B.W.C.D.

Music does seem to affect dreams – maybe it’s the associations I have with those tracks. I’m still tweaking my playlists.

What was happening last night?! The thunder and lightning looked and sounded like they were about to blast something apart. I really freaked out.

There goes another great teacher who we’ll not be forgetting for a long, long time – in fact, quite a few of those who went (got dragged) to China with us are leaving. I hope the world is as small as it is, and that some of us’ll bump into the others here and there.
Oh, let’s make some mementos – but mass-signed cards aren’t lasting and e-cards fare worse. How?

I’ve finally bought toner for my laser printer. Went to Funan from Nanyang – Bus 174 from Opp The Chinese High School (Dunearn Road) to St Andrew’s Cathedral (North Bridge Road) takes 40 minutes, at Saturday noontime.
Then, I dropped by SLS to look for USB-serial adapters. Decided not to buy before consulting Google and friends; looks like the (expensive) Keyspan one should work, as well as those using one of those Prolific chipsets. I saw one of those no-name, one hand long ones at this shop on the sixth floor, but there was a cheaper one there at $25 for a short stub of a converter.

I might buy a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3, actually. Web Premium.

I’m very behind work, too. So, please don’t bug me for outstanding things, I’m usually quite aware of those and I’m trying to schedule those things around strict mugging lists.

Church is doing a paradigm shift from next week onwards; lots of major and minor changes have already been implemented today. That includes a new newsletter format and layout, which I’m absolutely not amused at. There is much room for improvement – doing a mockup of today’s article, with a nicer look, in InDesign will be my next project after exams.
I hope they remember to let out the clutch.

I learnt this a long time ago, but I just found a name for it – the Valsalva maneuver. The Torr is another unit of pressure.

Check out NLB’s eDatabases, some of those which claim to require Citrix now don’t; they’re using libproxy. Doesn’t work for Lexis/Nexis, but it’s alright for Brittanica. Speaking of which, Brittanica was next to useless in helping me find out more about the Human Development Index today.

Another project for after the exams, get my ‘fileserver’ up and running. Once that’s done, I’ll start buying hard drives. Can Linux ‘convert’ RAID arrays upwards, say, from one drive to two drives in RAID 1 to three drives in RAID 5, and beyond? I know reiserfs can grow, LVM partitions can be grown, new volumes can be added to LVM groups, but what’s the last part?

Those modular jacks for Cat 5/5e/6 network cabling can be had for $7 for 50. Something like 14 cents each.

Grapefruit

iTunes 7 has an interesting quirk. In Album View, if you click on the “Album [by xx]” label, it toggles between “Album”, “Album by Artist”, and “Album by Year”, instead of toggling the ascending/descending arrow. For that, you need to aim for the arrow.
Not very intuitive. Took me a while to figure out why my albums weren’t arranged by year.

stikkit is quite cool. IMified too.

It’s time to study, hard.

Pineapple

I am supremely annoyed at myself. I popped home early to try and get a decent lunch, some R&R, and relieve my sleep debt – then my two naps are rudely interrupted, lunch was decidedly uninteresting, I didn’t have a nice thriller to occupy me, then I’m rushing a presentation through the night thanks to that. Which increases my sleep debt way more than what I’ve neutralised.

hug? by Defies [dA] is really cute.

Second for VICOMP, mostly thanks to broken scoring in the finals. À l’année prochaine. We will win.

MSP

I finished Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde this afternoon. it’s the sequel to The Eyre Affair. The storyline is really quite amusing.

I wore the corporate socks today morning; they make my shoes feel very different. They’re thick and tight, not very pleasing to the foot.

Dream on.

Kat

I hear that the buggy and undebugged system doesn’t pay tax nor have a license to venture outside the compound – so don’t expect to see it trundling off to the automated teller or something.

On an utterly unrelated note, I am not amused. Can I sleep in and hide in bed instead?

Schwinck

I think things are really going downhill – and even the most dedicated people are falling off the go-cart. This is definitely not a good sign.

Something that’s been spreading like wildfire in the community is the Case of the Corporate Socks. I think it’s really, really amusing.

I still don’t quite understand the concept of resonance. I think it differs for each concrete block or something. Then, how can we achieve that via bouncing to a metronome?
Maybe trial and error is a good idea.

Piano was really good today. The fourth of Brahms’ Seven Fantasias for piano is just beautiful.

Cheeses

Here’s some laughter therapy – on Powerpoint presentations.

Nice magnetic clothes hangers. Careful with those magstripe cards. Oh, and someone reinvents (or rather, revariates) the toaster.

Lowercase? That just means it was more convenient for the typesetter to reach for.. here’s the real thing.

The rotis typeface is quite cool.

WordPress gets a bunch of new servers, and the photos look damn good.

Figs

Oh my. Exams are starting soon, and I owe a lot of homework.

I was helping someone migrate things from an Extron switch to a Kramer VP-84. My conclusion? Kramer rocks. Seriously.
That Extron box had things inside out – you pick the input (12 on that one), and the outputs which that input is routed to will light up. In short, it’s totally counter-intuitive, and there’s no fast way to see what’s routed to a particular output. Oh, and it’s on RGBS instead of RGBHV.

I’m giving MusicIP a spin.

Ace of Spades

blueflavor has a nice article about firefighting. Really, go read it, it’s quite relevant to everyone in any kind of organization.

apc has a review of Office 2008 and the ‘Escher’ engine.

Informationweek takes a look at the new bits in Mac OS X Server 10.5.

LaCie 526 Monitor – 25.5″ of goodness.

Skype 2.6 Beta for Mac has nice stuff – it’s nearly reaching the level of Skype for Windows, but hopefully still looking good.

Can you tell the difference between a 128kbps AAC file (the stuff iTunes converts your tracks into for your iPod [shuffle]), and ‘the original’?

Drobo.

Someone replaces a Macbook’s display. Heh, but I don’t have such good sources as to get the panel for USD 165..

That persistent pain in the right side of my neck is annoying the hell out of me.. it spikes up every now and then. I wonder if stress/anxiety was the trigger. It seems to be somewhere in the middle.. it’s not exactly a sore throat kind of pain. A couple of fingers to the right from the centre.

Skunk

Imagini is quite cool.

The socks – sigh. Excuse me while I think about the most budget way to survive a week in penance for handing over that cash >_>
Go read the school’s Girls’ Guide. I think, it might just explain why we’ve got one more blue-yellow-red thing on us.

Have you seen my thumbdrive? I need it back. Really. I last saw it on Wednesday afternoon in my shirt pocket – I’m not sure where it is now. It sure wasn’t in its case when I got home.

Rugby’s on Monday. Woe, woe, I make an appointment for Tuesday to avoid clashing with something else on Monday, and here comes this. Meterological Office, give us some lightning strike advisories or something.