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June 2004 - Posts

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:51 PM
Im down to level 2 - after safety needs. Need to look for a place soon. My current lease ends on July 5. Initial plans to move to a mate's place went sour. You reckon my supervisor will buy my story for not turning up with a new chapter for my thesis?
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More pictures from weekend in Sydney
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:03 AM
Here are more pictures from the weekend in Sydney, provided by the Clayton campus SA.
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CD of the Day ...
Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:20 AM
Any jazz piano vocal fan?Nina Simone's finest hour from Verve label. The piano is one of my fav instrument ... close to Reflection APIs ... hahah :P Geek mode.Suppose to be meeting my surpervisor this morning. According to the School Office staff, she
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1.39am in B3.50 - Honours Room
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:46 PM
Finally theSpoke have included a direct button to attach emoticons ... hey .. they dun work on mine .. grrrrIts 1.39am, what is Bernard up to? Ever since the semester approaches towards a conclusion, my sleeping patterns and gym timings have been severly
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A Dig in the Past
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:40 AM
Just going thru some of the old powerpoint slides I have and found something on the Tablet SDK 1.7. Im looking forward to 1.7 release cos it will include support for windows forms controls hosted on HTML (ie allow you to ink a control on a web page, isn't
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Anyone got a 100 bucks to spare?
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:30 AM
Pss .. I really like this pair of sneakers ... I guess I hook on the sneakers culture now. If you got a 100 bucks to spare, want to pass me some so that I can get a pair these sneakers for myself (see below). Otherwise ...please spare a buck for your
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How does Google work?
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:26 AM
An early paper on the architecture of Google, can be found here. But it's rather old, so you can safely assume lots of changes have been made. But still, its interesting to read how PageRank was first conceived.
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3331th visit
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:23 AM
This marks the 3331th visit to "Another Day in the Antz Farm". 2/3 is probably by myself ... just kidding. Thanks to all visitors esp those who left comments (good or no good - all comments are welcome).As at 12noon, I'm done with all my coursework studies.
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Today's Lunch
Monday, June 21, 2004 2:57 AM
I had such a good lunch that I decided I should blog about it.I have two serves of wholemeal sandwhiches (ie 4 slices)with tomatoes, cheese, tuna and lite leg ham with my mega starbucks mug filled with orange juice.Yummy! Best part of all, brought all
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A New Milestone
Sunday, June 20, 2004 11:41 PM
Last Saturday, my trainer suggested I should increase my running distance. I could tweak it either with my incline or distance ... so I decided to go for distance. Did 4km this morning, and it wasn't hard at all. Although I have admit I went pretty slow
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Bloody Sat
Saturday, June 19, 2004 10:35 AM
Spent more than $250 today ... there is the proof :P
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Jazz Highlight
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:42 PM
Now Listening:Ben Webster from the Verve's Quiet Now Series ... (check it out here) its pretty old collection but filled with classics ;) but I recommend for those who can't sleep or just want to slip into some more comfortable before they call it a day.
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NS cut by 6 months
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:38 PM
Wah! Headlines news ... National Service cut down by 6 months. Times are changing man ... about 6 months after I left the service, they introduced an allowance payrise after how many zillions years. These days even a Private earns about the same amount
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Web Services (or Remoting) to the Rescue
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:37 AM
This article sounds like a wonderful opportunity for companies like Microsoft to advance the acceptance of web services.See S'pore plans $50m shipping system overhaul Ok, it may sound a bit simplistic but what strike me is the hetrogenous and
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Today is Queen's Birthday - But Uni is open as usual
Monday, June 14, 2004 1:34 AM
Came to Uni and there was external security personnels around. There is a jewish event held under my building. Maybe I can have some jewish food for lunch ...Stepped into office, and the fire alarm went off. Everyone in the building had to be evacuated.
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ITOKO OMEDETO GOZAIMASU !!!!
Sunday, June 13, 2004 3:14 AM
Just received news that my older female cousin is getting married next year.Congrats Selena and En-Hao :)I am so happy for you =)
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Contentious Topic: Is Managed Code Bad for the Art of Programming
Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:54 AM
Im just thinking after reading punzki's blog entry here about becoming a spoiled programmer because he has gotten use to managed code. Im sure he is a good bloke and good programmer.Just bouncing off that statement, it makes me think how well
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Breaky with Leona
Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:41 AM
After mass this morning, I had breakie with Leona at a cafe near our place. She had pancakes with apples and cinnamon with hot chocolate while I had toasted sandwich with ham, cheese and tomatoes and strong skinny mocha.The cafe was really nice .... they
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Monash University Honours Final Presentation Take 2
Friday, June 11, 2004 3:40 AM
Oh well ... all is not lost.Just try to do as much as I can and present to the school what I have done so far.Its not a finished product. But let's see how it goes ...shi bu liao wan ....
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Monash University Honours Final Presentation
Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:41 AM
<personal ranting - not advise for general consumption, just need to write it down>Presentation next Friday.First presenter - Me.Content - ZEROReason - I have nothing to show the school. Because I have lost the plot and took on too much commitment.
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Graduates 'failing the uni of life'
Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:39 AM
EMPLOYERS are sick and tired of graduates who cannot function in the workplace ... ... "I'd have to say, in my experience, a lot of my very best people have very poor education. "People that are very well educated and quite intelligent sometimes have
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Eye and Work
Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:26 AM
Another day packed with work ahead.There are marking that must be done by today (self imposed deadline).Thesis writeupPresentation slides to be drawn upMy eyes are going a bit cranky, I see flashes of orange on the monitor. My glasses are not very comfortable,
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Gym | Showers | Toilet | Lift (1 /4)
Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:15 AM
The GymGym as my 3rd Place There is a thought that gym is the 3rd place for many people. The 1st and 2nd being home and office. The 3rd place serves various functions but I will not go into that. But anyway, the gym is a place where I can
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Going somewhere away from my office
Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:06 AM
Completed my CSE5250 Multimedia Retrieval Technologies assignment this morning and had a fairly long interview with my supervisors.I presented her with a plan and my engagements such as marking and exam revision to come.We came to a conclusion that I
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Gmail
Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:07 AM
I'm on Gmail .... just received an invite to trial gmail.Hehehe ... one thing I noticed, its quite troublesome to delete an email.But hey! Why delete emails when you got 1GB :P
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Dongli 88.3
Sunday, June 06, 2004 12:30 AM
Long lonely days in office these days have been spent in company with online radio streams.I reckon its going to rack up a big internet bill on my uni account. Let's just hope the Faculty will it slip pass. Monash Uni has this system of internet quota
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New CDs in My Collection
Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:57 AM
Bought three new cds after giving a presentation in the city to the company that sponsored my trip to Gold Coast.^^ Japanese + Philharmonic.... 'nuff said ^^ OM Records, a really good US beats label. ^^ Sorry I'm a sucker for French music :P
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Mass Destruction
Saturday, June 05, 2004 12:13 AM
Faithless - Mass Destruction Lyrics'its one of my fav songs at the moment, go and pick up the single :) With a long range weapon or suicide bomber Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction Whether you're stowaway's son or BBC 1 Dis-information
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Toxic dust on computers linked to disease
Friday, June 04, 2004 7:34 AM
Toxic dust" found on computer processors and monitors contains chemicals linked to reproductive and neurological disorders, according to a new study.... here
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A higher degree ...
Friday, June 04, 2004 7:29 AM
"You cannot expect much technical help from your supervisor for any higher research degree ..." a lecturer once said, "especially for PhD ... if you meet with any problem, your supervisor will tell you its your problem. Your supervisor will discuss the
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4 June 2004 To-do List
Friday, June 04, 2004 1:06 AM
# Multimedia Retrieval Essay (Due Mon)# Prepare for GV Jones Presentation (Due Tomorrow)# Draft Thesis Chapters Delivery Plan (Due this Weekend)# Write Implementation and Architecture Chapter (Due this Weekend)# Mark Computer Systems & Handheld Applications
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A new record
Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:43 PM
Met a new record in the gym this eveningI did 2.4km in 10.57mins (typo WAS:sec). 13mins plus for 3km.Its an improvement :)
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What is Visual Foxpro?
Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:37 PM
I have visited the official MS Visual Foxpro site, I cant figure out what is the difference between Visual Foxpro and Access?Anyone?
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2997 visits to this blog entry so far
Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:36 PM
This blog has been read 2997 times. Sometimes I wish I can drop an email of thanks and hello to those milestone readers. Anyway, is there anyway we may have a visitor's log generated at theSpoke server side? Privacy issues?Anyway, I got a profiler written
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Its Winter!
Wednesday, June 02, 2004 6:03 AM
Yup, today is the second day of winter. The wind have been howling like crazy.Its the last week of uni for the coursework students. Its business as usual for everyone else.Marking unit test this week ... gee ... I cant believe I amreally marking test
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