June 24, 2006
Hello Kitty MP3 player
Just as the title says, a HK MP3 player. From Sanrio, and.. teehee... press HK hands and feet to work. Cute.
June 23, 2006
Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies
http://www.webpark.ru/comments.php?id=14575
Everyone say... awwwwwwww!
T ☆ G ☆ I ☆ F
June 17, 2006
Cultivate Community Multicultural Street Festival
Headed into town today, expecting nothing unusual. Until I heard some music booming out of the area at the Civic Offices. I was a bit deterred from all the skater boyz but the music was good, and I wanted to see what was going on. Apparently it was the Cultivate Community event today. And there was what seems to be half-pipes (although I thought otherwise and gave out to Mick.. whoops). And skaters of all ages were freestyling, although a bit apprehensive (much better than the grufties at Central Bank, or the 20 odd year old trying to skate at our appartment complex each eveing). There was one guy who stood out from the rest, and did some better (not awesome) tricks. And a guy on a bmx. There was some hip-hop folks (incl. kids) in the back doing their thang. Not too shabby. And the music (what drew me there in the first place) was pretty damn good.
Here are some vids:
June 16, 2006
Google Calendar new features
So google has release more new features to googlecalendar.
I tend to have all my stuff as private, but maybe I should use it a bit more. Let my friends know what I am upto.
There are other new features like
- google calendar available in your personalised google home page
- accessing calendar from your phone
- viewing google calendar from google desktop
- integration with gmail for your domain
- google calendar API
- support for Verizon (which does not really matter for us in Ireland)
Here is mine after trying out their publish events and embed into blog, it's just a test by the way.
June 14, 2006
June 11, 2006
Brain Training
Mick got me a copy of Brain Training for the DS. It's quite good, although I was not surprised my brain age was 70 or something, given that I was knackered from the week and it was past midnight when I decided to check it out. They advise you to play in the morning when you are not so tired. Oh well, I wanted to try out the game anyway. I saw an article in Kotoku, and I disagree with it, citing that it's useless IQ trainer. The game is to train your mind to be more alert, not increase IQ. I found memorising the hardest, although I have always been bad at this anyway (that is why I hate exams! ;) ). I enjoy the quick answering of simple maths question. Some of the other games are challenging, like keeping not of head counts when they enter and exit the house. I have always shunned Sudoku, but I decided to give it a go, since Brain Training bundles it with it. It's not too bad.
All in all, it's quite entertaining, plus it encourages you to do it daily, and not do these exercises throughout the day, allowing rest.
(You can discuss more in my IBC forum)
June 10, 2006
World cup in... ascii
This is so sick! "Live stream of world cup in ASCII"":http://ascii-wm.net/! There is a how-to to use telnet and stream the feed!
"Funny" to "Really...?"
So, I might as well start off this in a geeky way. Heh. So an xbox was being used as a cheap server for a Uni which held some students how-to-build-your-own-website projects. Years later, the department bloomed and in came more staff, and wait for it, a new manager. One day, students started to complain that they cannot access their websites, after much investigating, and trying to locate what happened to the server... the result was, it was missing. Physically missing. The sysadmin, who coincidentally was one of the few who knew about this xbox-now-a-server machine, went to the new manager. Heh, here it comes, the new manager brought it home for his kid to "entertain himself". So now the missing xbox mystery resolved, the sysadmin has labelled it very thoroughly with “This is actually a server” all over the xbox.
(Ref: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/50428/50428.htm )
Now, onto the guy who does the Family Guy's voices. Yes, Seth MacFarlane. He made a speech during this year's Haravard's class day. It was really funny, and I never knew he looked like that?!? Plus, some of the stuff he said, I am surprised he got away with it.
(Warning, string language. Ref: Family Guy Voice Actor's Speech @ Harvard You might want to click on the 2nd link on the site in the comments, if the first one does not work.)
Finally, Simpson's eps nearly tossed out Fermat's last theorem's_last_theorem. Um, well, this came out of the math equations you saw from 1995's Halloween's ep, when Homer got sucked into anther dimension. Apparently, the writers take mathematical references in the series quite seriously. Lots of thought has been put into it! Really, just check out some of the stuff at Mathematical references abound on The Simpsons.
June 06, 2006
June 05, 2006
June 01, 2006
Insane in the membrane
Well, that was stuck in my head when I read that Sun will be letting go 5,000 employees this year, and one of the offices (apart from the Menlo Park one) they are keeping is the ex-insane asylum.