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March 2004 - Posts

General Notice
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:06 PM
There is no blog entry today because the editor is celebrating April Fool's Day.
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Didnt go to the gym
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:05 AM
Think I kinda overtrained. Didnt have the strength to run a simple 2.4km yesterday.Decided to stay away from the gym today.Regime resuming tomorrow.
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File Sharing Had No Effect on 02 CD Sales
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:54 PM
Music companies typically blame file sharing for affecting their annual sales. Well, here is a report from Havard Business School and UNC that states that no way it affected sales. Want to improve sales? Start introducing quality into your artists!Wonder
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A little work makes uni students brighter
Monday, March 29, 2004 11:20 PM
A little work makes uni students brighterhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/29/1064819870804.html.... A study has found that students who take on part-time jobs during term perform better in their exams than those who just stick to studying. ...
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Anti-virus
Monday, March 29, 2004 11:09 PM
If only life can be so simple :)
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7.16pm in B3.50
Monday, March 29, 2004 10:54 PM
Random bits:   Decided to call it a day. Spent the whole day on XML Scheme and preparing for tomorrow CSE3211: Handheld App and OS tute.   Learnt about XPath and XSLT in this morning CSE4500 lecture. CSE5250: Multimedia Retrieval was cancelled
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A Singaporean Tricked a Nigerian Email Scammer
Friday, March 26, 2004 7:27 AM
Im sure all of us here have received those Nigerian email bank scams invitations. Well, there is a Singaporean here who returned  the favour and tricked this crook with pictorial proof!MUST READ here!
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My Unified Timetable
Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:25 AM
My unified timetable is now online here (47kb, pdf)
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Tutoring CSE3211
Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:24 AM
I have tutored this unit for about 4 weeks. Just want to make a few comments (im not refering to my students)a) Its amazing how some brilliant students who knows how to work around a Linux environment can stumbled at a Windows interface.b) You should
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Joke ;)
Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:10 AM
Hey! Before anyone start branding me as a Catholic fanatic, often enuff I "bash" (make fun of) my own religion actually almost all the time .... A priest was driving along and saw a nun on the side of the road. He stopped and offered her a lift which
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Migration Notice
Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:09 AM
Take noteThis blog is moving from http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/askani/MyBlog.aspxto http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/Bernard/MyBlog.aspxBer
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The Middle East Crisis
Thursday, March 25, 2004 2:20 AM
I have only 1 comment to say about the current situation in the Middle East.An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind- Mahatma Gandhi
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Since my last blog
Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:57 AM
It has certainly been awhile since my last blog and Im painfully aware that I havent been updating my blog for awhile.
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What is a need/want?
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:10 PM
What is a 'need' and what is a 'want'? In most instances, I can differentiate ... but my weakness is CDs.I have often told my friends ... the first thing I want to setup when I have my own place is my audio room.A good sound system is terribly important
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Underworld Killings in Melbourne
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:43 AM
Living in Melbourne has been great. Sometimes its hard to believe that such things are constantly happening in Melbourne. An incident like this is a good wakeup call sometimes.Underworld braces for next murder  
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Seminar OVER!
Saturday, March 20, 2004 3:33 AM
Finally I got through with my presentation successfully and people said it went well and was interesting. I couldnt bear staying in the seminar room and rushed out of it once it was over.In my mind, I was saying this prayer and running back to my office.
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New Desktop
Friday, March 19, 2004 7:02 AM
Blogging for the first time on my new desktop in uni of course. But hey! Massive jump in capabilities. P4 2.8GHz with 496MB of RAM .... making the inner geek in me jump for joy! Wait! It has a CDRW drive too!!!Bliss. Going to watch a movie this evening
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6.30am in Honours Room
Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:47 PM
The settings in Honours room has been moved a bit to accomodate the arrival of the new Honours and Masters by Minor Thesis students.Got up at 5am this morning to write my content for this afternooon's seminar presentation. Got the slides
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How to uninstall VS.NET 03
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 5:33 AM
I want to uninstall and do a fresh installation of VS.NET 03. But I am not too sure which way should I do about to do it?There are three components I want to remove, IIS, .NET Framework and VS.NET 03.Any suggestions in which order they should be
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.NET - You dun love me anymore?
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:13 PM
Sorry to be a whinger being first blog of the morning.Monday: Had a dicussion with my supervisor about my project, fired up VS 03 --> VB.NET, and the controls took AGES to render on the form designer and even longer to compile. Mind you the form has
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INDONESIAN ELECTION RALLIES
Monday, March 15, 2004 10:52 PM
WHAT'S ATTRACTING SCEPTICAL INDONESIANS TO ELECTION RALLIES?It's the free T-shirts they're after (ber: err look like our Indo neighbours are just like SG-eans)http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,240497,00.html?
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How much biscuits can you get for $12
Monday, March 15, 2004 10:43 PM
Kahlua Slice x4 +Tia Maria Tim Tamsx 2 = A$12 Mail to SG + 30 = $42Better dun let my parents see, otherwise ... heheh
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What a beautiful day
Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:02 AM
As the day drew slowly to a close. I just reflect what a beautiful day today was. You dun get much cool fine and bright days in Melbourne.Although I havent be out in the city etc still I got some admin and studies done.Wish I have a digital cam to take
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Sunday 14 Mar
Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:24 AM
Gone for mass this morning at 8.30am, had a basketball with my neighbours from 10 till 11.20am. Haven't played basketball after army. Still got a bit of old self there. heheeHad lunch in the local chinese takeaway, came back to office to blog all these
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Friday
Friday, March 12, 2004 8:58 AM
Finally its the weekend.I have got thru my first week of tutes, tutoring, lectures and staff meeting.And I still managed to squeeze some exercise time. Actually I need more research time and development power!Thanks be to God ... I think I should go for
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Research is Important
Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:52 AM
Ok ... I have complained a lot about my research work so much, but still I enjoy the opportunity to do research. Research is so crucial ... without research there is no innovation ... no innovation means no improvement ... err improvement should not be
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Upgrade or Downgrade
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:18 AM
I think I have joined the ranks of time poor, but monetarily decent. Earning money but not enuff timeto work on myself.Wah lau ... this looks very bad sia ... how can put this on blog and let everyone see?Anyway, Andrea and I have came up with motivation
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Will this blog die out?
Sunday, March 07, 2004 6:30 AM
The Sunday Straits Times has an interesting take on the growth of blogs. Very situable to be mentioned here.I guess for any blog to continue to live, there must be an audience who are reading it. My dear audience, let your presence be felt.Nuff said.
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My new precious
Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:18 AM
Since I am doing regular running these days decided to get myself a pair of Asics shoes. Asics (NIHON ICHI-BAN! actually made in China), Brooks and New Balance are suppose to be the best in the market for running shoes. I guess I got some feeling towards
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Excuse moi
Friday, March 05, 2004 10:14 PM
Would not be blogging very constantly from now until Mar 19, until my CoolCampus presentation is over.Meanwhile, I am involved in:a) My Honours Thesis b) CoolCampus Summer Scholarshipc) International Mews Resident Support Team (as a RA)d) Overseas Student
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Out of office message
Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:58 AM
Because the weather outside is bright sun and a top of 34 degrees. Bernard is currently out of his office and heading for a swim. He will be back later in the afternoon.Thought of the day, how effectively is your current anti-virus software? I update
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Too fast
Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:29 PM
Dear Padre,Thanks for giving me a call this afternoon. It was a very nice and thoughtful gesture.This summer and the start of semester 1 has been extremely busy for me. With all the things such as the receiptent of the summer scholarship, student union
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Happy Tree Friends
Tuesday, March 02, 2004 1:17 AM
Web site of the day (http://www.happytreefriends.com/)The flash cartoons are best viewed after lunch ;)
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The Heat Is On ...
Monday, March 01, 2004 11:39 PM
Today's weather forcast 32C ... excellent ... I'm in my shorts in campus today.CoolCampus scholarship presentation is due on Mar 19, man! ... that is something serious, I need to work on.Received a letter from the Vice-Chancellor's office, I was thinking
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Day 1 of the new school term
Monday, March 01, 2004 3:44 AM
Its the first day of school.Gonna be lots of freshies around, plus the familiar old faces. Actually it wouldn't have meant much difference to me since I am in Uni 7 days a week.What marks the difference is now I am a tutor plus a student. Pretty cool.
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Ahhhh ...
Monday, March 01, 2004 12:01 AM
Just finished my first tute for CSE3211, it was easy with any first tute class. Settle some admin, introduced the subject, the subject web site, my role, responsibilties and expectations, introduced the .NET Framework, referred them to gotdotnet-quickstart,
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