I am... Shen

Posted by jerry Sat, 05 Jul 2003 16:26:00 GMT



Now if I could become one of those entities that this chinese word actually means… (grins)

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Just a thought

Posted by jerry Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:36:00 GMT

If me daily habit of CariGuru™-ing, that is, logging onto Cari, pausing for 0.5 seconds to check if there’s the ol’ “ding-dong” doorbell .wav as page loads (audible sign of forum instant messages from buddies in store for me), instantly hopping over to the “Internet” section, reading through each and every new post and replying 80% of them (rough estimation, real-world statisitcs might vary), (back to the topic) was billed on a per-hour and per-post basis i.e “Technical Forum Support Guy”, I’d be generating enough funds to pay part of my college fees now. =p

(in a kid’s voice) Maybe when I grow up I wanna be a real Customer Support guy! =D

Or considering the constant headaches and developing carpal tunnel, maybe not. Now, hmm… (looks for a pencil to nibble) back to my 2006th post…

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Long time no log. Now, backlog

Posted by jerry Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:49:00 GMT

Sorry for the long long long wait before this update. Me been somewhat busy these days, been meeting up over MSN with Osis, Hikaru and the rest of the team about the website’s design. Thankfully we’ve found our web design trump card, Hikaru, meanwhile the rest of us will take over web programming of PHP and MySQL for the trackers (Well actually the job’s on Bonson, but heck, the rest of us just oughta have a job title and stand around trying to look busy aight? Heh).

Over the past week or so, 10 things in general:

  1. Classes. Nuthin’ much to elaborate on, skip.
  2. Streamyx slowdown. Again no news on the site. Lousy ISPs.
  3. Watched two deliciously funny movies off Kazaa, one bout three guys experiencing girliness for a coupla days and another’s a girl experiencing manliness for a coupla days. Both feature extremly cute chicks (O… don’t start. I’m not sexist. The word’s plucked right out of the movie what. =p ) No gifts for getting it right. Heh.
  4. Holidays nearing, countdown timer currently ticking at: 5 days 18 hours. w00t!
  5. Reaching the brink of almost-bankrupt-ness. Been eating beansprouts + tofu + cheap veggies + instant noodles as lunch/dinner so many times i can’t count. Gotta pay Ah Siang 120 bucks for compensation, meanwhile housemate owes me at least 150, ex-housemate owes me 180, deduct from wallet 28.50 for textbook and 149 for buying Warcraft III’s expansion pack next week, plus a total of hundreds of bucks of bills… (presses calculator) AGH Somebody clobber me senseless… with something soft please! XP
  6. LAN exams today (read: LAN = Lembaga Akredidasi-something Negara). Y’know, mind-numbing Malaysian studies and Moral studies. Not as if studying the former would’ve made me 10% at least more Malaysian/patriotic/land-lover/bumiputera (ugh) than before, and not as if the latter would make me holier-than-thou, but ah well. We got orders from the MOE. (rolls eyeballs)
  7. Uncovered some raving bugger’s malicious intent to spread a virus through Cari, cleverly encrypted and modified to prevent detection (Bypassed my PC-cillin!). Heh.
  8. Michelle went vacation-ing at Australia for 2 weeks. Sigh.
  9. Oliver’s coming back from London next week! Looking forward to go Starbucks and cinema hopping again with the chubby lil’ chum after all these months. Bet he’s dying to see Charlie’s Angels 2. =)
  10. Nothing. Just filling this up to make a 10. =p
Now… what should I do to fill up this bloody boring weekend…

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Untitled

Posted by jerry Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:33:00 GMT

Note to self: Before wbloggar releases a new version that supports Dano, never ever touch the Template button. Or risk having the finely tuned system crashing to just one little program. Well, ’s good can still make posting work after porting over to Dano.

Apparently TMnet is upgrading the DSL line again for the n-th time in recent months, causing much grief among its loyal users in its wake at broadbandreports.com throughout the peninsula. Damn them. Surfing’s a crawl, Kazaa’s a slug, and everything else’s moving at glacial speed… Guess I’ve gotta stick to reading RSS news as the only form of “entertainment” for the day. =p

Hmm, so, a Malaysian Mensan wrote an antivirus program that fits a diskette and makes Norton look crappy. Uh, ‘Malaysia Boleh’?

Ah liked this one. ‘Twas a penguin, carefree in the South Pole. And one interesting day out of pure animal instinct it bit the hand of a human. Some bespectacled nerdy genius named Linus Torvalds. And so its likeliness spawned a super-OS that loomed shoulder-to-shoulder next to the multi-billion corp Microsoft. ‘Twas the history of Linux.

And a little something amusing to end the day. Here’s something about men’s only origami, or kokigami. With an animated gif too. lol. ;)

[ Listening to: Evanescence – October ]

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Untitled

Posted by jerry Sat, 14 Jun 2003 19:13:00 GMT

(looks at Start Menu clock)

5.00am. What the hell am i doing here still online? With sore wrists, sore back, sore neck and sore shoulders, a 7 hour-chat on MSN with Osis, and then suddenly I’m feeling like jotting of a line or two. But I can hardly think properly now… with almost incoherent muddy thoughts and every finger ligament literally creaking of tiredness… Gawd. Now i wish i could get some sleep. And from the distinct sounds of faked gunfire I’d reckon someone’s playing Counterstrike next door. Damn.

Hark! There goes a cockerel in the distance. (A cockerel in Bangsar? 0_o” ) Dawn has come, and the vampires must return to their coffins. or they will turn to dust! And so shall I return to the comfy bed too and sleep until the the sun sets tomorrow dusk, and the vampires can come out to play again…

Okay so that was total crap. Think i really should go sleep now before my mind flips its auto-turnoff switch and I crumble into a snoring heap onto the floor.

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Minor Revamp

Posted by jerry Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:31:00 GMT

Notice: Minor sections of blog under reconstruction, possible occurences of horrible CSS effects, distorted images, misaligned text, bad scripts, incoherent combinations of html tags and ultimately, error 404s. The owner will not be held responsible for any dizziness, grief, mental instability or any physical ailments caused by inappropiate publishing. Sue Blogspot instead.

7:30pm: Quick changes here and there to tidy up ze ol’ template, trashed one or two unused scripts (i.e the somewhat useless load-page script and NedStat, since it has stopped working for months now) off into javascript purgatory, streamlined CSS (a bit), dunked XHTML in favor for HTML (criticise me unprofessionalism for not supporting the W3C, but whatever. Me got plenty of chance to do xml later when i move on to b2 anyways) for the sake of simpler editing plus lesser chance of the page genearation going haywire, stuffed all the text in a table, got rid of the messy tagboard temporarily (it’ll be back asap, well, as soon as i check out how to use dhtml to generate a dynamic mini tag window. and yep, tis’ possible), deleted some almost pretty useless stuff, shortened blog post length, and will soon introduce some colours to this bland grayscale-ness. Or maybe not.

So what do you think bout this look? Ah. I heard that. That snicker. Yeah yeah, i know it still looks boring, unglamorous, monochrome, etc etc. But heck, I’m no art designer for god’s sake. Me processor’s up there can’t differentiate graphical designing from binary numbers crunching. So spare your brainjuice from negative thoughts and spend the criticism on your town council’s project in beautifying the area’s garbage bins. Or your boy/girlfriend’s clothes. Or that pile of mess in your room. Whatever.

Now if you excuse me, me got some more work to do.

11.55pm: Bah. Why re-invent the wheel? I would’ve used a php tagboard but then can’t be sure how long my DistantHost account would be allowed to stay on their servers hogging their webspace with no real content. So, popuped chatterbox it shall be, paired with Blogger’s new RSS syndication (effects are not obvious… Can’t be sure how it works yet. Gotta await new documentation from the Pyra guys) and a lil’ rainbow Sitemeter counter. Job finished, case closed.

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Bloodied scripts

Posted by jerry Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:24:00 GMT

So the DHTML Load Page script did work after all. It came out only when I was browsing using my friend’s Opera, but then doesn’t work in so-called “industry standard” IE v6.0… Sheesh.

‘Twas a rotten day. The malay rice + fried potato chips in chilli + tofu + pineapple slice in fish curry + cooked ferns (Yeah, ferns. The one you see in forests and stuff. Malays eat that for your info, and as a chinese, well, just for the heck of trying it), especially the damned ferns, some still hard and uncooked, those were horrible… Shoulda stick with original plan and ate char kway tiao (with extra ‘sea ham’, mm-mmm). Anyways rained like felines and hounds all over the place right when i was about to leave college after CSE practical exam, then have to stay in the boring place surfing on the claimed-to-be-ISDN college internet, which performs more like 33.6k, for some 2, 3 hours until a saviour friend brought me an umbrella. And that was almost 7 already. Wasted precious time… sigh…

Am goddamned fed-up with configuring nsPerl to work properly with movableType on the Apache that I’m going to swear I’ll never touch another damned Perl cgi script again. First, “couldn’t spawn child process”, then “can’t locate strict.pm”, then “can’t locate vars.pm” and then refuses to run because my Perl is lower version than 5.006? But then nsPerl doesn’t have Windows installer version for that yet, and I’d have to do it the ol’ PKUNZIP way… drats. Might as well give up. =p

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Of impotency woes and proposals

Posted by jerry Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:16:00 GMT

Damned blogspot ads are ruining my xhtml and enetation scripts again, second day in a row. =/

Anyway, attempt on installing b2 on the Apache web server was a success! And I thought installation was hard when i last tried, with php errors and database errors and an automatic installation system bug (Fantastico auto-installer is not fantastic. at all.) and all kinds of stuff. Heh. Minor hiccups at first, as there’s apparently was something wrong with mySQL, but a quick change to the “root” super-user solved it. Now I can blog at home and keep a offline personal diary… heh. Beats the entire purpose of blogging however, heh =D Meanwhile CGI-based MovableType insists on giving me a code-500 error, and a quick check with the error logs states ‘couldn’t spawn child process’... So, does that mean my MT is ‘sterile’? LOL

Sasha told me there was a stranger who popped up out of nowhere on MSN messenger, told her they were emailing each other two months ago, announced that he had come to claim her as his own, claimed that she once agreed to be his girlfriend, moaned that the girls in perak were terrible, and she’s the greatest girl he’d ever known, etc etc, fast forward mushy stuff… and proposed to her. All in one hour. And she didn’t even had the faintest spark of an idea who the heck he is. The dude must be outright desperate for sure… It’s damned amusing just seeing her reporting to me about the guy’s actions live over icq, hehe. Who asked her to be so attractive. =D

Practical exams at 3pm tomorrow, after another 2 hour session of Data Comm at 10. Off to sleep I shalt go.

[ Listening to: Train – Calling All Angels (4:03) ]

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Triad? Those chinese 'gangstah' stuff ar?

Posted by jerry Mon, 09 Jun 2003 02:43:00 GMT

Out of pure curiosity I’ve installed PHPTriad from PHPGeeks.com, which in return installs Apache Web Server, PHP, Perl, and MySQL on the comp. And without a hitch too. Not even a burp, or prompt for me to choose which directory to install to. (Well, fool-proof at best i guess) Now I can finally test install Movable Type and various scripts on the PC without needing to go through the tedious process of booting up CuteFTP, racking my brains to remember that 14-character password, uploading the few megabytes of files, chmod, and cross fingers doing a quick prayer as I invoke the script installation page. But the fact that just running the mySQL database eats up a whole 30++mb chunk of RAM makes me gulp and wipe some cold sweat off me forehead (RAM!! I gotta buy more RAM!!).

Data Communications lecture at 2pm (get to see spiky-hair Mr Matthews, lol), meetup wif Kavix by 1pm first to discuss on the subject to write about on our Data Communications poster project. After class get back to installing MT on the PC and take it for a test-drive, then afterwards go and do my “guru” thing on Cari for charity’s sake.

20 mins left, better not sit here idly or i’m gonna get trashed. =p

[ Listening to: Foo Fighters – Times Like These (4:28) ]

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w00t!

Posted by jerry Sat, 07 Jun 2003 14:19:00 GMT

Woohoo… one day past hellish engineering exams, a 48-hour deadline to pass up a refined php script for somebody’s cousin’s master degree’s project (plagiarism at work!), plus a forum meeting to discuss setting up malaysia’s first BitTorrent club site, plus more than 8 hours of sleep per day (finally!) I couldn’t have possibly felt better! Now, gotta look up on how to install MovableType first…

Meanwhile here’s some sites that you can legally steal those cute little ‘Powered by [something]’ buttons from!
Steal this buttons!
Kalsey’s Button Maker
or get the php script from minimal verbosity.

And speaking bout scripts, see the ‘Listening to’ thingy at the end of this post? It’s a plugin for wbloggar to use. Available in 3 different flavours: Winamp 3, Winamp 2, and Windows Media Player. Go snag a copy now!

To-Do List today and tomorrow

1. Study Movable Type
2. Upload movable type
3. Another informal meeting with Osis and Fish, discuss and talk crap
4. Finish my monthly mp3 downloading spree
5. Help Gavin buy his $2000 PC parts
6. Buy new nokia casing (cracked yesterday. =p )
7. Buy a new bottle of coffee powder
8. Get more sleep

[Listening to: DJ Ross – Emotion (3:12)

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