Well guys and girls, its Christmas (well its almost over for me) and I'm lazy and tired. I must say I had a good day yesterday, and work isnt going to be a flood as there's a few more holidays coming, so I think it should be good.
So I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays) and have a great New Year!
Well it was a weird day yesterday, but I had some frog at the Chinese restaurant. I wont go on and say that 'it tasted like chicken', mainly because it didn't. It was more of a prawn / shrimp taste with tender flesh.
Well its 9.20am (Malaysia) and I cant seem to log on to the Google webpage. Its weird, I've grown so used to just typing stuff into the search bar (by default mine has Google) and waiting for amazing answers. No such luck today. Wonder whats up with that then. Oddly, Blogger is still up, so thats a good thing.
Dav out
[EDIT] Well it seems to be something to do with the DNS, because the IP 216.239.37.99 and 64.233.167.99 works fine for me. Google, fix the DNS darn it!
A great friend of mine from Sweden (Hurk) has just started his own blog. To put it in his own words, "I've started a blog 10 years after it was fashionable to do so" (ok ok so he might have said it a bit diffrently!)
Pressed the power button on the PC, saw a flash and heard a pop, PC dead. AVR unit's fuse melted, got a replacement and that works fine now. Haven't had the time to look at the PC yet.
Well a friend of a friend is offering me a Nokia N70, and seeing as how my older Nokia DIED, I might take it. Would be a great way of getting more pictures on to the blog too.
Well its been a crazy past 2 months for me, insanity ensues when work and family stuff clash head on!
Not to dwell on the crazy stuff, I took mom, dad and the fiancé over for some Oktoberfest fun, where imported German beer was being sold for RM1 (it was an offer thing, the catch was you had to use 2 fifty cent coins and there was a limit, but all good!) with insanely awesome German sausages and sauerkraut!
Super fun, the band was pretty cool too. Below is the extract from the feast
Look forward for this year’s biggest blast of GREAT BEERS FANTASTIC FOOD….. EXCELLENT ENTERTAINMENT which got better. For three consecutive days at Lower Ground Floor Rainforest from 27th to 29th October 2006 this year’s festival will see German Band Inntaler Musikanten performing five hours of heart stumping Bavarian folk songs, dances and yodeling.
International beers will be going that great bargain and offers along with best of Bavarian Cuisine from Dave's. What more……. It’s all fun at the OktoberFest, with line-ups such as live DJ spinning top charts, game master giving away loads of freebies, game booths, face painting, racing queens and fast and furious cars . DON'T FORGET ! RM1 WARSTEINER BEER ! Get your two fifty cents coins ready !
[ Pwyff ] So one day, George Bush and The Queen of England are sitting in her room talking about politics, when Bush asks the Queen, "How do you know if the highest members of your state are smart enough to be doing their job?" [ Pwyff ] And the Queen replies, "Well, I usually ask them riddles, and see how fast they respond. That's usually a good way to see if they can think for themselves." [ Pwyff ] So the Queen calls Tony Blair in, and asks him, "If your Parents had a child, but it's not your sister, and it's not your brother, who is it?" [ Pwyff ] And Tony Blair immediately replies, "That's easy, it's me!" [ Pwyff ] And the Queen, who is very pleased, send Tony Blair away. [ Pwyff ] Now, Bush, who is very impressed, brings the Queen to find Donald Rumsfield and asks him, "Hey Donald, if your parents had a kid, but it's not your sister, and it's not your brother, who is it?" [ Pwyff ] And Rumsfield ponders for a long time, and then admits to Bush that he has no clue. [ Pwyff ] Pissed off, Bush drags Rumsfield and the Queen to Dick Cheney, where Bush asks Cheney, "Hey Dick, if your parents had a kid, but it's not your sister or your brother, who is it?" [ Pwyff ] And Cheney ponders for a long time, and then he finally lights up with an idea, and says "It's me!" [ Pwyff ] And Bush gets REALLY pissed off, and yells at both of them, "NO YOU IDIOTS! IT'S TONY BLAIR!"
Well its been a rough week. More like a rough month. From work based issues to house hunting, to just being tired in general.
2 days ago my home PC died. It got caught up in an infinate reboot loop, and it didnt want to even boot up in safe mode (XP Pro) and it would just hang at this one driver and reboot over and over. A quick check from work showed it to be something that Alcohol 120% installed, and truth to be told the guys at Alcohol 120% (support) got back to me via email pretty quick. Sadly, no go.
Had to reboot the pc with an XP CD, best part was, I DID NOT KNOW where I had chucked the damn thing. A CD I borrowed from work (hastily, I was rushing for work) turned out to be XP OFFICE Pro. FFS.
Ended up downloading the entire CD, took me till Sunday evening, even then couldnt reboot and repair the OS Partition, XP recovery didnt even have the database insatlled to do the repair (maybe corrupted) and hence it didnt want to boot me and ask for my admin password. It didnt even see the partition as [NTFS] just [UNKNOWN] which basicly left me with the only option of formating and starting from scratch. Lost my files. Lost my downloads. Lost some movies. Lost alot of games and almost 20 hours sunk into Dungeon Siege 2.
After 3 hours or so of application installs, setups, and configurations, now it seems, that the Realtek AC3 97 audio driver doesnt want to work, and it doesnt even want to uninstall. No audio. Tired. Hate someone. Something. Nevermind
Dav out
[EDIT] Dropped my old Nokia 8250, it doesnt power on now, using a backup Sony Ericsson T230. Hate it. Cant figure out anything. Bah
Wildfolk says: I got an email from a friend after telling him that Mum was upset about me joining in a combat role..
Dav@Werk says: k
Dav@Werk says: well your mum loves yous
Wildfolk says: "Tell your mum that everyone dies and you're going to learn how to best delay they with heavy weapons and being surrounded by 8 guys also keen on not dying today and not letting anyone else die either - also trained and heavily armed"
Well the BOSS bought me a new sweet ACER LCD Monitor, that baby is running nicely at 1280 x 1024 (its 17'). Its making me want an LCD monitor for my home, since I can clearly see the amount of desk real-estate that I've saved up.
The new office desk space with the Acer LCD monitor
-=SSOF=-Dorphac: didnt load a window when i clicked it -=SSOF=-Dorphac: gotta do it manually davinx: http://www.thiagi.com/email-consulting101-tips.html davinx: does for me -=SSOF=-Dorphac: oh it was teh <> davinx: lawls -=SSOF=-Dorphac: so you abide by these tips?> davinx: hell no davinx: i always try to do the direct opposite davinx: to piss clients off -=SSOF=-Dorphac: lol the numbering is not in order davinx: yeah davinx: cause they have a diffrent list -=SSOF=-Dorphac: shouldnt tip 1 be the most important? davinx: where you add the tips davinx: and thats in running number order -=SSOF=-Dorphac: they should have a top10 davinx: then they take the tips, and put them in the catagories davinx: they should davinx: but because they are consultants, they cant agree on which are the top 10 tips :D -=SSOF=-Dorphac: and number one should have something to do with kissing ass davinx: sounds about right
So yeah, house-hunting really sucks. After a couple of months, its down to this: A. Buy a house that's RM260K - RM310K in an area thats FAR out of the city. B. Buy a second-hand (used) house for like RM210K - RM250K (which is in and around the city) but then spend another RM40K - RM80K for renovations
Looks like Josh is on the blogging bandwagon, you can read his insightfull posts here.Its still new blog, so he's going to need you guys to help comment away (ie: spam)
Greetings, Been super busy at work, but that has not stopped me from bothering people on MSN! Hence, the postcard pics below. Aleš was nice enough to send it over.
It looks like everyone's jumping on the "Web Beta" service idea these days, with Gmail starting it off and Hotmail with their 'Outlook' like layout.
Yahoo! has come out with a nifty version of Beta Mail, and the screeny below shows you how it looks like. I've used Yahoo! for ages, and I'm quite happy with the generous amount of email space they provide. The spam does get to be a bother, but thats to expect with an email account thats been in use for as long as I have.
Well work's slowed down for a few days, and it lets me clean up the stuff thats loaded on the office laptop.
Its got to a stage at the pc where I lift my mug and find that there's no more tea in it, then 2 minutes later I lift my mug again and there's STILL no tea in it. 'orible! Mossy says I need an underling.
Then I open up the run consol and type in 'calc' when I wanted to pull up the command screen (cmd). Cursing, I close the calcultor, then type in 'calc' AGAIN!.
Well its been one hell of a month, and yesterday was pretty rough. A quick breakdown of what went on:
7.30am Azzy comes over because she has a warning light on her car dash 8.15am Service center opens, I talk to the manager and highlight the issues, and tell him it could be the throttle body. He hooks it up to the computer and does a systems check 9.30am All good, head off to work 3.20pm Azzy calls, says mom has emergency appendix op 7.40pm Azzy's car dies in traffic. Throttle BODY! 8.10pm I get there. So does AAM 9.00pm They do what they can. The problem is the car starts up fine, and they cant seem to figure out what was wrong with it when it stalled 9.20pm Drop by to see her mom in the hospital 9.40pm Dinner 11.00pm Hoem
Well we caught the movie yesterday, and even after reading about it in the papers (the papers gave it a B-! ) I was still intrested in watching it, since it had Heath Ledger as Casanova (I thought he was pretty cool since I watched 10 Things I Hate About You, and then A Knight's Tale) The movie was good, I think the chemistry between Heath and Sienna Miller was a tad lacking, but overall the 'fun-ness factor' of the whole movie was pretty high.
1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. 2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist. 3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. 4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. 5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care. 6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid. 7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!? 8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant. 9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth. 10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you. 11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off. 12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial. Would you like my card? 13. No, my powers can only be used for good. 14. How about never? Is never good for you? 15. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me. 16. You sound reasonable. Time to up my medication. 17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter. 18. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message . 19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant. 20. Who me? I just wander from room to room. 21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys! 22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy. 23. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits. 24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers. 25. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. 26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.
I was just poking around the Internet when I came across this pretty sweet site (SF Reviews) I think this site gives people a great chance to actually read reviews on a book before getting it. I think its amazing stuff.
I was filling up on some petrol at a local petrol station when I noticed a sign above the petrol pump that read something like this : "Our frequent replenishment cycles ensure you the freshest fuel available at all times"
I've never heard of fresh petrol. Its already almost a million years old in the first place.
This Monday SUCKED. I woke up as my phone alarm went off, and I thought to myself 'WHY the heck did I put an alarm at 7am on a SUNDAY?" Ticked off, I curled up back to bed, only to be awakened by the national anthem being played at the primary school near my home.