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15:00 – Leaving Singapore for good… very sad. An interview with the creator of The Office on Parkinson, very funny!
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15:00 – Felix the infamous is back in Singapore, and our packing is well underway! The Apple Pro keyboard reviewed, and is open source gaming feasible?
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1:17 – Very short episode on how to fix a computer. Don't try this at home! Or anywhere for that matter.
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15:00 – The HP 5510 OfficeJet All-In-One reviewed, Ruben is very tired from Ana's birthday party (yeah yeah har har.) and what is with desktop search?
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10:00 – The first very raw, cheap, unprofessional, learning-how-to-do-a-radio-show episode of the Rubenerd Show. Talking about my vision for the show, where it's headed and my inspiration for starting one in the first place. Be kind!
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Today was back to the usual hectic routine my life seems to be taking, walking around all over the place, doing errands etc. Ever since my full time summer job at Veritas started I've basically been on my feet every day, my nerdy body is not used to it! Cameron's dad invited my to the Singapore Cricket Club for boxing day brunch which was fantastic! All in all we spent about 3 hours there!
Got my mum's Zire 72 working that I bought her for Christmas yesterday (yesterday? already?), the screen quality is amazing! My old little Tungsten W smart phone has the same resolution but the colours on the Zire are so much better, the contrast has really been improved. Hoping to buy a Treo 650 to replace the W, then I can get Palm OS 5 too.
And in case you're about to email me to say 'buy a Pocket PC' shoot yourself in the head. I don't trust Windows on my PC, so why should I trust it on a phone??!! The mere prospect is frightening. Plus the battery life on Pocket PCs suck. And I want a device with a proper keyboard; I don't care what Microsoft says the handwriting recognition on Pocket PC is terrible. With my Tungsten W you can just whip it out and punch in a message or SMS into the keypad and off it goes.
Also kept working on this site to try and get it up and working. As of yet, despite the fact I have been typing these blog entries none of them have been published! I got rid of the purple and replaced it with a darker blue; I thought the former might have been sending the wrong message! So at the moment I think this is the only page people can see!
Therefore if you see any links that don't work, it means I haven't finished that part of the page yet!
Oh but I got a shock: I was sitting at my mums computer in her art studio thingy with her sitting on the couch watching the ABC news when the report of the massive earthquake came in off Sumatra… 8.1 on the Richter scale, over 3000 people reported dead. Sorry just reading BBC, it was 8.9. Unbelievable. The biggest quake in 40 years. I cannot even begin to imagine what those people's relatives must be feeling; houses have been swept away and buildings have collapsed.
Got a clip from the Wikipedia entry on the quake which came out a few hours ago:
“The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake of magnitude 8.9 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 00:58:50 UTC (or 07:58:50 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok). It was the strongest earthquake in the world since the Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska in 1964, and the fifth largest since 1900. More than three thousand deaths were caused by resulting tsunamis, which were as high as 10 metres (33 feet) in some locations.
The earthquake triggered massive tsunamis (popularly known as “tidal waves”), which struck the coasts of the Indian Ocean. However Pacific Ocean coasts were not affected. The death toll from the tsunamis and the resultant floods was reported to be more than 3300, with hundreds of persons reported missing.”
– English Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_Earthquake
And here was a map published for the article by Bogdangiusca:
– English Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Harta_Ocean_Indian_Quake.png
Unbelievable… I can't think of anything else to say.
Mirrored version of BBC article released a few minutes ago, a few hours after the Tsumani struck; its absolutely unbelievable.
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Well Christmas is here again. I don't know why, but this year it never really felt like Christmas was coming, and now its here it was a bit of an anti-climax. Maybe I'm just getting older.
This morning everyone was sleeping but as usual my body's clock got me up at 7.00 ready for work! It really is freaky how accurate I can be, 9 times out of 10 I wake up and look at the time an its either 7.00 or one minute.
I watched another one of the latest episodes of Enterprise, season 4, the one where the United Earth Embassy on Vulcan gets bombed. Most of the storylines covers 2 or 3 episodes now, so they can get a lot more involved with events etc. I heard that was the main critisism towards seasons 1 and 2: not much cohesion. I thought they were okay, though Voyager is still my favourite, heh heh. Hey, it was the first Trek I saw… I was 2 when TNG came out!
So later on we went downstairs to the tree which hadn't even had decorations on it 2 days ago and gave out all the stuff… Elke got an iPod Mini which was good, she didn't go to the dark "Creative Zen" side. Don't know why the company is called Creative if all they do in the small portable music market is rip off someone else! And they just look crap! Hey, this is good rant material, might hold off for now…
I got my mum a Zire 72, her old Palm m505 was fine for a while but the screen was really low res and she was finding it tough to read the screen. The new one also has RealMedia player on it so she can put MP3s on her SD card and shove it in there to listen to music. A 1.2mp camera too. Man my Tungsten W is looking cheaper every day!
Better still, I got my dad a 1GB Compact Flash card for his Canon digital camera which eats up memory like… something that eats really fast. But the cool thing was I was able to pay for it with my work pay not pocket money, so when he got it he didn't have to think "I'm paying for this!".
We put off having the turkey roast till tomorrow night. One of Elke's friends was leaving Singapore for good so she left in the late afternoon to the airport. I think she went by cab: taking the MRT from Orchard or Newton Station down to City Hall and changing over to the East West line and going to Changi is cheap but takes well over an hour, a cab can make it in about 15 minutes! Yeah so instead the parentage and I watched Rocky & Bullwinkle DVDs, they were seriously funny! Modern cartoons suck.
Anything else worth mentioning? Think that's it. Oh yes, I got an email from Mr Hopkins down in the Blue Mountains to say Merry Christmas which was a pleasent surprise :). Once I get my SMTP server working again I'll send him a reply. Damned Linux, my FreeBSD and NetBSD machines all work fine, I think I'll be moving it over next year.
Well here it is: my first blog entry on this new platform. When I set up Rubenerd all those centuries ago it never really had a purpose, in all honesty is was always a website that just had random stuff on it that I either thought was groovy, weird etc. Now it's a blog site with random stuff on it that I think is groovy, weird etc.
I've kept a log at home for some time now, I think my first entry dates back to around 1999, but just in the last 2 years I've been a lot more involved and my entries have been progressively getting bigger and bigger. I don't know, but the idea of keeping a record of my life, however dull it is, might be fun to look at in years gone by!
Anyway I was finding that I was writing some pretty involved stuff and I thought that maybe one percent of it, or maybe two, might be useful to someone, especially with respect to some of the tech problems I've had and solved over the years. So here it is.
I hope you find this site useful or at the very least good material for whatever you want to do. I had a podcast going for a while but for the time being my Webserver is simply too small to accommodate them. Maybe in the future I'll take it up again.
Happy holidays!
