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Humans are very much social creatures.
It’s then actually pretty sad/ironic that we’re so bad at relationships.

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some moments last forever, but some flare out with love love love

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now it seems that I don’t want to go back home

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07 July 2006 Friday

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hahahahahaha

awesome scene…

just started watching the show ReGenesis, since it’s been so highly recommended....

and… hahahaha…. they’re dealing with this…(LOL…seriously) avian flu epidemic or something…(sorry…that’s really not the funny part) where the chickens have been infected and they’re not sure how far it spreads…

21 June 2006 Wednesday

slated in consumed at 6:13 pm

Ooh. found a copy of Tokyo Drift with Chinese AND Bahasa Melayu subtitles (Malaysian).
Now I can transcribe the good scene.

GOSH DARNIT they lost a chunk of that scene!!! You have GOT to be kidding me. They killed the whole only section I wanted.
oy.

20 June 2006 Tuesday

slated in consumed at 6:29 pm

Opera 9 is out.

12 June 2006 Monday

Hoobastank

and Staind's 'Mudshovel'

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I actually try not to like them and I don’t listen to them much. But for better or worse, I do like them.

13 April 2006 Thursday

Google Calendar

slated in consumed at 5:30 pm

yay! Google calendar is available now.

of all days to leave my spiral calendar at home…
i’ll play this eve… or after taxes are done.

... added: 11:27am~ first day = popular and busy = slow
calendar program’s moving really slow. must be serious server load from everyone jumping on it for the first time.. and probably increasingly throughout the day. google’s usually good about beating this by staggering access to their new programs. usually they overcompensate for everything. seemingly not on this one..

...really slow. changes are seemingly not taking effect, and then some (not all) are suddenly showing up several minutes later.

not really surprising or corrigible, considering the circumstances: certain unbelievable server load due to overwhleming interest in the new application. but i am still a lil surprised that Google, so good at overcomping for most everything, did not have checks in place or crazy server capacity already installed.

... added: 2:21pm~ Google apps
the new Google Calendar applciation is pretty thorough.. what I’d expect from a google app.. normally fast (I trust), colorful (i’d prefer more color options though. I could so run out of the existing ones. and maybe icons would make good markers. surely that’s in the works), and pretty easily editable. can’t get a thorough feel for it until the server/system is working optimally. but I’m confident that Gcalendar and I will be good friends.

Unrelated to the calendar, the ONE thing I can think of in which Google has ever failed me and thoroughly disappointed me is that they built a lovely instant messaging client (Google Talk) to integrate into their lovely existing web-based email (Gmail), and they even finally added conversation logging that tied the two apps together seamlessly, BUT it still remains that when I use the Gtalk app to send a message to a friend who is offline, it sends me a lousy “User is offline; didn’t receive your message” response, rather than simply offering up the quick option to automatically send messages to their gmail/email (without opening up a browser window or email client). ICQ figured out offline instant messaging logging YEARS ago when all of this was pretty new. how come everyone else, including Google, is so slow to get with it?

29 March 2006 Wednesday

What Opera has over Firefox: search within forms.

slated in consumed at 7:02 pm

I’ve been using Firefox quite exclusively for the past monthish.

Before that I had always gravitated back to Opera, despite all of firefox’s fun extensions, etc.

Firefox was not as polished, resource capable/efficient (I typically open dozens and dozens of pages/tabs at a time, and actually would often memory leak and crash, whereas Opera was more stable for me. Firefox was also slowing up a lot and being very sluggish with loading webpages—but I recognized that this was more or less unique to my computer setup, and was not the norm for other users.

But I couldn’t figure out a way to get a BlinkList bookmarklet into Opera (current version 8.52), so I’ve been using Firefox (current verison 1.5.0.1) lately and have been quite happy.

But now I’m about to start doing web development again, and the key firefox shortcoming reemerges: Firefox does not have the capability to search within forms.

For example, while I’m typing this up in my Textpattern admin panel, I can run a search for anything in this form that I’m typing in…because I’m working in Opera. And when I am searching for a piece of php code or a selector in my stylesheet (all in webforms), I can find what I’m looking for if I’m working in Opera. In firefox, you can search all over the page, BUT it won’t return anything that’s inside a form. I don’t understand why. I’ve looked for an extension or something that’s fixed this problem, but so far no luck. Does anyone out there have a solution that I’ve just completely missed?

22 March 2006 Wednesday

My favorite Firefox and Thunderbird Extensions

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I was upgrading my mother’s firefox and thunderbird, and trying to add useful extensions for her… My old list on here is wayyy outdated, so here comes a new one for future reference.

12 January 2006 Thursday

Singapore Airlines

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As probably most who have flown it would agree, Singapore Airlines is comparatively much goodness. First thing that hits you when you walk in are the bright blue/purple seats (well, i guess the outfits of the stewardesses are quite catching, but that’s fairly familiar for me).. then there’s the matching flannel blankets, the many channels on the personal tv set, the bendy sides of the headrest, the icecream bars they offer you after meals, the decent airline food, the purple socks on flights, and the nice stewardesses.

if you manage a first class/”raffles” class seat, you get what look either like big cushy armchairs, or a-bit-overly-dramatic cushy thrones. i’ll give my verdict on those when i get to try them one day.
for now, i’m lucky i’m still small enough to bunch up and curl into my economy seat at the window, and climb over passengers sitting next to me by stepping on their armrests, so they don’t have to get up when i have to visit the restroom.

Singapore Airport is also nice, and the rest of the city is similar as far as my memory serves, but it’s certainly grown up in the past 15 years.

27 December 2005 Tuesday

Predixis MusicMagic / MusicMatch

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Predixis MusicMatch. — correction: Predixis MusicMagic

I don’t know when this hit winamp’s featurelist, but it is a beautiful beautiful wonderful feature. yes, i wish it did its magic by somehow analyzing each individual trac and gleanning the beat, mood, style, feeling to interpolate that into automatic educated playlists, so that it wouldn’t need to know the music in order to match them. however, its library of knowledge is really quite impressive, and its matching ability is even more impressive. it’s my new very good friend. i still listen to my music by loading all the thousands and then hitting “shuffle” and “repeat”, but then once a song hits that fits my mood, i run musicmatch on it, enqueue those, and let it continue on shuffle as it cycles through those mood-fitting songs before continuing on its random path.

i haven’t tried the standalone program… just discovered it as a feature in winamp a month or so ago. *happy*

Update 2008: MusicIP Mixer

17 December 2005 Saturday

Crash and general today

slated in moments, consumed at 3:05 am

{ 6:26 PM } Having watched Crash: why do people have to be so self-oppressive, and then take out their problems on others, perpetuating the cycle? why are consequences based more on result, rather than intent? how come context is so secret and hidden and under-acknowledged? it’s everything. context is everything. people are not all created equal, they are not all raised and treated equally — and nor should they be. the only thing that should be remotely enforced to be equal, is decency; decency and compassion and respect/interest. butterfly effect. everything matters.

{ 6:46 PM } i stayed home sick today. started as a scratch in my throat a few days ago, and has gotten progressively worse. it’s more uncomfortable than anything else, with varying symptoms and varying intensities thorughout the day. particularly bad on the train rides home, where i guess the dry air closes my throat up and tickles it, inducing a feeling of constriction and necessary large coughing. last night was miserable, as was the waking up several times in the night, and being thoroughly clogged up in the morning. i was advised a cough drop called Cold-eeze, which I am assured will murder my cold in just 3-4 days. but to be safe, i’ve also added a pack of Luden’s assorted berry and a pack of Robitussin Honey/tea-flavored cough drops, and a pack of Day & Night Sinus Therapy from EckeRxd. And stayed in bed much and using many tissues and drinking much water. Drastic improvement from this morning: I can breathe out of both nostrils now.

Brother’s done with exams and classes for this term. Happy him.
Parents visited grandmother these past few days.
I want to eat ice cream, but dun think it’ll make my thorat happy.

Back to Crash: First of all, it was a good movie. Good actors, good segments, good weaving, very good. Second of all, I really shouldn’t watch movies like that by myself. I still want to know what the evolutionary/intelligent reason is for emotional crying. Just don’t make much sense to me. I need a fun, funny, upbeat, cool sci-fi/action/adventure/fantasy movie. Except that pretty much all good, remotely serious/realistic films draw upon humanity and human courage / spirit / cruelty / selfishness / strength / conviction / generosity / simplicity / greatness. I have yet to come up with even a basic explanation for what any of that has to do with tear ducts, but nonetheless..

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