Archive for February, 2006
What do you want to do? What do you want?
Stop procastinating? Wake up when your alarm clock goes off? Stop biting your fingernails?
Quiz Smoking? Eat healthier? Exercise regurlarly? Lose 10 pounds? Become a morning person?
Spend less money? Buy a house? Buy a car? Buy a boat? Open a bar?
Get over someone? Fall in love?
Get a tattoo? Watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies?
Be more self-disciplined? Be organized?
Learn AJAX style programming? Contribute to an Open Source software project? Learn a foreign language?
Kiss in the rain? See the northern light? Swim with dolphins?
Or simply worry less and be happy?
Sure everyone has something that he/she wants to do. Wanna know what other people want to do? Find out on 43 things who have the same goals as yours, get inspired, make it happen and share your progress.
Here are something fun I found on 43 things:
1) 2 people want to have a hot dog cart and sell hot dogs.
2) 803 want to get a gmail account. That’s surprising! I’ve a lot of Gmail invitations to give out but apparently none of my friends wants it because everyone already had one. Anyway, I dun think these people need my help because I saw a few people posted there saying that they would hook up these people.
3) 613 want to witness the end of IE. Well, sure I love Firefox; but I dun think that IE would die so easily. IE7 is coming. Maybe there would be a few surprises? Who knows?
February 13th, 2006
Found on listible when browsing through the list of web 2.0 products and services, “Peekko chat is a Firefox extension that allows you to chat with other people looking at the same web site(s) as you. It adds a toolbar to Firefox that shows how many people are in that page’s chat room and allows you to instantly connect with them.”
I think it’s fun, and I just installed this Firefox extention. Yay! Not sure how useful it is to me, though; probably I won’t use it very often; but it won’t hurt to try out new thing, right? Maybe I’ll bum into you on some porn sites. Lol … nah! Porn is not for me. I’m a good girl — beautiful and smart.
P.S.
Is Peekko a cousin of meebo? They have very similar names eh?! Both are cute names.
Chap talked about meebo long time ago on his blog. I saw him use it, and the interface is cute, I think. 
February 13th, 2006
Apple wants to make their switch to Intel chips seem like a no-brainer, but the reality of it was a lot more complicated than just faster chips for Macs. [Read More]
February 7th, 2006
The song will start in a moment. Please be patient.
James Blunt - You’re Beautiful Lyrics
My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I’m sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won’t lose no sleep on that,
‘Cause I’ve got a plan.
You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.
You’re beautiful, it’s true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don’t know what to do,
‘Cause I’ll never be with you.
Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
F**king high,
And I don’t think that I’ll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.
You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.
You’re beautiful, it’s true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don’t know what to do,
‘Cause I’ll never be with you.
You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.
You’re beautiful, it’s true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it’s time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.
February 5th, 2006
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
February 3rd, 2006
It was Chap who started using it first, but I wasn’t very interested in it the first time he showed it to me on his desktop. (It seems that I’m never interested in any of his new find. Lol ^o^)
Recently my brother started using it, too; and his MSN Messenger nickname has changed to “try Yahoo! Widget - it’s cool” since then.
Still I didn’t intend to give it a try.
Then I saw a webpage about the Top 100 essential downloads on Digg. I found Yahoo! Widget on the list, and somehow I felt like spending some time trying out this little desktop thingy. Maybe it was because I was bored and got some time to kill, or …… I dun want my b/f and brother to feel that I’m an ignorant computer user when I’m studying computer sicence. Lol…just kidding!
Anyway, I tried it and now I like it. Let me show you some more screenshots.
You see Yoda and Darth Vader? They would speak! Wanna hear some sage advice from Yoda or feel the power of the darkside? You gotta have them on your desktop.
Besides Yoda and Darth Vader, there are also R2D2 and Chewbacca — well, not just characters from Star Wars, but there are also other characters like Bugs Bunny and Marvin The Martian.
Apart from having fun stuff on your desktop, there are also something very useful like weather report, calendar, clock, ToDo list and reminder.
There’s a whole bunch of different types of “time machines” for you to choose from the Widget gallery. Digital, analog, binary, Unix timestamp, stop watch, and countdown (to the release of a new movie or game or whatever). You name it, they have it.
It would be fun to know the number of seconds passed since January 1, 1970 eh?! I think so. Want more Unix stuff? They got a Man Page widget, too.
Wanna know how your computer’s doing? No Problem! There are widgets to tell you the performace of your CPU and memory usage of your computer.
Committed to the stock market? Currency exchange rate? Bond? Gold? Oil? No Problem!
Want some small games to kill time? No Problem! I downloaded Tic-Tac-Toe, Rock Paper Scissors and MasterMind. Tic Tac Toe is okay, but Rock Paper Scissors…. nah… Of course, there are other more “advanced” games.
Oh oh oh! There are pianos, too; but they suck.
There are really a lot of different widgets in the Widget gallery. I dun think it’s possible for me to cover them all. Check them out yourself. I’m sure that you can find something that you like there.
Okay! The last widget I want to mention here… final but not least guys… Gotta GO!. It’s fun, mischievous and useful! Check it out.
P.S.
Yahoo! Widget was not started by Yahoo!. Yahoo! bought it about half a year ago. The only drawback of the whole thing is the website. There’s nothing called Most Popular Download or The Highest-Rate Widget. Searching is bad, too.
I once searched for Darth Vader and Vader on the site, but the Darth Vader widget that I’m using was not shown in the search result. The reason? The widget is called Vaderspeak, and the description calls Darth Vader the Dark Lord. Who’s fault is it? Or should I searched for Star Wars?
Anyway, Yahoo! Widget is really worth a try. =) If not, why would I write a whole page about it?
February 1st, 2006
….. never feel so unsatisfied …… about you!
I really hate being like your mom…… always have to remind you of the things that you need to do and the things that you need to deal with yourself.
For your car insurance, I called the insurance company for you and get a quote. I searched online to help you find out the different options you have and the best rates of all these options.
For the problem of your camera, I talked to the owner of the camera store for you. They needed the repair report of the camera, and I had to keep bugging you to find it out (coz I couldn’t find it).
For all these phone bills, cable bill, store credit card bills…, I need to keep an eye on them so that you won’t forget to pay them on-time and get some unnecessary service charges.
I had given you a folder to hold all those important documents before I went back to HK last year. I asked you to give the tax consulting company our tuition receipts. You totally forgot about it. Well, it’s okay to submit it this year; but this increased my workload.
I understand that you need to work on weekends, and that you’re exhausted after work; so I take care of all the laundry and the cleaning of our place.
You never see all these dusts sitting on your speakers, TV, desks, bedframe, bookshelves…? Fine, I take care of them.
You never see the dirt on the bathroom mirrors? Fine, I clean it up.
You never see the spoiled food in our fridge? Fine, I thow it away.
Ran out of shampoo and bodywash? Fine, I already replaced the empty bottle with a new one, and I’ve also bought some extras so that we never have to rush to supermarkets when things run short all of a sudden.
I dun mind doing all these things, but how can you not see the mess on your desk and all these harddisks, cables, DVDs, CD-Rs, magazines, books, etc. on the floor?
Everyone who has seen our place knows how messy it is. I dun mind my friends seeing it, but I’m actually feeling extremely uncomfortable to live in a place like this.
I’m happy that we tidied up our place a little bit recently; but what’s the consequence of it? I was blamed for the missing repair report of the camera.
Although you did thank me for tidying up your desk, you don’t really apprecate it. You blame me for moving your stuff around when you can’t find what you want.
What is it?
I’m so fed up with it.
So many times that I ask myself how much longer I can stand it, but I find no answer to it.
Do I want someone who is so disorganized? No!
Do I think you would change? I dun think so.
So what’s left? It’s either “I quit or “live an unhappy life”.
Yes the feeling is still here …… but will it be used up one day?
Problems of living together is just one thing. What about you dun like me having a few drinks with my friends?
Why do you have to make me cry everytime after I have fun hanging out with my friends?
I know what happenned at Tonic was bad. I already promised you that I woundn’t go clubbing anymore; but not even having a few drinks with my friends on their birthdays? Not even going out for dinner with a bunch of people? A mysterious man voice on the phone was my fault? What about YOUR friends? I couldn’t even have a few drinks when I was under your supervision?
Don’t tell me that you worry about me! I want no care like that! Being your g/f doesn’t mean that you have control over me.
I was extremely upset about your reaction to my having a few drinks with my friends last Saturday! You could totally see that I wasn’t really drunk. I didn’t do anything stupid, did I? Why did you have to give me that face? What did I do wrong? It was my friend’s birthday, and I also gotta see a few old friends that I hadn’t seen for years. What was wrong with having a few shots?
I dunno……. I dun think anyone would think that it is right of you to control your g/f like that.
I love you, but what you did and what you’re doing is pushing my heart away.
February 1st, 2006
