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Wish all of you a very good Happy New Year 2007! Goodbye 2006, hello higher toll, petrol and any-rates! *sniff* p/s: For those who keeps on creating resolutions and “new goals” on every new year, just stop doing that and forget it! Why bother waiting till the new year to start something? Why don’t start [...]

If any of you watched a J-drama called “akihabara@deep“, this is a tribute to all of you!

I’ve been told, quite a number of times, that I have a strange sense of entertainment. While I do think it is a little bit strange, but it never occurred to me that it is so strange that people are so bothered about it – even when I did not bother them at all. One [...]

Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred. I really [...]

I’ve been using [tag]Opera[/tag] lately and noticed that for certain sites (like deviantArt, PhotoMalaysia and Maybank2U), it can load the page almost rapidly, while [tag]Firefox[/tag] 2.0 takes a while to load it. I’m left with some pondering on why such phenomenon happens. It is no doubt that Opera have one of the fastest rendering engine [...]

Note: This post is a little back-dated. It was in my draft for a while and I didn’t have time to finish it then. On Oct 27th (that is around a few days after Raya or Eid ul-Fitr), me and Shiro planned to meet one of our ‘colleague’ (the quote marks because we consider him [...]

I had this phenomenon for a few days – I couldn’t send out any mail with the web-interface, my pop mail client won’t connect without crashing (I’m using Evolution Mail). Uploads to my blog, imageshack, GMail attachment or any other web-based upload doesn’t work at all. Most of the time, the website does not respond [...]

Honestly I’m sick of Windows for the time being – it is very hard to keep your system tidy and up to mark without doing any significant tweaking, installing various security tools and make sure everything is up to date and in check. Chances are, once a while you’ll have some unexpected viral being transmitted [...]