March 30, 2005

Funny thing today

Leaving work today and walking out of the biz park, and those Northsider kids on their whiney bikes were doing their rounds up and down the green. One lad was racing down the dirt road (gated of course), and skidded to a stop. Thinking it was fancy and all. And one thing popped in my my mind and all the fellow folks leaving work as we walked past, and I laughed out loud when someone said, "I was hoping he would run smack into the gate!". Boy, it's so true.

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March 26, 2005

Stupid online gaming crap

So I was doing the usual updating of anti-spyware, adaware, virus checkers, and this "wild tangent" crap came up as a trojan. So I removed it, and it was coming up with cannot run dll malarky whenever you log in. So I did a search and proceeded to remove it manually from the system, folders, registry, and run msconfig to get it not to start up at startup. Well that worked after a few reboots. Stupid crap.

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March 25, 2005

Neopets at the flicks and WoW hotel charges?

Neopets going to the big screen, now that is a bit much. I am quite happy with my neopets as they are without appearing on the big screen. Anyhoo, not sure why I am commenting on it! Heh, and since I have been playing World of Warcraft (ok not here, but here). But then I saw this, credit card oopsy.

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March 23, 2005

Smartcards good

Well, I think so. London tube may get mobile coverage by 2008, but as my previous posts shows that Ireland is laggind so far behind. Even the tube has a smart card system (blogged before) called the Oyster. Well, what more prominent example to follow than HK's MTR (underground) 3G coverage now (since they already have mobile coverage for awhile now).
We are slowly connecting our 2 Luas lines, planning of a metro from ariport to city, but still only rolling out a smartcard for Luas only at the moment (rest will follow in 2006).

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He blogs, she blogs.

So my QT is at pycon over at DC, and I do check out his blog to see what he is upto, mainly frying his brain.... hahaha, and having a fantastic time, it seems. But I could not help laughing myself silly when I saw this.

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Irish integrated smart card delayed till 2006

So the all in one smart card is still coming in, but won't be till 2006. (free registration to read) Oh well, at least we are using the smart card. Technology that was created by an Irish company, used in major cities successfully, and we are only taking it up now! Sheesh.

But here is some information on the Luas pay as you go smartcard .

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March 15, 2005

My PB is here (again)

Yup, arrived safe and sound at work. First things first, was to do the hardwware check before I do anything else! And everything went well. So got the software updates done, a few customisation here and there, and had to leave it till home time. So got demo subethaedit, and Mick showed me how we can work together. Got quicksiilver, iterm. Heh, well, the list goes on! Well, it's finally here, and it is very nice to use. I need to get another 512MB RAM for it though, World of Warcraft sort of glitches (not too badly), but other then that, it is playable... Heh, I was online with it for 3 hours! (Again?!?) It's such a good game. My PB is great!

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March 08, 2005

My new PB journey (again)

Ok, so I only check once to twice a day now. But so far the update is on hold; aircraft/truck failure on the Mar 5th and at this moment Flight Booked on Mar 6th in Singapore. Ooh, come on...

**UPDATE**Flight departed from Shanghai Mar 7th. So, it's getting closer.

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March 05, 2005

iPod Shuffle issues with Dell

Got an iPod Shuffle for my bro as a b-day present. And since I am down with my BF, we are all excited to see it in action. After the "ooh, it's so small and nice" comments, we commenced to get it to work with the home pc, which is a Dell Dimension 8100 (yeah, yeah, it's a bit old now).
Now, gee whizz, what is this? The Shuffle is not working? Can't read/write to device, or unknown USB device. Huh? Well, lots up updating of our BIOS (since we are up-to-date with MS SP), any new drivers for the system. Well, the system is much nippier, and the advice we kept getting from google-searching was "If you have MS SP1, that should have your USB2.0 support", crappy. So much for that. And it was getting really late.
So this morning, I decided to google-search some more, and finally made progress after finding that 2 top ports at the back of the Dell is for keyboard and mouse and most importantly (and how could I now know!), Dell uses crappy components, and also may not provide enough power to Shuffle. So some hope. Out to town today then, to acquire ourselves a USB PCI card, and take if from there.
Oh, just to note, plugged the iPod Shuffle into my BF's PB, and it works, and even uploaded music to it. Go figure!

UPDATE Got ourselves a Belkin USB PCI card. And works a dream after installing it on the system. Yay! Music to Shuffle no problem now.

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It's shipped! (Again)

It said that the shipment of my PB won't be till 8th March, but I got my shipment notification email this morning! I am not complaining. This is great! Although I would like to be able to see the status of my order via the status page though. So back to Apecode's appletracker.

And here is the current status (a much saner one than last time):

05 mar 05 departed from product source Apple Shanghai
05 mar 05 boxes scanned Kuehne & Nagel Shanghai
05 mar 05 Data received from supplier Apple Shanghai

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