tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54867102011-04-22T04:27:58.863+10:00Another one of my attempts at maintaining a 'regular' online presence. Let's see how it goes...d4noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486710.post-1058626627861815872003-07-20T00:57:00.000+10:002003-07-20T00:57:07.733+10:00

Having a laptop is proving to be a great personal asset. I carry and use it almost everywhere I go - at work, on the train, at home, and uni when it starts. I'm still exploring useful ways in which to use it. Currrently, its most important use is in keeping all the reading material I gather from the Net. My reading collection is steadily growing into a very useful and personalised library of

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On Thursday, it was Neville's birthday. Later that day I got two phone calls from Derrick and Wanis inviting me to their birthday parties (both clashing on Saturday night). Then at the mind meld I found out that Alan would be celebrating his birthday on Sunday. Then I remembered that Lloyd and Elackl had their birthdays last week. And I have a feeling that there are others that I am missing too.

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I came across an article today that applied the economic law of diminishing returns, to certifications. Besides stating the obvious (that there's a point when more certifications is just not worth it), it got me thinking about my work ethic. By nature, I tend to overdo things - to invest too much effort. In the end, the outcomes do not justify the extra effort. So while it is necessary to invest

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I do not have anything interesting to say today, but I felt compelled to make a blog entry anywayz. What's up? Yesterday I bought Jackie Chan's "Battlecreek Brawl" on DVD for 10 bucks! I'm looking forward to watching that tonight. Tomorrow I'm cleaning Hiromi's apartment and packing her things up while she tries her best to look for another apartment. I'm actually looking forward to doing it

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It just keeps getting better! Today I received an email notification from Dell informing me that my Inspiron 500m has been shipped! This is much early than I expected. Based on their estimates, it should arrive at my doorstep sometime next week! I can't wait!

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Snowboarding at Thredbo this past weekend turned out to be really awesome. My unexpected back spasm didn't bother me at all and this time I was really able to get the hang of shifting my weight back and forth to glide down the slopes. Overall, another great winter snowboarding trip! It all started at 6:30pm at Bay 15 of the Central Station bus stop. The OzSnowAdventures double decker bus pulled

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I woke up this morning at 5am, I thought my back had broken. It killed. I couldn't move my torso without muscular convulsions shooting through my back. Great, I thought. Why the hell does something like this have to happen the morning that I am about to leave for snowboarding! Of all the times that I need to depend on my body for mobility and motion, why now? Why not all those other work days

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I'm going skiing tomolo after work! Well, snowboarding actually (I always make this mistake!). Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it. Knowing that I'll be tumbling down the Thredbo slopes this weekend is keeping me happy when my mind takes a break from work. Then next week I've planned to look into getting ADSL setup at home in preparation for the laptop that should be coming the following

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I came across a pretty nice site, a bible site actually, that had some pretty kewl daily quotes. Here's today's... "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour, to console him for what he is." Despite being mildly sexist in its exclusion of women (who still apply!), it's a nice quote. I'll laugh at my mistakes, but I'll also use my imagination to set goals

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Here is an interesting idea for blog entries...an annotated list of online articles that I come across each day (or however often I can manage). It would be good capture of interesting articles for future reference, just like Cory said in her article below. My Blog, My Outboard Brain An interesting blogging article written by the author of "Essential Blogging". She describes blogging as an

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In an admittedly half-baked attempt at researching ways to enable visitors to respond to blog entries, I came across a pretty kewl commenting service offered by Haloscan that is both quick and easy to setup and use. There are of course other services around like Backblog around but it just happened to be the first one I stumbled across. I just wanted to get something up and running quickly to get

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Well, here I go again... for the third time. That's how many times I will have attempted to maintain any type of regular online presence. The first time was back in first year uni for an assignment I had to do for a subject called Informatics. The second time was about two years ago now while I was abroad as an exchange student in Japan. The main idea for that site was to keep friends and family

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