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Foursome Update
1) Another one rides the bus
I was going home, so I took a bus to Kotaraya from Bintang Walk. I got on the Metrobus, was the first one on, and sat in front. The bus filled up and the conductor collected from the back, as the bus drove there. Halfway through the crowd, he stopped collecting. I didn’t know why. The people around me were also holding change. Upon reaching Kotaraya, I quickly got off. The bus blared its horn loudly, but there were no obstructions in front. 🙂
Ironically, I had only 30 sen, and I needed to break change, so I went to McDonalds to get a vanilla sundae cone. The cashier gave me notes so I told her that I needed coins to take the bus. She gave me lots of 5 sen coins! (She didn’t have much of anything else.) So I got a free ride and lots of coins!
That reminds me of the time I was mean to a couple on the bus. More Evilness! I also wrote An Ode To Public Transport.
2) By popular demand
Here’s the link to a great, fun activity when you’re waiting or walking around aimlessly in shopping malls staring at PDAs (Public Displays of Affection) – The Dot Masterplan! Speaking of which, I’ve also accumulated 10
You can have my private number…
New Quotes!
“If you gave me a dime for my worries, would I give change?”
“Reverse psychology may backfire.”
“Hate is too easy to propagate.”
New pictures!
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The non-consequential update.
I’m sleepy, tired, cold and waiting.
I’ve broke off my addiction to Spider Solitaire, I think. While waiting for the connection, I’m resorting to ZSNES, an emulator that lets you play Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom as it is known around here) games on your PC. I’ve gone through all 95 levels of Super Mario World. 🙂
Where’s everybody? I mean, the blogging people. Nobody bothers to reply to my comments anymore. It seems like the moment I slag off and bask in offlineness that everybody stops visiting me. I’m still alive (though ICQ, and then ICQ Lite, seems to hang a lot lately.)
I’m scared. Feeling threatened. Something’s coming over the horizon, the orange skies, about to engulf my place. Everybody else will like it. Heck I like it too, but it’s disturbing because it’s taking over what I had. Even then, what I had was because they had no other choice. Now something better comes along. Can I roof them and cloud them from the great orange, or do I provide something better?
Next week, I’m going to do my research on it. What does it have that I don’t? Lots. What can I do? Lots as well. Not so soon, though. My exams are next week and I’m even less prepared than before.
In the meantime, I’ve watched James Bond’s latest adventure, Die Another Day. Wow. Seems the writers have given him a chance to whoop xXx‘s derriere, with snowcapades, fast cars and women. There were a lot of elements you wouldn’t have expected to see if not for xXx. Heh. Vengeance! Sure it doesn’t beat the Americans at being ‘X’-treme but Bond’s gotta be Bond still.
I’ve also gotten myself an A4Tech wireless (radio frequency) optical mouse. I’ve been splurging on computer hardware lately. Sadly, it lags in the sense that sometimes it doesn’t accelerate as it should. My only consolation is that it comes with a USB charger, and the mouse can be charged with a Nokia charger as well! That would also mean that my Nokia can be charged using the USB charger! Ah the convenience. 🙂 Now I don’t need my wall-socketed AC/DC adaptor. Now I can predict calls while charging, with the aid of two monitors to fuzz out when calls come in!
That reminds me. I gotta install Windows 98 on my old PC. That would be a problem considering it doesn’t have a floppy nor CD-ROM drive. I’ve been procrastinating shifting both drives from my PC to that one just to install. Heck I’ve been procrastinating burning CDs. Lazybum I am.
SQL Sonnet
Column, row, table in a database
Field, record, table it’s also known as
Normalization reduces space waste
Indexing reduces the searching stress
Primary keys and foreign keys help link
Some tables together logically
Before change the DBMS must think
Of constraints because orphans are messy
If you screw up you can try to roll back
Provided you’ve committed old changes
Otherwise you will notice that you lack
The important data of old ages
If this techie talk sounds fictitious, well
It’s as real as letters S, Q and L
P.S. My exams are next week. The answers I seek.
Hardwarephile Meets Videophile
I’ve added 3 new Quotes!
Suggestive directness: “If you didn’t beat around the bush, I wouldn’t have wanted to know what lies behind it.”
Vain spotting: “Is it a small world, or are we getting too popular?”
Suggestive generosity: “Free rides on me!”
Here’s a continuation from my previous blog post about my new Geforce 4 and 19″ monitor!
I’m getting a better 6962 points (though my system is expected to get 5 digits) in 3D Mark 2001 Second Edition now. Updated my drivers and AGP drivers, but it’s still reported as a PCI card! Weird.
I’ve gotten myself a male-to-male (ooo…) RCA cable to connect my Geforce 4 to my VCR. Coolness! However, there are problems:
– the TV is a 14″ while my monitor is 19″. 😛
– the TV’s refresh rate is 30 Hertz while the monitor’s is 100 Hertz.
– the TV is mounted high above like a wall fan.
– the TV makes a noisier, high-pitched sound than the monitor.
The good parts:
– images are sharp, though text is not readable.
– the TV encoder in my Geforce 4 supports up to a resolution of 1024×768.
– if the views are cloned, the screen with the lower resolution (in this case the TV) can have a panned screen! That means moving the mouse from one corner of the screen to the other results in the TV’s view moving.
– I can record demos… literally! Now to get some blank VHS tapes for my VCR… 😉
Turning 19
Yessiree in less than a month I will turn 19 (hint to those who know my birthday via ICQ), and some other things turned 19 recently, like my monitor! (No, it’s not that old. :P) I got myself a Princeton EO950 19″ conventional CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor (that’s what they call non-flat monitors…)
It is ultimately, SWEEETTT!!! 1600×1200 at 85 Hertz is astonishing. Everything is so small! (In a good way.) I even tire myself moving my cursor from corner to corner!
Now that’s not to say that the monitor is perfect. Being a not-so-branded brand (or at least not well-known) there were some issues. For one, I forgot to check the box and the monitor quality. They sold me a display unit! A crappy one, at that – shadows, occasional diagonal stripes, trace lines to the left and right of icons, patterns and ripples, bright edges, etc… not good. I returned it for a new unit, and this one’s better, but it still had little trace lines and ripples. Though I think the ripples look nice, plus they only come up at anything higher than 1024×768!
There’s another new gadget in my small world – an MSI Geforce 4 Titanium 4200 with 128 Megabytes of DDR RAM!
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I Can Hear Your Reply…
Hey you. I’ve been busy not blogging, having progress tests going on throughout the week. Where’s everybody? Why isn’t anybody replying any of my posts? Are they not interesting enough? Do they not spark a certain commentative element in you? 😉
Anyway, I’ve been tinkering around with some fancy code that will let me know when I get a blog comment or Guestbook entry. How? By SMS! I also get an email of the comment. I can then dial in to my mobile phone network and have it read aloud the email! (Yep, it’s advanced enough to have a text-to-voice converter!)
Oh, before you leave, have some quotable Quotes!
Honest to goodness lecherousness:
“I’m not into nature, but I like the birds and the bees.”
In response to my lazy attitude with my scholarship:
“Why pay attention when you don’t pay anything?”
On rock boybands (though I have nothing against them):
“The copy may look better than the original.”
Finally, a call to all – indulge! Don’t resist!
“Entertain the thought that entertains you.”
I love the last quote. It’s like a chocolate ad or something, but it was actually inspired by me wasting money on a informational platter that had only its cover working. I did feel guilty for buying it, and I threw it away just yesterday. 🙂
I Keep On Falling…
Click here to download q3albdm4a! (326 KB)
My frustating q3albdm4 map has been further upgraded to q3albdm4a, with ramps and invisible walls that make it easier for you to run backwards and shoot and not fall into a black void! These models and maps are again downloadable from my Models page.
Rebel and Live Again!
Immune to your tune, I commune;
Despite your respite I invite;
Your crooned balloon blewn, popped too soon;
My sight tight, I fight for my plight.
Anyway, I’ve restored all my old guestbook entries as well as my blog entries. I wish I could salvage the comments too, but I failed. Sorry. 🙁
Thanks to the following for helping me with their caches:
Evan (who does not wish to be linked), Cara, Nina, Caryna and Paul.
PY, although she visits really often, has a screwed up cache and had quite old archives! For that, I had to be extra thankful. Gratitude has been justly promised in a free lunch. That’ll teach all of you who didn’t help me to! (Besides, I just got my salary.) 😛
For the finishing touches, I used Google. This is my make-or-break search engine – if I cannot find something with it in the first page, I would give up. The best part of it is that it kept cached versions of pages it visits, so I referred to those!
A strange discrepancy occurred, though – Yesterday when the accident happened, the caches had my site until the end of August. Today when I checked, it had till the start of October! That must mean that the cache was updated yesterday, right? Nope. If it did do so yesterday, it would have more than just the start of October!
I even went so far as to download the database and attempt to open it in Internet Explorer. (Extension change.) I got a lot of interesting text in between delimiting fields. Stuff relating to flooding, chemistry, politics, spam, and even a Malay quote! I hadn’t encountered the text in any of my database tables, much less delete it, so I wonder where it came from. Maybe Brinkster, my current website host, had a faulty database driver? I searched the Malay quote in Google but got only one proper hit, and get this – the site was on Geocities and was a HTML file! That is scary.
Now for that person who posted not-so-sweet-and-cheery things in my website: I know who you are. Your “English” style is very distinct, and I know where you were referred from. If you don’t believe me, email me and I’ll furnish you with details on how I found out.