Another lesson in Connections

I was looking for info on the band, MorningWood, which also turned up the disambiguation page for it which brought me to this interesting page about Morning Glories.

wahahaha..

My post on my maiden voyage to Zouk coming soon.

I had a dream ... and Adsense

I dreamt my house was haunted. More specifically, my room was haunted. I can't really remember much of it now. Just that the fear that I experienced in that dream was thoroughly incapacitating.

One of the things was that I was watching TV in the hall when suddenly the area around the door to my room suddenly became very dark(and you could see the darkness moving) and my 6ft step ladder scraped itself from my room to another room in the house.

I woke up stiff and even though it was day already(I sleep late) I didn't have the strength to turn myself over(I was sleeping face down). It was thoroughly terrifying.


Anyways, I recently introduced Adsense into this blog hoping to get some money but so far I have made zilch. LOL.

I also introduced Adsense to mirror.CuteWorm which is a mirror site that I am hosting for Wei Li's dota stuff. Averaging 200-400 unique hits and bandwidth usage between 400mb and 700mb per weekday and 1.4Gb and above on weekends, I have also so far only earned, 50 US cents. And I believe 25 cents may have been from me testing the links. Each hit usually generates between 15 cents to 30 cents depending on factors that I have no idea about.

This just goes to show that advertising is a complex business. I was hoping to make some money from the adverts to pay the difference between Starhub's 12mbps plan and Singnet's 10mbps plan to appease my mother who for some odd reason was very adamant about staying with Starhub(even though she fully noted the benefits of Singnet).

Oh well.

Day out

Went out with the guys 2 Saturdays ago to go check out Sitex. Instead of going to Expo we ended up at Suntec so we decided to go jalan jalan and I ended up buying my 1GB MiniSD(apparently 2GB will lag the phone) at just $20. The 2GB one was just $48 at certain stores(incl some reliable ones) while other stores were selling it at $73.

Mr Li excited to see the food
(Later found out the kangkong sucked)

On the way to a LAN shop, we saw this.

That's pretty much how the day went. Nothing much happened.

Sitex (SupposedTo)->Suntec->Jalan Jalan->Arcade->Makan->LAN Shop (Closed)->Go Home

Family Dinner

So my dad treated us to dinner yesterday at an old haunt casually known as Upper Thompson. Very funny that The Straits Times should run an article on it. Anywayz, they missed out the best shop there! The Everybody-Has-Rice-And-Shares-The-Dishes stall.


The stall used to have great Sambal Kangkong but their standard for that dish has since dropped. They also changed their Chilli Crab recipe a few years back and although it's slightly different, it still tastes really good.

SHIOK! Crab Roe	SHIOK! Fried Chicken
2 of the many dishes	Only ten hold the secret. The others misplaced theirs.

My stomach's been a tad weak lately. So I only ate one pincer from the crab. Near the end of the meal I had to go make some extra space but even after I cleared room, I was still full and so were the rest, so we tapao-ed the rest of the crab and Sweet and Sour pork ribs.

This sucker's body is the length of 3 Nokia 6280s

More yummy food.

The amount of Crab roe was quite a fair bit this time round as you can see from the picture below. There were two of these sacs plus whole pieces still floating around in the sauce.

Lotsa Crab Roe!

I used to release these buggers by the dozen when fishing because I found them smelly. But NO MORE! lol.

Afterwards, we went to checkout the new IKEA. The inroad was very long and was jam packed with no outroad nearby. We didn't go in though cuz my dad hates crowds so I'll be checking it out with the guys this Saturday after we go to the Cosplay thingy at Expo(They want to check the costumes out, I want to laugh at the wearers :P).

All I can say is that the place is extremely huge and I've only seen something like this in other countries. i.e. Malaysia.

That's just a small part of the building.

There's another building nearby that belongs to Courts and is big but not as huge as Ikea's.

Courts Megastore

There's yet another building (and this one is huge) that belongs to Giant. It's still being constructed though.

Sad to say that all my secret fishing spots seem to have developments going on nearby. I guess I was never destined to enjoy exclusivity.

Shawn the Fixer

Saved myself $30 the other day by fixing my own earphones.

Looks good as new	Speaker
Test PDA	Faulty wires and connections

I art smart.

Hilarie Burton

FK's upload function is finally back up. Turns out the problem was server side. It's a great relief because otherwise the problem would probably still be there because I was completely stumped at the cause.

Anyway, I've been watching One Tree Hill (oth) lately because Celest's been slowly poisoning me with tidbits over time. The show's basically a teen drama with hot chicks and so-so guys(I'm better.. I think) but has a really simple story structure with a complex story line which is basically what I adore in shows. Think Lost and Taken. But when you cross complexity with emotional depth(which this show has to a certain degree) and hot actors/actresses, people like me get headaches.

People like me think too much and easily get sucked into the show and the line between reality and fiction begins to blur.

The actors on the show are unbelievably hot yet sweet/fun(sweet=girls, fun=guys) and caring. Let's just take a look at one of them

Hilarie Burton is a cross between Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johansson(voice), Madchen Amick (Hair and Semi-emotional and "innocent" demeanor), Angel(Face and Smile) and the surreal(everything else).

I watched some of her videos on youtube and it would seem that she is a really sweet person. How can anyone hate her?

Let me put it this way. Someone like her would be my dream girl. The more I watch her on tv, the more I find myself liking her. But that's exactly the problem. If I were to meet this girl in real life, I think we wouldn't really be that much into each other - well, at least I wouldn't be in to her as much as I'd think(she probably wouldn't be in to me at all). Ours lifestlyes are so different and I'm not just talking about the careers here.

American shows influence us to American ideals and American fantasies which seriously screws up our society because in real life, finding a way to combine these two cultures completely is near impossible. Screw the fact that we're a westernised society. A westernised society doesn't mean a western society.

Just think of this. Supposing we ignore 3/4 of our local Television programs which is really crap and focus on the 1/4 which is "good". To see how much American television has influenced us, watch one of our good local dramas and then compare it with an American program and you'll feel like there's something lacking in the local program. You feel it? Perhaps you can't quite put your finger on it yet. Let me clue you in on the answer. Whites.

I ain't kidding here. Think about it. If you were to see a good local actor/actress on an American television program, wouldn't it feel weird? That, ladies and gentleman, is the influence that we all are under.

"Perhaps it's the accents", you say. Well I say exactly because accents are part of a culture. The attitudes and the way they handle things are part of the culture. The clothing styles are part of the culture. The way they socialise is part of the culture. Now you're getting it. We're different!

So how then is experiencing two lifestyles (American, vicariously thru TV. Local, through real life) affecting us? I don't really know yet. Let me just leave it at this. Regardless of what I've said above, if I had the chance to meet her(Hilarie Burton), I still would if only just to find out what their lives are like.

And just for your info, in case you're pathetic and living in a fantasy world(not me because I'm still able to tell the difference), she's already taken. Haha.

Did you know?

Did you know that we are radioactive?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/carbon-142.htm

The link shows how we breathe in ionised carbon atoms from the atmosphere. This makes me wonder if the hole in the Ozone layer has been causing all these deformities in the human population.

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So FK's been getting a little rough lately. Been working on the new template only to find out that a release of the new template without upgrading the backend is near to impossible. Because of this, some of the features have been unavailable for a day or so and maybe even more. I'm still trying to confirm this before I let the big bosses know because it was all going so well.

At least, the new FK is going to look super cool and is going to be extremely easy to use.

Peace out. Time to get back to work.

zod

So I came across this link while browsing my favourite comic website. The author was talking about how some dude got smashed into a pole when Walmart held a race for which the top ten winners would be able to get a PSP 3.

Some pretty fucked up stuff.

Neways, been watching the second season of Prison Break and I have to say it is quite interesting. Not so much how innocent civilians are being victimised, but more on the details the show incorporates. I love shows with details, Lost being another fav of mine.

Fusionstream, out.

Playlist updated...

I have updated the music player's playlist. This time round, it's all blues and blues rock and the file size is damn high to preserve as much quality as possible. As such, you may experience extremely slow loading times. You "may".

Here's some comics from my most favouritest comic strip ever, ctrlaltdel.

New Stuff

I have added new blogs to my account.

They are
http://fusionstream.blogspot.com
http://fusionforest.blogspot.com

They are a replacement for my Flickr accounts because I found out that Flickr will delete your old photos automatically.

Will be redoing the music player shortly too. Btw, you need to enable cookies in order to save the Play onLoad/DoNotPlay onLoad.

Interesting Stuff

• Black and White or Colour?
• Alien Life With NO DNA
  
• How to hack a Coke Machine 1
• How to hack a Coke Machine 2

A Lesson in Connections

The links within the wikipedia entries and under the Related Links section in the entries are THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL I SAY. You just can't stop clicking....

So.. on with the lesson.... and proof of this sinister occurence..

I read daily RSS feeds via RSSBandit.

I subscribe to Snopes' RSS Feed which is a rumour busting site. It's sorta like Mythbusters but just not as entertaining in the same way.

One of today's topics' was about the MYTH that watering your plants with microwaved water will kill it.

This reminded me about the Triple Point of water and Superheating and Supercooling from an episode of Mythbusters which showed you can heat pure water higher than 100 degress Celsius without boiling it.

That led to Supersaturation and Phases of Matter.

Supersaturation led to a dead end of sorts.

Phases of Matter however contained a link to Mentos Eruption. Within that page, there was a link to Mythbusters again but there was also another link to Rock Candy.

Within the Rock Candy page, there were links to United Kingdom and Rock Confectionary which is useful if you want to know the difference between, Britain, England and the United Kingdom. Fortunately, I had already read up on this and so did not need to waste more of my life reading addictively pointless stuff. And the Rock Confectionary page was a dud.

Still within the Rock Candy page, I managed to find a small inconspicuous link to Candy Cane.

Candy Cane led me to it's roots, Christmas.

Talking about the origins of Christmas and how it was nearly lost as a tradition, I found a small link to Dissenter. But this was another dead end. :D

Further down the Christmas page, there's more info on Christmas Celebrations. There's a small link to something called the Christmas Truce, which was basically a time when an informal, unofficial and unsanctioned truce occured during World War 1 because the troops at the front lines wanted to celebrate Christmas. I was of course already aware of this because I had read about it before but I was still eager to learn more.

I read on with great interest and was moved by the brotherly love shown by these soldiers. And then I got pissed with the commanders in charge. I mean... if the people of two countries don't want to fight each other, what fucked up reasons do the commanders have for wanting war in the first place?

Other links within the page also indicate that at times there were other informal "truces" where both sides purposely misfired their guns at set times for set durations at set distances to prevent any casualties. There was even a story about how an English soldier accidentally shot a round over to the enemy, - yes. that's right. there was no fighting -, and then yelled out "Sorry!".

The fuck is up with that?

Anyway, by this time, 3 hours had passed and I was left wondering how the fuck I even got to this point. Luckily, I managed to trace my steps with the help of the browser's "History" and managed to post it here just for you.

So my point is proven. Wikipedia is THE DEVIL!

Microsoft bides to take over the world.. again..

The low down is that Novell had some patent dirt on Microsoft which forced Microsoft over to the table. At least that's what I get from the blog of the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems.

Read the joint letter from Microsoft-Novell here and puke(laughing is not an option) at the absurd reality that it seems to portray. Idiots.

I'm no genius but... Isn't there a conflict with the GPL here? GPL and Microsoft. It's a contradiction in terms. Read more about that here.

We all know how Microsoft works. They enter deals or buy out a partner, and then kill them off slowly. Novells guarantees itself a few safe years but also guarantees it's own death immediately thereafter as noted by this blog.

Other Links
Novell Sells Out
The unholy alliance

And here are some reasons why Novell are morons..
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=81
http://talkback.zdnet.com/52.....68&start=-1