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Alright, I know I should be studying… but just couldn’t resist putting those books down. Yeah, I know, it’s the return to this stupid grey/shite-green layout again, but it’ll just be temporary… at least until Jurisprudence is over tomorrow!

EDIT: Well, revamped the site to look like it was before. Well, partly. The new background is some Church next to the Doge’s Palace in Venice from my Italy trip. Also added the “Recent Links” featurette by the side under the photoblog. That’ll save us some time needing to type out full blog entries instead of just putting up links of note while we joblessly scour the internet. Other than that, else is all backend and proprietary markup stuff which nobody but myself would be concerned about.

Oh, and say welcome to my soon-to-be housemate (hopefully) – Lucas!

Yee Haa i have officially ended my schooling in KTJ, but also have officially started EXAM TIME ! Sigh…. Looking back on the years gone by, i cant wait to join Zaaba in Manchester, and yet i will be reluctant to leave my home, Naquiyuddin. With the introduction of the new bapak, the choice of leaving has been slightly easier… He’s a Wierder Coughlan without the hot daugher! oh well, i think its time a posted some pictures…

Further Pure B set…

Ohhh dickkkkkkyyyyy….

The Real Reason im panicking for Computing!

Bah enough bandwith usage… Oh wait wait….

You know what xlife? Bass is Fun! Incubus – Talkshows on mute (6th form entertains)

More next time people… Btw have you been to Happy tree friends yet? If not… PLEASE go and watch it… i dont know if its me being a sick puppy, but i find the movies pretty funny! hhahaha I’m sure xlife would love em… =)

Till next time…

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW X5 advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the shepherd, “If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?”

The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers: “Sure. Why not?” The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer. He connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location. He then feeds it to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. Then the young man opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and turns to the shepherd and says: “You have exactly 1586 sheep.”

“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep,” says the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then the shepherd says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?”

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”

“You’re a consultant,” says the shepherd.

“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”

“No guessing required,” answered the shepherd. “You showed up here even though nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked and you know nothing about my business. Now give me back my dog.”

-from bkdesign.ca

The mailman woke me up today, cause this couldn’t get through the hole in the door.

What is it you ask ? It’s a bunch of photos I ordered online, 60 of them to be exact.

Why am I telling you this ? Because I only had to pay the postage, the prints were free.

Cool eh ? This website offers 50MB of free storage for photos. You can share your photos and you can upload them using FTP, hotlinking seems to work… Plus there’s no file size limit. And if you register before the 13th of May, you can get 60 free prints just like I did(you just pay for the postage).

Why am I not taking advantage of this and opening multiple accounts ? Well… It did say somewhere that the offer is only permitted to one per household… Too bad… Or not I could have had all my pictures printed…. for free…
Will try to get my housemates to open some accounts and see how it goes… =)

edit: hotlinking only works on the resized 400×300 photo, I guess you could pass your login info around if someone else really wanted to download the full pics…
edit: Your quota is also upgraded to 200MB after you place your 1st order. Which is what you’re gonna do anyway if you wanted the 60 free prints.

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Less than 2 weeks to go before exams hit the fan. Yes, I know I got that expression wrong, but exams = shite; but I’m sure you knew that already.

Its 10th May today which means Happy Birthday <3 <3 <3 Rozanna 21 years of age really doesn’t yet cut the mustard to officiate ‘makcikdom’, but we all love you anyway.

Lots of things happening lately. Went to watch the United v Chelsea match at Old Trafford last Saturday. It was a good game, but could have been better. United played as if they weren’t contesting for that covert 2nd Champions League auto-qualify spot. Gronkjaer’s goal was superb. It was the shot you would have taken in Winning Eleven, the kind that beautifully curves into the goal net, the shoot-now-or-forever-miss type.

And then there was Nistelrooy’s botched penalty. What a bummer. The stand all around me were waiting for screams of adulteration but the only words muttered soon afterwards were, “Fuck it”. Lucky he managed to clich the equalizer.

After the game, I was off to Altrincham (doko?!) to buy XBoxes which were selling for 74.99 at Sainsbury’s. Apparently, Sainsbury’s are out to clear their stock for god knows what reason hence the price crash. This wasn’t advertised BTW, its either you had to come across one by chance (yeah, whilst shopping for groceries?) and enquire for a price check. Some shops still had the 144.99 price tag on them, and you’d only realise they were selling for half the price at the cashier.

So how did I come into knowledge of this fantastic deal? http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk! Check out the Bargain Bucket forum often enough and you’ll find bargain deals there you’d never knew of. Like this 4x Datawrite Yellow Ritek-Dye 25 bundle spindle. Which is like ***WTF***?!? Ritek apparently manufactures the best DVD-R dye to my knowledge (works great on PS2s hehe) and a 25 bundle spindle at that price is like phwwoooaarrrr. I got my Riteks for 18 for 25 discs for god’s sake in Rusholme.

So me mates and I bought an XBox each, bring the tally of video game consoles to this humble abode of mine to 3 Silver PS2s, 1 White PS2, 1 Black PS2 and 3 XBoxes. On 4 TVs. A thief’s paradise, touch wood…

Anyway, you can try price match that XBox deal of mine which came with SegaGT and JetSetRadio at your local Gamestation, Dixons or Comet. Tried pricematching the bundle at Gamestation today for a friend of mine tapi gagal. Apparently: #1. They trade like for like. Meaning, if they don’t have the same bundle you’re trying to price match it with, they can’t do it. #2. Some Gamestations have “missing” pricematch policies. Bastards. I could have argued further, but we didn’t think it was worth our time. They should match the item on the RECIEPT not the actual bundle itself. I wouldn’t expect Gamestation to carry a 2 year old bundle. Baka…

But Dixons and Comet lagi bengong. Theirs is a 2 mile radius. I got away with attempting to pricematch the XBox at Gamestation because Altrincham was 9.8 miles away from their advertised 10 mile radius. Hehe! I love multimap.com...

Right now the average on my stupid quiz is 40%. Well, some of them are stupid questions and most of them are stupid answers. Here are some explanations:

***WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!***

Once upon a time I blogged on how I was looking for a new email client. At the end of the blog, I resolved that given the current status of the programs I tried, I’d had to stay with Outlook Express (“OE”). One of the biggest considerations was not being able to check my Hotmail account.

Question: Why Hotmail? Hotmail is Microsoft proprietary web-based email. Heck, even checking Hotmail on a non-IE browser nets you a different mail-checking experience. It doesn’t even offer IMAP (the ability to check email on other POP3 clients). And a farking 2MBs of space. What a shitty combination. What ‘bout email archiving? The only way you can physically backup your Hotmail account is to either: 1. forward your mails to a POP3 account and backup from there. 2. Use OE to synchronize with Hotmail your folders and then backup. Either method requires you to transfer the emails to a client sitting on your computer.

Well, the reason why I’m still stuck on Hotmail is due to the fact that my email on it is just bloody easy to recall and give out. I guess I could consider myself lucky that I netted myself zaaba at hotmail dot com. It’s a pain to redistribute a new email. So there.

Secondly, MSN. At the moment, my friends will tell you I’ve pretty much divorced myself from MSN. I’m not on it as often as I’d like (though I’d like to think I’m not missing anything big anyway). But MSN authentification needs my hotmail account.

Thirdly, Hotmail’s spam-sassination is fantastic. Well, probably because I’ve set it to the highest setting possible: EVERYTHING is Junk Mail except emails on my contact list. Works for me… but I still have to check my Junk Mail every now and again which is kinda against the whole point of a filter innit…

So given the reasons above, I guess Hotmail is here to stay… along with it’s evil M$ half-brother OE.

So enter Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox’s distant cousin twice removed. It’s a pretty package right now sitting at version 0.6. Anyway, setting up my Uni account was a breeze (I could rant all day on this one alone… NO Uni WEBMAIL?! WHY WHY WHY). TB imported all my settings from OE immediately.

Setting up Hotmail was a little bit trickier: See this article on how to get Hotmail installed on Thunderbird. So here I am now using TB as my default mail client sending out emails via those mailto:xxx links on webpages using hotmail. Cool. Archiving emails will now be a doddle seeing that emails are now saved under the .mbox format instead of a stupid M$ OE crap file extension.

But it still doesn’t solve the problem of synching Hotmail and TB. But I guess this obsession with a interchangable web-based email solution and a client based one will dissapear once I get an IMAP email account. Presumably, the frustration in redistributing my email account will be well worth the trade. Hmm… will be in search of a free IMAP email account soon with fantastic spam-killing features. Care to share anybody?

edit: Sources point me to Fastmail.fm. It comes with lots of recommendations. One grouse for the guest account: accounts must be 7 characters or more… Hmm, will consider paying for the member account :)

All of you should have by now, had some sort of experience with talking over the internet. MSN voice, Skype etc… Why ? It’s free. It probably lags, it probably won’t sound clear, but goddamnit it’s free.

Anyway, was surfing snapfiles (used to be called webattack) like I do every now and then, and found Firefly. It’s a softphone (as they call it) and you can make calls over the internet to other Firefly users. It’s free (and it’s NOT in beta), and get this… it has voicemail, and that’s free as well. Being the hermit that I am, I haven’t got around trying it with anyone yet, so hopefully you readers can try it out and tell me about it after. =)

And for those technically inclined, the website says it only uses 3 KB/s for both download and upload. And you might need to foward port 4569. And from what I can tell, it uses UDP.

Lets see… where to start…

Been using Opera for a while now. And I like it. Loving the mouse gestures and the password manager. Only reason that I still use IE is because some webpages don’t load or they look like shit.

Finally found a p2p client that has support for ALL major networks(BT,DC,ED2k,etc…). It comes with all the expected features and it even has a web interface. The catch ? There is no windows build for it… You have to do some sort of emulating or something like that. Tried a windows installer but you could only control it through the web interface, and I have to say, it was one of the most user-UNfriendly experience I’ve had in a while. Will try G2GUI soon, will see how that goes.

Oh, there’s a new virus out there, Sasser. Nice name. Anyway, Please update your windows and your antivirus definitions. If you may be so unlucky as to get infected, here are some basic advice.
-Running the command shutdown -a should stop the shutdown.
-End the process avserve2.exe and remove it from your registry, and your windows directory. More info…
Removal instructions in plain english.
Symantec has a removal tool...
Or if you’re more fond of McAfee, they have their Stinger Tool...

Anime. Innocence and Appleseed recently started showing in Japan. Very very very cool. Just watch the trailers, you’ll understand. GANTZ on the other hand is a waste of time, although the animation and soundtrack is pretty good. Gungrave also ended recently, nice ending.

Exams. Soon. Meaning that less postings are justified.

TTFN.

edit : There’s a mini-review of Appleseed at Slashdot, and there’s a DD link for the trailer in their comment section.