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Adventure Learning
Friday, September 30, 2005 9:33 PM

Today's a great day at the Adventure Learning site. I was extremely quiet today. I have no idea why. Probably after being exhausted the previous night over the badminton game. But it was nice. Thanks Shieda and Jia Bao. Really appreciated when you called

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Game of badminton
Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:28 PM

I just came back home from a game of badminton in school with one of my friends. Although she's graduated, we keep in contact and she's a really nice girl as a friend. (wad were you thinking... lol). We were late by about 20 mins and were expecting to

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Is Your Antivirus safe?
Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:20 PM

If you think you antivirus is really safe? This is something that you might wana read Several AntiVirus programs do not scan filesnames that contain non-printable ASCII characters, in addition instead of blocking them they are simply ignored.

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Nice ice-cream after a hard day's work
Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:19 PM

A nice cup of ice-cream is a nice treat to myself after a busy morning. =) We have this really nice cafe in campus which is air-conditioned and serves great ice-cream. But the high is a little on the high side though. =)

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a day to remember
Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:11 PM

Today's definitely a day to remember in TP's IT and ENG school. We had a .NET day where we saw three speakers, Alan, Michael and Wee Hyong presenting on C# Express, WebDeveloper Express and SQL Express. It was an eye opener for a large majority of the

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A* Research
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:00 PM

I just came back from the I2R showcase+talk at the National University of Singapore. There are some pretty cool development work going on there and really deserves to be worked on. =) Shall try to return tomorrow to learn more. =) The admission fee is

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Office SP2
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:23 AM

There are a couple of updates today for the office suite, project, visio, onenote and outlook. Except for one look, the rest are all service pack 2 while the outlook update is for the JunkMail filter. Do download the updates ASAP. =)

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Meeting for .NET day
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:18 AM

Hmm.. I am about to go attend a meeting for tomorrow's .NET day at TP. This couple of weeks had been an extremely busy week. Would be going down to one of the govnt orgs later for some reason that i am still not sure. haha..

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Completion of task
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:37 PM

Finally i had completed the design works of a genre of ecommerce site which i had never touched before in my entire life. and the results was much better then i expected. although i am not satisfied with it though, i shall continue working on the code

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Gecko Browsers Exploit
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:20 AM

There's recently an exploit for Gecko based browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape. The lack of proper length and value check allows an attacker to cause a buffer overflow, thus causing a DoS or executing hostile code. The problem existed

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Challenging Task
Monday, September 26, 2005 9:55 PM

The most challenging task is that you are given a project to do that you have never done before, have no experience in it, yet have to do it to perfection and charge a high price for it. I am supposed to design something for kids and i have not done

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ISV Day
Monday, September 26, 2005 9:11 PM

Today i was doing a demo on Windows Vista at the ISV Day in Singapore. The amazing thing is that people don't really care about the latest technologies. They come to me just to get me to help them fill up the answers on the luckydraw. The questions are

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Shopping's Nice
Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:23 PM

Today's the first time i really shopped in a long long time. I went down to orchard road today (the NewYork of Singapore) to do some shopping. I really enjoyed shopping at Takashimaya, Isetan and Tangs. The staff there are really friendly, courteous and

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Running Short on cloths
Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:12 PM

Of late, i had discovered that i am really running short on cloths and should really start to do some shopping for cloths. I guess i shall go down to town or some mall to get myself some really cool business suites and street wear. Should really consider

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Palm adopts PocketPC OS
Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:27 PM

Hmm... Palm Inc. had finally decided that its no use to compete with Microsoft in the Mobile operating system market and adopt Microsoft's Pocket PC OS instead. A great victory for Microsoft. I feel that other vendors should follow suite and stop wasting

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Back in office again
Saturday, September 24, 2005 3:18 PM

It had been quite some time since i last came back to office. Its often that i come back only at weekends since i work from home most of the time. I was actually talking to my boss about a new idea which he could implement in the company and should it

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IT Trends
Friday, September 23, 2005 11:52 PM

I am beginning to feel that desktops might get phrased out one day as mobile computing is getting more advance & affordable, Smart phones such as PDA-phones taking over the current phone and WiMax possibly taking over the current WiFi and Home

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Vista cool stuff!
Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:22 PM

Microsoft Vista really has a lot of really cool features in it. Although some thing didnt work in Beta1, the idea really looks cool with the extremely cool interface and security features. LUA and Trusted Admin is the key features that all should

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Embarking on new route
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:58 PM

I would be embarking on a new direction in what i am doing. its goina be a really big change in life. Although i am not in a Phd or Masters course now, I have decided to go into research. Firstly, i would have to pick up the skills to do so first, and

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Events events and more events... I am loving it.. =)
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:54 PM

Wow.... This entire month is filled with events and conferences and i am simply loving it. I was thinking that this would be a real quiet month, but it appeared to be extremely busy one. And i am pretty delighted with it. About half of my time this month

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C# 3.0 Specs
Monday, September 19, 2005 3:00 AM

The C# 3.0 Specs had been released at PDC and its really cool... Now i have something to keep my eyes on... At least until i fall alseep reading it. =P

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Its time to get a new handphone.
Sunday, September 18, 2005 11:35 AM

Its about time i get a new mobile phone. I had lost my Nokia 7610 since the mid of the year, about 3 months back and i had been hesitating if i should get one new phone now (cos i am using my mom's old phone now) or should i be waiting for 3G to be popular

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Back-acheing
Sunday, September 18, 2005 2:41 AM

I have no idea why my back had been acheing for these couple of days. I guess i would have to blame it on my mattress. I am intending to change one that has better back support since i have been sitting all day staring at the computer screen, and it's

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Top 10 Most Prevalent Global Malware
Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:35 AM

1. JAVA_BYTEVER.A 2. ADW_BADBITOR.A 3. HTML_NETSKY.P 4. SPYW_GATOR 5. WORM_NETSKY.P 6. SPYW_DASHBAR.300 7. TSPY_SMALL.SN 8. WORM_ANIG.A 9. TROJ_BAGLE.CZ 10. JS_DLOADER.I

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I thought i was on holiday
Friday, September 16, 2005 4:36 PM

I was thinking. Aint I on holidays now? I should be free and have time to play around with my .NET stuff and read some of my books. But it appears to be a big NO. I have to prepare for two competitions, a couple of Microsoft events, a couple of

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A MUST Visit Site
Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:19 AM

This is a MUST-VISIT website. http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog. Its none-other then william tay's blog. He's a Microsoft's Regional Director & MVP for APAC Region. He's also the grandfather of webservices. =)

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My Tablet's Batteries crashed
Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:15 AM

Man! I cant believe it. Last night it was just doing fine and this morning, the battery of my tablet seems to be fault. Fortunately, i had an extra bat. else i would be out of range for until they repairs it. =(

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Exploit in Windows SP2 Firewall
Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:06 AM

Windows XP SP2 Firewall has list of allowed program in registry which are not properly protected from modification by a malicious local attacker.If an attacker adds a new key to the registry address of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\

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Back from Scott's Talk
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:47 PM

I just attended the talk by Scott (SUN's CEO). It was not as great as i had expected and people started leaving during the panel talk. But he did shared with the audience what the future of computing at SUN might be like. It was enriching though. But

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Back in office at last
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:26 PM

Finally i am back in office. Had been slacking too much lately and finally i am doing some productive stuff in office. I hope my project could be completed soon, well and nice. Yum! its lunch time now... hee... =)

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Super Laser Printer
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:54 AM

IBM has recently launched a printer capable of printing 330 pages per minute. Amazing! http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26095

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video games are kool!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:46 AM

I was juz playing a scoccer video game the entire day in the early part of the morning and evening to kill sometime and relax as i had my entire afternoon killed. Its had never been so fun... Video games are a really great way to kill of your time when

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Yawns... Tired.
Monday, September 12, 2005 4:12 AM

Finally i am back from the day of food and its like 1213am now... It's really tiring to be running around the entire day. I was actually enjoying the comfort of a message chair in my mom's friend's hotel room and it drove me crazy. Its so so so so so

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Food Day today!
Sunday, September 11, 2005 12:10 PM

Hmm... Today would be a eating day for me... haha... Would be receiving one of my malaysian guests in the morning and then off for food, and a dinner at night... sounds cool! I had been extremely un-productive these few days after my exams. Had been

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Digital Music Device Industry
Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:35 PM

It might seem that the future of the Personal Music Device industry won't be long to stay. With apple taking the first move to integrate its product on a Motorolla phone, i am not surprise to see more of these in the future. The leading headset maker

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Hi again
Saturday, September 10, 2005 6:11 PM

Hi again, Finally done with formatting my computer and installing most of the software. Still got lotsa stuff to do before being productive agian. =S I might be organizing a Student Champion BBQ of some-kind pretty soon! Hope it would take off

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Formatting Computer
Saturday, September 10, 2005 12:15 AM

I guess i would have to format my computer. I do not have any idea why it is occationally so slow. But its about time i format it so that i can get a fresh PC to do some new stuff. Thus my next post here would be via my newly formatted PC. hahaa... how

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Memory Utilities are Bad
Friday, September 09, 2005 3:59 PM

Memory Utilities are really bad things to use when you are performing tasks when you do not want to be disturbed. While i was busying replying posts on a forum, the memory utility suddenly poped up and try to reclaim as much memory as it could. The frustrating

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Just back from the JUGs UG Event
Friday, September 09, 2005 3:25 AM

I can came back from the a local usergroup event on CloudDB today. It was pretty exciting and interesting as we had two really cool guys from the IBM Product Team presenting to us on what is CloubDB and how it could make our development easier. I was

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Finally its over!
Friday, September 09, 2005 3:23 AM

Finally my final paper is over!!! It wasnt as difficult as i expected. But i did make a really foolish careless mistake costing me two marks.. =S But for now, ITS PARTY TIME!!! haha..

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Finaly paper! Yay!
Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:00 AM

Today would be my final paper on Data Structures and Algoithm. I am really excited to complete the paper, but really nervous to enter the examination hall. Wish me the best of luck. Exams's about 6 hours away. =S

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New Microsoft Keyboard
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:55 PM

WOW!!! A cool new keyboard from Microsoft. I would love to own one of these.. *drool*

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Regrets in life
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:24 PM

Sometimes, some things are too late to regret in life. I had just completed my Operating System and Object Oriented Analysis and Design papers today. I guess i am not going to do as well as i hoped for. I would say that i am the direct result in this

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Managing my home network as an enterprise?
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 5:54 PM

Hmm... I am really wondering if i should manage my home network security as though it is an enterprise network? Enforcing strict rules and running a ISA Server to filter out all the illigal traffic? Wow.. If i do so, that would mean that i would have

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My Start button is dead
Monday, September 05, 2005 10:44 PM

Interesting. My start buttons is dead! Not the start button on my keyboard, but the one on my desktop. Interesting. I guess there's something really wrong going on in my tablet PC. it seems to be extremely laggy and everything bad. I guess i would have

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Really bad at re-acting
Monday, September 05, 2005 10:33 PM

I guess I had been talking to the computer for too long a time that i seemed to be bad, really bad at reacting to real-life stuff. Although in my mind, i know what to do, in actions, i just don't know how to express myself. Apoligies for those whom might

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Database Systems Test
Monday, September 05, 2005 10:29 PM

Today i had my database systems test. I was pretty lucky to get such a do-able paper. I was expecting it to be much much more difficult then this. Thank god it wasnt. I had been extremely un-productive over the past 3 month. Or rather, for the whole

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Longhorn Finally
Monday, September 05, 2005 10:26 PM

Finally, i got my original copy of longhorn.... YAY! I would be playing around with it sometime next week and write lotsa blog articles about it. As much as i could.. =) I was wondering. Windows XP is already so powerful and stable. Would people migrate

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PDC 2005
Saturday, September 03, 2005 11:58 AM

Hmm... I really envy William Tay to be able to attend PDC2005... Its something i would love to attend, but current do not have the resources to. I will start saving up and make sure i make it to PDC2006. However, TechEdAsia2005 for a start this year

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