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Piles of work
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:19 PM

I had been at a training today and was not in school since tues to this thusday... Amazing how things pile up. I'm just like away from school for 1 day, today and i had been receiving calls from all over the place... So in the end, i spent half my

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Ready to Rock!
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:49 PM

Today's a great day over at Microsoft. I had been running between two different locations as i have a training as well as some sessions at the Launch of SQL 2005, VS 2005 & BizTalk 2006. But it was great fun! During the evening, it was community

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Expoits without firewall
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:42 PM

I'm at a training now and it seems that the network here is filled with network viruses especially expoiting some of my server ware... Thank god i have a desktop firewall & antivirus installed. =) Seems that i've always been too compfortable under

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Had been too busy with things
Monday, November 28, 2005 9:27 PM

I had been too busy with office work, school work, community work and etc. i guess i should try to keep myself more effecient by going to places to do my stuff where i could not be disturbed, yet being able to study well... i guess the place would

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Sundays should be off
Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:59 AM

I have been talking to a trainer-friend of my friend yesterday and we were discussing about work times. One thing is that i discovered that i do not pioritise my time well.. Sundays should be an OFF day. But i had been working really hard on Sundays

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Apple's iTune flaw
Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:05 PM

Researchers at eEye Digital Security had discovered a critical flaw in apple's iTune which could allow for remote code execution. I was just complaining posts ago that i do not want to have iTunes bundled with QuickTime. Now my greatest fear had arrived.

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Going Research
Friday, November 18, 2005 8:08 PM

I have spoken to some really nice people today and was asking them if they had any connections with the universities where i could participate in any research activities... Guess what? I think i'm really lucky and there seems to be some... YAY!!! I do

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Hi Again!
Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:02 PM

I had not been blogging for days... Wow... I had been really busy and exhausted over the past few days.. I am working and studying at the same time... So that explains why... But i totally enjoy it... =) I would be signing up for a couple of courses

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Future of OS
Sunday, November 13, 2005 7:50 AM

The future of Operating Systems are bright. With Vista launching in about a years time, there lots for us developers to learn. I'm pretty sure it would be extremely secure and cool! =) But would the future of operating systems be juz in a box? I doubt

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Apple's Violating Anti-Trust
Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:10 PM

I am pretty frustrated today about apple's strategy to bundle iTunes with Quicktime player. The most interesting thing is they have this ad about iPod in it. Previously, i have a pretty great impression on iPod. Now, i really hate the idea of it. They

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You've gotta book my time...
Friday, November 11, 2005 6:38 AM

Recently, i have been working with various group of people over a wide variety of projects. and some of them have been constantly telling me "you must spend more time with us". If you look at my time table, you would find that its pretty packed with both

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Visual Studio 2005 Installation
Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:19 AM

I have just picked up a copy of the full VS2005 Professional cd today and its pretty cool! It now comes in a DVD. Its really huge during installation. Take about 40 minutes to install it on my tablet with Centrino running with 1.5gb of memory. but its

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MS Defender
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:09 PM

Microsoft will be renaming the Microsoft Anti-Spyware to "Defender" which would be launched sometime at the end of this year. Defender would also be built right into vista, giving protection right from start-up. That's something great! In Vista,

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3 Key Tenents cited by Ray Ozzie
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:04 PM

The three "key tenets" cited by Microsoft's Ray Ozzie as driving the changes at the company: "The power of the advertising-supported economic model. Online advertising has emerged as a significant new means by which to directly and indirectly fund

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Great Dinner
Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:04 PM

I had just have an excellent dinner with some folks and we had a guest from overseas. They were all non-singapore-born professionals and i did have an excellent time with them discussing various topics from IT, Business, politics to culture. It was indeed

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Tired Day @ School
Monday, November 07, 2005 7:21 PM

Today's the first day since school re-opened and vacation officially ended. Lucky me! This semester's .NET .NET and more .NET. All my subjects except 2 are .NET subjects... Yay!!!! Although school's really fun, i'm extremely proud of myself today as

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Market not as bad as it seems to be
Sunday, November 06, 2005 4:36 PM

I was just at my boss's place this morning and we were talking about how to do up his website cum crm cum erp. then after which, one of his friends dropped by and he introduced me to his friend. so i was like.. "hi.. nice to meet you" then suddenly,

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Into Research
Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:29 PM

I had been going deep into research of late and had been reading a paper today.. its pretty amazing how things are going and the future of IT looks bright... It seems that there would be alot of great things coming up in no time. =) Any research papers

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shopping @ IKEA
Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:22 PM

I was at IKEA this afternoon to do some shopping for my room... To my delight, my 3 big-bags full of items only cost me like... $40 Thats really affordable & economical!!! I saw the bed i had always wanted to purchase. but i wasnt able to get it

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Difference between Asian Bosses and American Bosses
Friday, November 04, 2005 7:12 PM

I have worked for Asian Bosses and seen how other whom had worked for Asian bosses complain and swear at their bosses. I count myself pretty lucky to work for this really nice guy (asian) who's not exactly like other Asian bosses. But exceptions aside,

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Express Editions Benefits Students
Friday, November 04, 2005 2:12 PM

Microsoft did a really good job with making .NET 2.0 as accessible to students as possible with the Express editions. I would say that these are certainly not powerful for use in the enterprise environment but definitely good for the hobbyist and acad

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Had been doing too many things for free
Friday, November 04, 2005 12:31 PM

Of late, i have discovered that i had been doing far too many things (such as webdesigns) for free which is talking too much of my time that i occationally had to say "no" to other paid projects. I guess i should really cut down on these free-projects

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Backache
Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:52 PM

I had been having this really acute backache for quite sometime now.. Sometime it comes on, and sometime it just goes off... I have no idea what's happening. I guess it has got to do with my life-style, the food i eat and how i laze on the floor when

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Is this the end of the Singaporean Gentleman?
Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:21 PM

An forum thread that i find really interesting after i have read it.. http://www.hotspots.com/cgi/board/thread.cgi?id=10164&page=1

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Striking a balance between profession and lifestyle
Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:05 AM

i had been talking to a number of people and they have all been commenting on one thing... "Do you have a life?" That kinda make it stumble "eii.... i have no idea!".. haha.. coming to think of it, i really do not have a good balance between my professional

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Getting a New bag?
Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:09 PM

I am becoming increasingly mobile with meeting to participate in and events to attend. I am really in need of a smart phone and a good bagpack... But should i wait for a little more time before i settle to purchasing anything? *ponders*

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SQL2000 Exploit
Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:52 AM

I have SQL 2000 Server SP4 installed on my computer. But something alarming is that a message popped up from my anti-virus software telling me that a network virus had been detected and blocked. Guess wad! When i traced the source IP of that packet,

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Strawberry Helps u sleep well
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:46 PM

I juz hear over the radio that Strawberry helps u be able to sleep when u cant sleep... i don't know how true is that.. but i was thinking... IT professionals should not have trouble sleeping... haha.. lol...

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Happy Deepavali
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:24 PM

Happy Deepavali to all whom are celebrating it. It sure is a wonderful day out for me. The only day in a couple of months that i really get to go out and hang out with friends... haha... Special thanks to YX for the day... =)

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Labtop at US$398?
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:07 AM

Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard will likely celebrate this Thanksgiving season by attempting to crush their competitors with low-price desktops and notebooks, according to a Web site that tracks bargains. Read here for more: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5924640.htm

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