Looks like we will be packing off to Kluang next Monday for the OEP. Shocking how close the date is. Considering the amount of trouble that occured at the last GEP EC at gunung.Panti, it will be far worse this time. Though we can expect a good skit with big laughs from Tribe Wise. Have a gutt feeling my camera battery (with spares) won't last throughout the duration and I'm likely to kick myself for missing some good shots. Such events gurantee at least 3 shots which will be good enough to post on the content-starved galleria.
Justin has just offered me a Pentium 1 for $10, way overpriced considering I got a Celeron 433 (Mendencino core) for $10 as well. Of which, the latter was legendary for its on-die cache, whereas the Pentium, however historic, is far too common-place. The ones that are gold-plated on the face like the P-Pro are however collectors' items. Forgot to retrieve the P-Pro which I got on Karan's behalf in that camcorder bag I passed to LCE this morning. So much about improving execution efficiency when I have memory lapses.
Before I forget, I should get Linux running on my old box sometime soon, servers and all. The current .Reach host hasn't proven to be very reliable, revival of the place still seems bleak due to this.
Justin has just offered me a Pentium 1 for $10, way overpriced considering I got a Celeron 433 (Mendencino core) for $10 as well. Of which, the latter was legendary for its on-die cache, whereas the Pentium, however historic, is far too common-place. The ones that are gold-plated on the face like the P-Pro are however collectors' items. Forgot to retrieve the P-Pro which I got on Karan's behalf in that camcorder bag I passed to LCE this morning. So much about improving execution efficiency when I have memory lapses.
Before I forget, I should get Linux running on my old box sometime soon, servers and all. The current .Reach host hasn't proven to be very reliable, revival of the place still seems bleak due to this.
Sunday, January 09, 2005
regroup.repurpose
Its past noon now, the sky is still dark and overcast, so much for January. But this weather won't keep up for long, June will be searing hell (which is bad). Finally finished the consolidation of my four main sites onto the front page, which have since come a long way. Galleria seems to be rather problematic with error prompts on the new server. Tried a couple other scripts, but never gotten down to using those, they just lack the speed and ease of customability as SG. Flow of visitors seem to be near the area of non-existence. I still go by the belief that content is king, but what content I have to offer doesn't seem to appeal to anyone anyway. The next few weeks would be a good time to put some thought into this [shrug].
Friday, January 07, 2005
firstcut.starting_point
Starting a blog based on the 7th iteration of my identity, thus termed IDentity7. I have other ones but they do not have the distinctive IDentity prefix that you can identify them easily by (which I prefer you don't and you likely won't).
These are times of strange tidings, various identities make better work, reconnaissance. Donning (pants of) power, literally, a good spark to the new year. But the scars of the past year (2004) linger on: most obviously the Tsunami disaster. It is unfortunate that we lived through the 4th year of the 21st century, both numbers which I consider unlucky for personal reasons. If the 5th reckoning is to be anything, it is a shadow of what that has come to pass as a reminder.
Reminder to what? I have no idea. But it just only seemed yesterday when the same instinctive skepticism and alertness struck me once again, deja vu. I can sense the wrath of the thing which I might have indirectly incurred. Having a tight eye to keep abreast on happenings around; EDMW & OGK, two entirely different worlds but enough to keep me informed. Meanwhile, .Reach still seems to be in a state of abandonment, chances of revival still remain but are slim.
Looks like the budding MPac is shaping up, but I have doubts as to whether programmes can be carried out in a logical logistic fashion. This essentially means ailing development schedules. Rounded up the S1 Discovery CP '05 video at 2AM last night, definitely not up to standard, but good enough for barely half a day's cutting. With the CCA orientation for S1 today, I'm sure we have hit a bad note in PR for the whole body present with that laggy video playback implementation. Six people that came forward to us, looked through their details, half with previous experience, reckon numbers will be down to at least 2. Things are bleak as LCE doesn't seem to have any rationally planned-out list of projects. The numbers are too many to be completed at out current capacity, which is still a paltry force even with the recruitment drive. Should cancellations occur, the pace will surely slow down, things won't get done.进退两难. Ain't hoping for too much but seems like that will have to make do as I have no better plan to offer either.
So long, apologies for the lingo, but materializing writing just doesn't come easy for me , thus attempting to alter that incompetency by posting more.
These are times of strange tidings, various identities make better work, reconnaissance. Donning (pants of) power, literally, a good spark to the new year. But the scars of the past year (2004) linger on: most obviously the Tsunami disaster. It is unfortunate that we lived through the 4th year of the 21st century, both numbers which I consider unlucky for personal reasons. If the 5th reckoning is to be anything, it is a shadow of what that has come to pass as a reminder.
Reminder to what? I have no idea. But it just only seemed yesterday when the same instinctive skepticism and alertness struck me once again, deja vu. I can sense the wrath of the thing which I might have indirectly incurred. Having a tight eye to keep abreast on happenings around; EDMW & OGK, two entirely different worlds but enough to keep me informed. Meanwhile, .Reach still seems to be in a state of abandonment, chances of revival still remain but are slim.
Looks like the budding MPac is shaping up, but I have doubts as to whether programmes can be carried out in a logical logistic fashion. This essentially means ailing development schedules. Rounded up the S1 Discovery CP '05 video at 2AM last night, definitely not up to standard, but good enough for barely half a day's cutting. With the CCA orientation for S1 today, I'm sure we have hit a bad note in PR for the whole body present with that laggy video playback implementation. Six people that came forward to us, looked through their details, half with previous experience, reckon numbers will be down to at least 2. Things are bleak as LCE doesn't seem to have any rationally planned-out list of projects. The numbers are too many to be completed at out current capacity, which is still a paltry force even with the recruitment drive. Should cancellations occur, the pace will surely slow down, things won't get done.进退两难. Ain't hoping for too much but seems like that will have to make do as I have no better plan to offer either.
So long, apologies for the lingo, but materializing writing just doesn't come easy for me , thus attempting to alter that incompetency by posting more.
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