I’ve decided to make an attempt at learning Japanese. I’ve wanted to for a while, and I saw an “Instant Immersion Japanese” pack at Costco, which boasted of learning Japanese fast. After 10 minutes of the first audio lesson, these were my thoughts.…
I’m sure that we all have our favorite childhood cereals. My favorites were always Corn Flakes, Shreddies, Rice Crispies and Cheerios. Things change, however; I haven’t had corn flakes for a LONG time and I didn’t see them in Loblaws or Costco recently.…
I’ve been waiting for my new graphics card to arrive since before Christmas!!! I even sold my ex-graphic card a few weeks ago in anticipation of a timely delivery. Boy did I pwn myself well; I haven’t touched a game since January 12th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…
I went to launch my current favorite Facebook application, u-arcade’s pacman, and was greeted with this cheerless message.
Dear users – we have been asked by Bandai to remove Pacman from Facebook. So around 2-3pm PST today we will be taking Pacman off the application and replacing it with other games.…
Some words of reflection on taking the time to appreciate the little things of life.
I was cruising around on ebay during the weekend and saw an offer that I could not resist. It was too good to be true: The user had a perfect rating, and an item whose very name would cause most hardware fanatics to drool.…
Math problems often circulate on social media as an engagement starter. Here's one of them.
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys
That’s what glared at me from the monitor of my brother’s PC on friday. It pretty much means that Windows XP is unable to communicate with the filesystem, because this file has become corrupted or was deleted.…
I’ve been quiet recently. I’ve also been working like a madman recently. long sleepless nights, and ramming speed pace during the day as well, but at last it’s done. I present to you, CUTTS
So it’s not “quite” finished yet. It’s fully functional but I would like to add a few more aesthetic features, and find any obvious bugs.…
I’ve been neglecting my blog recently. Gommen nasai. So, I had some interesting mail; Phil’s postcard from Kenya arrived, including insightful gems of wisdom. I’ll keep those in mind should I ever decide to tour Africa. My laptop also arrived – yes that’s right, I finally won a laptop bid on Ebay.…