wyred to the world
Just received an email notification from Golden Village. The advance booking for Star Wars Episode III will begin on the 1st of May 2005!
*runs off to set reminder on handphone*
Which reminds me, a little prank I used to do on my friends was to borrow their handphones and secretly set reminders for them. A reminder configured at 3am telling them to wake up and pee.
All right! Because there’s going to be a new colleague in the office, my boss ordered 2 computers. A laptop and a desktop. Desktop comes with a 17 inch LCD which I am allowed to switch with my current 15 inch LCD. Finally more viewing space for coding at work!
The new computer will be placed upstairs in the conference room for training purposes. But I’m thinking of making it run the maximizer database server instead of having the older, slower PC do the job. This may involve a lot of extra work transferring MS SQL databases for I don’t have much experience yet.
By the way, I just discovered the slider in display control panel is already at max(1024×768). I’m very afraid I may not be able to get it up to 1280*1024. [X(]
Perhaps I’m weak at dealing with problems and stress of my real life. Thus, I
greatly enjoy sci-fi and fantasy films. Well made ones of course! Movies like
Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek. Unlike Aliens VS Predator, which I firmly believe is
one of the worst made films of the year.
And so, things I’m looking forward to for now.
Star Wars Episode III! I have watched
the trailer and it
leaves me impatient for the movie. Golden
Village has a newsletter
thing to inform it’s subscribers when advance ticket sales for this movie
begin in Singapore. Love the Darth Vader theme music!
劇場版 Air. I suppose the film was already
shown in Japan so I hope the fansub groups would release it soon. Just a few
days ago I finished watching the whole TV series. Had a “bittersweet” ending.
I’m serving Triad’s copies of the TV series in IRC. But you would be able to get it faster if you have a bittorrent client
installed. Those with routers might need to configure port forwarding.
Howl’s Moving Castle. This anime
film was recently shown in Singapore but I chose not to watch it in the local
cinemas for fear of watching it with children. Children who make lots of noises
and keep talking during the show. I understand that some people can’t resist and
want to discuss about a particular scene during the show. I would love to
discuss it only after it ends because while watching, I get absorbed and would
prefer to be left undisturbed while the film distorts my reality. Also waiting
for fansub groups.
Other than films I’m also looking forward to advancing the storyline in Final
Fantasy XI. I’m at the phase where this “game” no longer feels like any other
casual game. Because it’s players are all able to interact and communicate with
one another and there are players from many parts of the world, it feels like
having a second virtual life in a fantasy world where one does not have to
bother with filing his income taxes or worry about putting food on the table.
It’s a world where I weild a scythe and go around killing, adventuring and
meeting other people.
Oh yea, and I have yet to buy a new computer. Hope I could save enough by the
end of this month or the next. More problems are surfacing on my server machine
that’s running this blog. Seems like the harddisk begins to exhibit problems
when left running for more than 4-5 days and needs a bit of rebooting.
Ugly. Very ugly. Fugly.
There’s a new client for my company and I need to edit their existing website a little which is in ASP. Code organization looks good enough. Easy to understand and edit. At least all I need to do is to make changes to a page or two to have that change applied to all other pages.
Every content is stored into the database and then pulled out with keywords from querystrings. No filters are applied to the querystrings before using them to query the database. Means anyone who knows SQL injection well enough could unleash havoc onto this site. I could fix that but I have forgotten a lot on ASP.
And I repeat, I don’t like ASP anymore.
I thought my cough would get better over the weekend. Instead it worsened. So I seized the opportunity to go MC for 2 days. Whole body felt weak after taking the medicine. But enough strength and concentration for me to sit on my chair and log on to FFXI for the rest of the two days. Now I’m back to work.
Still, I feel a bit of irritation down my throat. At least my condition is getting better.
I wonder if it’s because of the medicine, I get that lifeless feeling again. I could just sit on my chair, stare at a blank wall and not do a thing.
By the way, the first thing that greeted me in office was a horde of ants that invaded my coffeecup I left unwashed since last Friday. Killed them all with hot water, my favourite way of exterminating pests.