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Colin Charles: A lot of places in bangsar lack ‘free’ wifi. Less twits from me, i guess,...
Jun 26th
Colin Charles: Just passed preboarding screening. Spotted yet another interesting looking girl....
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: S2putty is the shiznitz. Now i know why i prefer irc using screen+irssi. (via Twitter...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: S2putty is the shiznitz. Now i know why i prefer irc using screen+irssi. (via Twitter...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: @cait: yeah, i’ll consider it, if i pre-plan this shopping thing. Walking out...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: @eugeneteo: was the plan. But i went grocery shopping earlier, and filled the bag up...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: 3hrs before flight and the checkin queue is overflowing, despite it being not...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: Fring just rebooted my phone. Notice instability when leaving a wifi network and...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: Insane cab driver decided he must match the gps estimated arrival time. Best way to...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: @eugeneteo: this is also one of the few OLSes that i’m missing. Supposed to...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: Damn bag weighed 28kgs. 25 checked in, carrting 3kg of tim tams as hand luggage now....
Jun 25th
Alanis Morissette – Everything
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: laptop’s been up 13+days, i wonder if ubuntu linux will offer to suspend. that...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: @froosh: 3 months, well, under 3 months. it was something i decided to try to defray...
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – 21st Century
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: Why is Dell’s blog titled Direct2Dell? (via Twitter / Colin Charles)
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow ((Hey Oh))
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: omfg. this google adsense crap is actually paying off. i just reached an amount that...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: /me wonders if a vim vs. emacs war will erupt on twitter… snickering @cos of...
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Storm In A Teacup
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tell Me Baby
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: I can’t believe that I’m mostly packed. Actually, chuck laptop into...
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Turn It Again
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Readymade
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Animal Bar
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hard to Concentrate
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – If
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – She Looks To Me
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Death Of A Martian
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Charlie
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – She's Only 18
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hey
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Desecration Smile
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Strip My Mind
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Wet Sand
Jun 25th
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dani California
Jun 25th
Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet
Jun 25th
Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: have lost a mobile phone bill from april. roaming charges! damn, i must learn to do...
Jun 25th

What a standard means (and why you...

I believe all standards should become standards, based on their technical merits. Look at HTTP as a...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: Why are early morning rush hour drivers such impatient twats? Unnecessary honking,...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: (also, yay, twitter’s jabber server is out of sync, again. i wonder by how...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: @strausser: good morning to you too. you’re up early. (via Twitter / Colin...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: up again. clearly impressed with my ability to minimise sleep cycles. feels like my...
Jun 25th
Colin Charles: that was… long. but looks like it was well received. time to sleep...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: last.fm isn’t actively scrobbling my music anymore. seems its a problem with...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: “beauty” (?) of working in a distributed environment. 2.15am, and...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @skinnylatte: darn, singapore 4-6 july it’d seem. have a good trip to india,...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @skinnylatte: when are you leaving singapore? i’ll be there 1st wk july…...
Jun 24th

MySQL APAC tour locations

Because I’m busy today, here’s what the announcement looks like (kudos to my colleagues Larry and...
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Princess Familiar (MTV...
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Uninvited (from the "City...
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Still (from the "Dogma"...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: alanis morissette is therapeutic while coding in c++. who thought i’d ever say...
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Simple Together
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Thank You
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Hands Clean
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: Secured a weighing scale. It really must be on a flat surface (not carpeted). Initial...
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Sister Blister
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – Let's Do It (Let's Fall...
Jun 24th
Alanis Morissette – That I Would Be Good
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: everybody loves 24-hr shopping (or at least late night shopping). burwood kmart...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: 24hr police stations are diminishing it’d seem. though there’s work to be...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @strausser: no, no its not. not when you want a weighing scale. gotta head to kmart...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @aizatto: why? the e61i is probably more useful, at this juncture. iPhone, ETA...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: my household has 3 girls (and me) living in it. yet, no weighing scale anywhere. (via...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: for some reason my print+fax+scan+copier’s paper feeder has started working...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: so, the nearest photocopy place to me that should open till late is the uni library....
Jun 24th
Product design by Mother Nature - June 1,...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: every podcast i have subscribed/listened to in recent times talk about...
Jun 24th

aud expected to hit 0.85c/usd

The Australian dollar was stronger at noon, eclipsing an 18-year high reached on Friday, as Japanese...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @benbarren: what is this remix thing? can anyone go, or is it invite only? (via...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: all these web services that have sms integrated, all assume you have *one* mobile...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @eugeneteo: there is no baskin robbins here either… but in aizat’s...
Jun 24th
How to make a living selling books online -...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @atariboy: its just a reminder to all of us of the horrors of travel. welcome home!...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: Its Monday, and normally I don’t dislike Mondays, but I know that this...
Jun 24th

Switching (to Ubuntu) dramas

My recent switch to Ubuntu for desktop use, hasn’t gone on without drama. SeaMonkey This doesn’t...
Jun 24th
Colin Charles: @aizatto: i’m having some double chocolate icecream now… btw, if you run,...
Jun 23rd
Colin Charles: i realize i miss homes with a balcony. balconies generally rock. (via Twitter / Colin...
Jun 23rd
Dido – Don't Think of Me
Jun 23rd
Dido – Honestly Ok
Jun 23rd
Dido – My Life
Jun 23rd
Pink hat SEO
Jun 23rd
Series 60 3rd Edition: How to sync music to...
Jun 23rd
Dido – My lover's gone
Jun 23rd
Dido – Here With Me
Jun 23rd
Developer Knowledge Base - Using Google Base...
Jun 23rd
Colin Charles: Weekend newspapers (Age+Australian) take an average of 1hr 15 minutes of my time....
Jun 23rd
Coldplay – 'Til Kingdom Come
Jun 23rd
Coldplay – We Never Change
Jun 23rd
Coldplay – Twisted Logic
Jun 23rd
Coldplay – White Shadows
Jun 23rd
Coldplay – Trouble
Jun 23rd
Coldplay – Amsterdam
Jun 23rd
Colin Charles: Just figured that the “Loud” setting in the car stereo gives thumping...
Jun 23rd
domas mituzas: vaporware, inc. » Blog Archive...
Jun 23rd
Colin Charles: Hmm, its a cold day today. And now, I’ll have to battle the Sunday trains, as...
Jun 23rd
The new new careers - (3) - Business 2.0
Jun 22nd
Watch ads, get your bills paid - May 1, 2007
Jun 22nd

Kablog mobile blogging test

I found it rather appalling that kablog was going to cost me money. And the idea of downloading via...
Jun 22nd
Colin Charles: Time to go out for dinner. And see if I can find chai latte in packs… they seem...
Jun 22nd
Coldplay – High Speed
Jun 22nd
How to scale Mt. Google - May 1, 2007
Jun 22nd
Stevey's Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food
Jun 22nd
Colin Charles: @strausser: I did. Thanks for the invite (took me long enough to signup…) (via...
Jun 22nd
Colin Charles: So I have a Dopplr account now. Who’s gonna wanna see where in the world I...
Jun 22nd
Aerosmith – Shut Up and Dance
Jun 22nd
Aerosmith – Dream On (live)
Jun 22nd
Keyboard Magazine - Linux: It's Not Just For...
Jun 22nd
Slashdot | Photo Tagging as a Privacy...
Jun 22nd
Installing Ubuntu on the decTOP (AMD PIC)
Jun 22nd
Aerosmith – Walk On Water
Jun 22nd
Market Clarity - Aussie VoIP List
Jun 22nd
Aerosmith – Heart's Done Time
Jun 22nd
WineOn64bit - The Official Wine Wiki
Jun 22nd
ONLamp.com -- Roll Your Own Series 60 Phone...
Jun 22nd
Symbian development on OS X and Linux
Jun 22nd
Aerosmith – Hole in My Soul (live)
Jun 22nd
Forum Nokia - resources for mobile...
Jun 22nd
AntonyPranata.com > Articles > Starting...
Jun 22nd
Symbian Developer Network - Symbian Press -...
Jun 22nd
CCEVS: Validated Product - Red Hat Enterprise...
Jun 22nd
Colin Charles: complete 5th season of alias dvd’s aren’t selling here yet. they seem to...
Jun 21st

Too many INBOXes

Have you noticed how we’re getting more and more INBOXes? Every damn Web service you sign-up builds...
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Rag Doll
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Love in an Elevator
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Walk This Way
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Amazing (Orchestral version)
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Young Lust
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Can't Stop Messin'
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Eat the Rich
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – What It Takes
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Cryin'
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Ain't Enough
Jun 21st
Colin Charles: Reminder-to-self: 2 hot waitresses at the Pancake Parlour in Glen Waverly. Wonder...
Jun 21st
Colin Charles: Too many kids on the streets. Even with nothing to do in glen. Must be holiday...
Jun 21st
Colin Charles: Finding food after midnight is sooooo hard. After yonks of driving, ended up at the...
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Livin' on the Edge (acoustic...
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Monkey on My Back
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Other Side
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – My Fist Your Face
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion (live)
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Janie's Got a Gun
Jun 21st
Aerosmith – Let the Music Do the Talking
Jun 21st
Colin Charles: Silly power trip again today, around 8:05 or so. Now to run to the airport…...
Jun 21st
Avril Lavigne – Anything but Ordinary
Jun 20th
Avril Lavigne – Mobile
Jun 20th
Colin Charles: I’m flying off again next week. KL, and Singapore are on my visit list....
Jun 20th
Nokia E61 Blog
Jun 20th
Screenshot0017 (via Photos from byte)
Jun 20th
Screenshot0015 (via Photos from byte)
Jun 20th
Screenshot0013 (via Photos from byte)
Jun 20th
Screenshot0012 (via Photos from byte)
Jun 20th
Screenshot0011 (via Photos from byte)
Jun 20th
Screenshot0009 (via Photos from byte)
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – It's Alright
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – You Only Tell Me You Love Me...
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – It's a Sin
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – A Red Letter Day
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Jealousy
Jun 20th

The Nokia E61i

As more of my tech-savvy friends start purchasing Nokia E61i’s, it only makes sense for me to...
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Domino Dancing
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Left to My Own Devices
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Where the Streets Have No...
Jun 20th

Multiple parties video-conferencing with...

The other day, my friends and I decided we’d like to participate in a video-conference. At this...
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – I Don't Know What You Want...
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Paninaro '95
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – Somewhere
Jun 20th
Colin Charles: There’s a nandos on clayton rd now. More fast food, in the vicinity....
Jun 20th
TestDisk - CGSecurity
Jun 20th
Luis Villa’s Blog / open source advice: 3 + 3
Jun 20th
tecosystems » The Open Source Business Meme
Jun 20th

The Open Source Conference in Kyoto

If you’re in Kyoto, Japan on the 20-21 July 2007, consider visiting the Open Source Conference 2007...
Jun 20th
Colin Charles: I never got the idea of fluffing one’s pillows. With feather though, it sure...
Jun 20th
Pet Shop Boys – I Wouldn't Normally Do This...
Jun 19th
Pet Shop Boys – What Have I Done to Deserve...
Jun 19th
Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia
Jun 19th
Pet Shop Boys – Go West
Jun 19th
With RHEL 5, Red Hat goes to bat for SELinux
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: Housemate is playing annoying music loudly from downstairs (that I can hear it up...
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: @atariboy: so you are coming back… it seemed like you might’ve just...
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: twitter jabber down now. grr. (via Twitter / Colin Charles)
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: How is it in Alias, they just appear in countries without regards for timezones? Or...
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: Nasi lemak day #2. This is an odd addiction. (via Twitter / Colin Charles)
Jun 19th
Fergie – Glamorous
Jun 19th
Fergie – Voodoo Doll
Jun 19th
Fergie – Pedestal
Jun 19th
Fergie – London Bridge
Jun 19th
Fergie – Clumsy
Jun 19th
Fergie – Fergalicious
Jun 19th
Fergie – Wake Up
Jun 19th
Fergie – Finally
Jun 19th
Fergie – Losing My Ground
Jun 19th
Fergie – Mary Jane Shoes
Jun 19th
Fergie – Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: @doubleukay: no. excess is at 10c/kb. read: http://tinyurl.com/2vo2js (via Twitter /...
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: @doubleukay: get a mobile phone, with a keyboard. and eating boiled eggs (or crabs)...
Jun 19th
Fergie – Velvet
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: PennyTel for your VoIP needs… DIDs in Malaysia and Australia, and they use SIP....
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: @s2art: i think my account there is “byte” as usual. i don’t...
Jun 19th
HITB: Review of the new Santa Rosa Macbook...
Jun 19th
Top 50 analyst bloggers « Technobabble 2.0
Jun 19th
Colin Charles: I can has Nasi Lemak. Hope its good, the craving has been around for a few weeks now...
Jun 18th

ask a SQL guru

Came across ask a SQL guru today. Service is run by the Microsoft DB MVP’s. You call them (via...
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: She was flattered that she still looks 16. She’s 23 this year. I’m not...
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: Overheard: your little brother asked me out dude. (via Twitter / Colin Charles)
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: Caulfield plaza. We have post boxes, but the post office itself we’ve decided...
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: Wanting to commit something to memory? Use the Internet Anagram server to help! (via...
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: @strausser: quick, go down a V! all the best. (via Twitter / Colin Charles)
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: Your brand means nothing. Its the content that matters. (via Twitter / Colin Charles)
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: Today is going to be an inordinately long and hectic day, that’ll end sometime...
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: Copyright assignment, is a real bummer. In fact, it might discourage employees from...
Jun 18th
Colin Charles: Twitter truncates when you least expect it, even though it says the full version is...
Jun 17th
Colin Charles: install aspell aspell-en dictionaries-common gnome-spell ispell libaspell15...
Jun 17th
Colin Charles: For spelling to work with Firefox in the chroot, install: sudo apt-get install aspell...
Jun 17th

Vertical job advertising

Vertical advertising. I just stumbled upon The Problogger Job Board. They advertise it as such: post...
Jun 17th
Giving Up on Making Money
Jun 17th
Paul Kedrosky: Alan Greenspan on Drive-by...
Jun 17th
It Must Be Time for Tea: What I learned from...
Jun 17th
Colin Charles: I find it amusing that Twitter is a better news resource re: melbourne cbd shooting,...
Jun 17th
Colin Charles: M.youtube.com is cool. Real player defaults not to the wifi connection, so fix it....
Jun 16th
Freakonomics Blog » More Sex Please, We're...
Jun 15th
The 3 Stooges: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch (via...
Jun 15th
need to change video settings for it to work with the...
Jun 15th
Coldplay – Warning Sign
Jun 15th
Coldplay – Daylight
Jun 15th
Coldplay – Clocks
Jun 15th
Coldplay – The Scientist
Jun 15th
Coldplay – God Put a Smile Upon Your Face
Jun 15th
Coldplay – In My Place
Jun 15th
Coldplay – Politik
Jun 15th
Colin Charles: @skinnylatte: well, i’m sure singapore has a bunch of great Singlish mags :-)...
Jun 15th
Coldplay – Swallowed in the Sea
Jun 14th
Coldplay – The Hardest Part
Jun 14th
Coldplay – Low
Jun 14th
Coldplay – A Message
Jun 14th
Coldplay – Speed of Sound
Jun 14th
Coldplay – X&Y
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: Thinking… the idea behind “hot or not” was really always staring...
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: @engineheart: if you’re already on your roof, thats pretty high… consider...
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: Engineheart thinks twitter is about vanity. I don’t. Discuss (via Twitter /...
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: Found it. 105 chapel. Seen ben barren’s blackberry (via Twitter / Colin...
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: Cathy and i can’t find hoohaa. And boy is it foggy today (via Twitter / Colin...
Jun 14th
Twitter delays - however it has appeared in my reply feed:...
Jun 14th
twitter delays II: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch (via...
Jun 14th
Twitter delays: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch (via...
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: Twitter is going thru some serious slowdows in replies/recent/etc. I have a feeling...
Jun 14th
Coldplay – Talk
Jun 14th
Coldplay – Fix You
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: @CathyE: Confirmed I am, does HooHaa serve food? (via Twitter / Colin Charles)
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: What is the purpose of Tumblr, in a day and age when Mugshot or man, Facebook, is a...
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Imaginary
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Tourniquet
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Bring Me to Life
Jun 14th
Evanescence – My Immortal
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Breathe No More
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Farther Away
Jun 14th
Evanescence – My Last Breath
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Thoughtless
Jun 14th

Some older news summaries

With currency, you’ve got to be really up to the minute. Posting daily, sometimes several...
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Everybody's Fool
Jun 14th
Colin Charles: Notice that in the Alias, season 2, a lot of their computers run Linux/Unix. Even saw...
Jun 14th
Evanescence – Taking Over Me
Jun 14th

MySQL and Security: what do you consider...

I don’t claim to be a security expert, but I’d like opinions from people in the field, as well as...
Jun 13th

MySQL and Security: what do you consider...

I don’t claim to be a security expert, but I’d like opinions from people in the field, as well as...
Jun 13th
Steve Vai – All About Eve
Jun 13th
Technopreneur Development Division Portal
Jun 13th