Getting busier

Firstly, a warm welcome from me to all the visitors from SearchSG! [:D]


I’ve moved most of my sites over to my webserver I lovingly named Chii. Hah! How contradicting. Chii from the anime Chobits is a powerful persocon whereas this Chii of mine is a Pentium2, 233MHz. Even PDAs nowadays are more powerful. The first thing you might notice is there’s no more http://elusive.wyred.nu/weblog/index.asp anymore. Just a nice http://elusive.wyred.nu in the address bar.


Recently added the link to my blog at http://searchsg.org/ . I got a rating of 1 [:(]. Perhaps I need a better layout? Or the content I provide too dull, boring and possibly lame. Anyways, this is my blog so I ain’t worrying much about ratings. I just needed some web space to rant and design and I’m inviting people from all over to come comment/complain. Haha


I browsed some other blogs at searchsg. Came across a few bloggers who stopped blogging because they didn’t want strangers to read about their life anymore. It’s as if what they do everyday is automagically blogged (No offense). As for me, I don’t type out every single detail of my everyday life. I type what I see fit. [:)]


Before I end here, I feel I should provide my definition of the words “elusive” and “emotions”. Taken straight from dictionary.com, expressed in PHP style.
<?php

$elusive = ‘Difficult to define or describe.’;
$emotions = ‘A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling.’;
echo $elusive,$emotions;
?>

I’m gonna make some minor changes to my layout! Hopefully done by tonight. [XD]



The changes didn’t take too much time! Well, I’ve created an iframe on top of my background. There’s gonna be a little more extra work each time I change my background. I’m going to convert this main page from ASP to PHP some day. Definitely not today. lol

it has begun

I’ve started making use of my Pentium2 machine to offload some work from my main computer so I can play games smoother! I just started moving my mail server over and went through the configurations more thoroughly. Will be moving my websites over once I have some free time cos now, both of them are using different web servers so I will need more time to configure each website I have.


Chii
Windows Server 2003: Web Edition
Pentium 2 MMX 233MHz
384MB PC100 SDRam
4MB AGP
6.4GB Harddisk
2x3GB Harddisks soft-raid Stripe


I’m just doing this for the fun and experience. So don’t come telling me I should be getting a faster, leaner machine for web hosting. [:)] I’m just a home user. And it’s not that laggy running Win2K3 on a Pentium 2. It’s good enough for me to browse websites as I play games on my other machine.


Here’s an photo of a corner of my room. I’m too shy to post the one taken with the flash on. Haha. That’s why the monitors appear so bright. The light you see near the top is my very old desklamp. I need to get it replaced soon because it’s releasing “magnetic waves” or something which is affecting my monitors and any electrical stuff near it.


Wheeeeee

During my 1 week absence from the office, the mug I bought got delivered. This morning, the shirt got delivered too. I bought a black mug with the words “WTF?” printed largely in white on it. And a black shirt with the white text “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1” in front. Paid around SGD$66 for them, shipping included. First time I bought something off the net with my debit card and the website was http://www.thinkgeek.com/ . Other virtual stuff that I bought before was a domain name and movie tickets.


Now that I’m back to my usual lifestyle, my trip to Paris felt like a dream.

Sigh…

Finally recovered from a scary harddisk problem. Woke up last Friday morning to a whirring and clicking sound from my main harddisk. Never had I woke up with so much fright. It worked well after a restart. But then started to fail again and the clicking came back. Then I had to shut down everything and leave for work already.


After work, I went down to SimLim Square and got myself a new 80GB harddisk and a better Power Supply Unit (PSU). I hoped the new PSU would fix the problem I have with my AthlonXP. Sadly, it did not. I had made a copy of all the important data on my dying 40GB into my new 80GB. I’m still using the 40GB harddisk. It seems to work fine now.


I bought a new router too. A Netgear DG824M. The best feature I liked was the firewall rules and site blocking. I can now block ads from appearing in websites simply by adding the name of the server hosting the advertisement into the keywords list. All worm and virus attacks are blocked at the router, which now eliminates the need for me to have a software firewall running and eating up all my valuable CPU cycles. [XD]

Just a quote

<deophite> HOLLAND, Michigan (AP) — Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy’s name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.
<deophite> Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.
<Yale> nice ;x
<Craisin> haha
<Craisin> when he learns to walk, 2.1


From bash.org