Once again, I dodged the bullet.
Once again, I delivered the job I was assigned to do. The job took 3-4 days from start to finish. It felt like 2 months to me. Why? Because I learned a lot more in those 4 days that could have taken me 2 months to learn. I went to bed at 6AM on the third and fourth days trying to figure out things I didn’t understand at the time.
With my luck, and help from good friends, I made it work on time. (Well, it was a day late actually..
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What did I get from this experience? Other than the fact that you shouldn’t have accepted the job before you know exactly how to do it, and nothing good can come out of me pass 3AM? I should find more help!
May 16, 2008 No Comments
Open source Windows 9x?
Who would have thought anybody would want to create an open source OS base on the dreadful Windows 95?
ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.
It’s kinda interesting. I might try it some time on my old computer.
Tags: WindowsXP, ReactOS, Windows, Open source
May 15, 2008 No Comments
I like this song a lot more all of the sudden
April 26, 2008 No Comments
สิทธิเสรีภาพบางประการที่น่าจับตามอง
การศึกษาเรื่องที่ถือกันว่าเป็นองค์ประกอบของความเป็นไทย ความเป็นตัวตนของเราเองจะยิ่งเห็นความแตกต่างชัดเจน อย่างเช่นเรื่องพุทธศาสนาในสังคมไทย เรื่องชาตินิยมไทย เรื่องสถาบันพระมหากษัตริย์ เป็นต้น หลายคนชอบพูดว่าฝรั่งจะมาเข้าใจเรื่องพวกนี้ได้ดีกว่าคนไทยได้ยังไงกัน คำกล่าวพรรค์นี้ก็มีส่วนถูกต้องอยู่ คือเหมือนเราเป็นปลาว่ายอยู่ในอ่างใบหนึ่ง คนที่ไม่ได้เป็นปลาอยู่ในอ่างใบเดียวกัน จะมารู้จักชีวิตในอ่างของเราได้ดีกว่าเราคงเป็นไปได้ยาก แต่ความอ่อนแอของความรู้ของเราก็อยู่ตรงที่ความเข้มแข็งนั่นแหละ คือรู้จักชีวิตในอ่างแบบปลาอยู่ในอ่างแค่นั้นแหละ เราจึงมักไม่ค่อยเข้าใจชาตินิยมของตัวเอง การศึกษาเรื่องพุทธศาสนาในสังคมไทยจึงติดกรอบที่ค่อนข้างจำกัด คนไทยเขียนถึงพระมหากษัตริย์เหมือนปลาที่ไม่เคยรู้จักชีวิตแบบอื่น ที่ไม่จำเป็นต้องอยู่ในน้ำ และเห็นว่าชีวิตท่ามกลางน้ำในอ่างใบนั้นวิเศษที่สุด
April 26, 2008 No Comments
All work and no play makes Note a dull boy
All work and no play makes Note a dull boy I’m bored and boring, yes. That’s what I’m feeling about myself right now.
I was watching (don’t laugh) American Idol where Andrew Loyd Webber appeared as a guest mentor for the contestants. I felt like there was something jolted me in the heart. It may sound crazy, but I want to be a stage actor again. I want to be on a live stage again…maybe just for a few shows? Ima seek out my old theater friends first thing in the morning tomorrow.
April 24, 2008 No Comments
It takes 14 years to (not) get to be a Thai citizen.
It’s funny how some of us Thais want so badly to become a US citizen. Do you know that acquiring a Thai nationality can take forever, or longer? It’s not because the rule says it needs 14 years to complete the process, but it just happens to this Vietnamese immigrant, unfortunately.
Even a Farang finds it hard to become a Thai citizen.
Tags: Thaicitizen, Thailand, Thai nationality
April 21, 2008 2 Comments
print media is going to end?
Absolutely no effing way, as long as I still have a need to read while taking a dump. Besides, I love smelling magazines and books while reading. No way an LCD screen can compete with that!
Tags: webvs print, magazine, web
April 21, 2008 1 Comment
Browsers war
In my search for a dream browser, the one that let me browse, work and blog, I thought I would give Flock a try.
My criteria is I want to a browser with Gecko as a rendering engine. I want to write my blog without going to the web interface, but from either my software or my browser addon. The browser has to be fast, light, and beautiful. I hate it when the interface gets in a way when I browse the web.
I’m writing this blog entry on Flock which seems to be OK, except!!!! there is no option to select a category? How is that possible? Is it hidden somewhere? If so, I can’t find it.
April 20, 2008 5 Comments
MP3fiesta.com
I thought buying music from iTunes was a total rip off. You have to pay almost as much as buying a CD, while you only get the songs in digital format, no touchable material whatsoever. And, Apple might get as much as 10 cents per song.
Why do I need to think about ‘buying’ if I can just download the songs for free from torrent and just plain google search, you might ask? Because, I don’t feel good doing it that way.
I found MP3fiesta.com a few days ago, and kinda shocked what they have to offer. You can download any song from their list (millions) for about 10 cents per song. Who are they?
April 18, 2008 No Comments
Asus WL-700gE
I’m writing a review for this great piece of … I don’t know exactly which I should call this thing, a wireless router, a NAS, a Web server, a print server, a Firewall, an iTune server, a bit torrent downloader!!!!11one11!?…
In fact, you can call call it whatever you want, but this thing can do all of the above.
The box looks ugly, the web interface is even uglier, but who cares? It works, and that’s all that matters.
I’ve been using it intensively for the past week as my BT downloader. There’s not many settings for this section, no throttle, no control like what you have in any BT software you find in your PC. But I think just feature alone is enough for me to buy it already.
April 13, 2008 1 Comment
