For those geeky enough to remember the BOFH, here’s a modern-day (or Web 2.0 if that’s what you want to call it) variation on the same theme of dispensing evil, catastrophe-inducing advice to mind-numbingly stupid support requests.

The Preamble – It’s been more than a month since I last wrote a journal-style blog entry, and more than two months since the last entry that was decently substantial and coherent enough. Many things have happened, many circumstances have changed, and there is so much that I’ve been thinking about. Having had little opportunity [...]

I saw this youtube clip on topgear.com today. I can’t say that I like the Soul, especially the awful rear-end; but the combination of precision driving and formations are quite amusing really – it ought to be worth 90 seconds of your time.

I am a free man. For now.
There is so much I would like to write, yet so little that I can put in the public domain.
The heart tells me to be verbose, yet the mind restrains such impulses.
Perhaps my freedom is but an illusion.

Morning – Woke up to the sun shining into my room. It felt good to wake up to the natural lighting of the morning sun instead of the glaring fluorescent tubes that have rudely shocked me into consciousness each morning for the past 15 days. Had mee siam for breakfast at my own time and [...]

I’ve reskinned my blog once again. No, it isn’t suffering from a case of identity crisis, unlike the topic of my previous post. It’s just that the previous theme wasn’t too shabby but the color scheme made it look really bad on low-contrast monitors (think dull, gloomy and despondent). This one ought to look a [...]

For those of us who are (still) on Facebook, almost all of us that is, the not-so-recent changes in the structure of it’s homepage have probably changed the way we use and think of Facebook, whether we realize it or not.

3rd April 2009 – A day to remember, where dreams were fulfilled, and history was made.
“Hwa Chong Institution, High School. Gold with Honours”. Thank you, thank you juniors.

I was cleaning up and reorganizing some of my things today. So I took the chance to take a few photos of the “after” part of the cleanup. The “before” part is kind of messy so I didn’t bother to take photos.

My Linux Box
Only the top-most box is in use.
It’s an old P4 desktop converted [...]

Afternoon
Sent off yuanfeng at the airport today.
Had a good chat with him over coffee at Terminal 1.
It’ll be nice to see him in May. I hope he’ll be back, for good reasons of course.