I woke up yesterday with a killer headache and was barely able to walk.
My whole body felt weak and I found it hard to stand so I was on the couch the whole day.
I felt like vomiting and almost fainted.
Today I woke up (at 8.30am) with an even worse headache and couldn't get out of bed. I was also sneezing and coughing and found it hard to move. I also had a high fever. By this time, I started thinking that I have SWINE FLU.
So my dad set up a doctor's appointment at 10.15am. It takes me about 10 minutes to get out of bed and after I manage to brush my teeth and have a Panadol, I find myself too weak to stand and ended up in bed again. And as the doctor's appointment time neared, I managed to drag myself to the car and get to the doctor's where I wait in the sitting room almost sleeping.
I tell the doctor my symptoms and he gets a stethoscope out and starts poking around my shoulders and chest with it. He also gives me a pen-looking thing and tells me to put it under my armpit so he can get the temperature. I felt disgusted putting a thing that has been under other people's armpits under mine.
Anyway, the doctor thinks for a few seconds and tells me its a throat infection which leaves me thoroughly unconvinced as I could not imagine how a throat infection could cause my legs to feel weak.
Well, anyway, the doctor gives me a medical certificate which tells me I can take today and tomorrow off and this is why you won't see me at school until Wednesday.
SICK!!
on Monday, June 29, 2009Michael Jackson
on Sunday, June 28, 2009Michael Jackson has been dead for sometime now.
So what legacy has he left behind?
Well, he was:
- an awesome dancer
- high pitched singer
- black man turned white thanks to the magic of plastic
- possible child molester
- crowned the King of Pop
That's quite a legacy. Well I know, he was an extraordinary musician and entertainer. His personality, I'm not sure of.
What do you think?
Leave your comments.
Coffee Break?
on Thursday, June 25, 2009The New Benz E-Class.
Sure to have nifty features.
Here's one I didn't expect.
Attention Assist.
The car monitors 70 things and decides whether a driver is feeling drowsy and if the car thinks the driver is. The HUD displays a coffee cup and recommends you take a rest.
The designers at Mercedes must really have thought this out so that it does not annoy a bad driver.
If you want to read up, go here.
Sorry for the big gap between posts.
I've been suffering from blogger's block and had no idea on what to write.
SO now I finally have something, enjoy.
Glary Utilities
on Sunday, June 21, 2009Ever wanted to speed up your computer?
Glary Utilities is the perfect tool.
Its freeware and its very powerful and leaves a small footprint on your computer.
It can:
- Do a quick disk cleanup and remove junk data.
- Clean your registry to help improve system performance.
- Fix errors in shortcuts in your start menu and desktop.
- Uninstall programs completely which helps destroy junk files left behind by conventional uninstall methods
- Manage your startup programs so that your login is faster.
- Optimise your memory so that you always have an X% of RAM free which helps speed up your processes.
- Manage context menu entries so that when you right-click an item, you see what you need to see.
- Defragment your registry to speed up your computer.
- Erase tracks left behind by your online browsing to increase privacy.
- Shred files so that files are completely deleted and cannot be recovered.
- Undelete files so that accidentally deleted files can be recovered (will not work if File Shredder was used to delete)
- Encrypt/Decrypt files with a password so that no-one can access the files without the password.
- Do a Disk Analysis and show what your drives mainly comprise of. E.G: mp3 files or dll files.
- Find duplicate files and save space by deleting them.
- Finds empty folders which slow down indexing speeds.
- Split and join large files which can be used for online sharing etc.
- Manage running processes so you can stop any process you wish.
- Assist managing Internet Explorer add-ons and restore hijacked settings.
- Provide direct access to Windows tools that are normally hard to find.
Here's a screenshot of the program:
There is also a PRO version which costs money. It comes with:
- Automatic care in background
- Enhanced system fixing,optimising and more
- Free 24x7 Technical Support
- License for Commercial use.
Not much use for the average home user. It is an excellent tool to maintain your computer and I recommend it to everybody.
Download it here.
Google Analytics
on Thursday, June 18, 2009Okay, I've got in-depth info about this blog on Google Analytics.
It promises to have info for:
- Visits
- Pageviews
- Pages/Visit
- Avg. Time on Site
- Bounce Rate
- % of new visits
and much more info.
It will have it updated on a daily basis and I will know soon enough whether my blog is being viewed on a daily basis. Big Brother rules.
Screenshots will be uploaded soon.
How Bad Internet Explorer is.
on Monday, June 15, 2009Some people have asked me how bad IE is on the Acid3 test I talked about a few posts back (in relation to Firefox and Opera - Click Here for related post)
Well I've got more screen shots to show you.
First, I'll show you IE7, which is probably what most people in the world are using at the moment.
I don't know about you, but that to me looks a lot different from what it should be looking like:
The new version of IE, IE 8.0 however does better, but still not well enough.
Internet Explorer fails.
This blog is now in its beta stage.
Primary address: http://workingsoflix.blogspot.com
Easy link: http://www.lixworks.tk
It is also automatically imported into Facebook for easy commenting.
Thoughts please.
Finally, this blog is google-able.
After much hassle and nosing about, I have managed to include this site in Google's web index.
I have Google Analytics and Webmaster tools set up for it.
I know all about how you get on my page.
Big Brother is watching.
English Movie Study
on Sunday, June 14, 2009My English teacher is great (Ms. Scrimshaw).
She lets us talk the whole lesson and says "I know that some of you don't need to study so I'm not worried about you". Good on her, I say.
Bad thing about her: She picks the worst movie in the whole world as our film study.
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?", what a wonderful movie. Only good thing about it is the fact that their accents are hilarious. Other than that, its horrible.
And I just got the DVD out from United Video, so I could watch it with subtitles.. since their accents are impossible to understand.
God, I love English.
The All Blacks lost last night. Shame.
They deserve it. They are too up themselves to take anything seriously and it serves them right. Not to say that the All Blacks are a bad team but they always make the same mistake of underestimating other teams. Its time they harden up and play seriously.
Scoreline: 27-22 France Win
Facebook Usernames
on Thursday, June 11, 2009At 4pm this Saturday NZST, Facebook will allow custom user names for your profile.
E.g. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789
will now become
www.facebook.com/yourcustomwords
It's on a first come, first serve basis. So there is going to be a big rush to get the popular user names. So if you have a common name like John, you better hurry.
Here's the link to select your custom user name: http://www.facebook.com/username/
World's Fastest Internet
on Wednesday, June 10, 2009A 75 year old Swedish lady has the world's fastest internet. "How fast?" you may ask.
And I would answer "40 gigabits per second".
That's 5GB/s. That connection is fast enough to download a Full HD DVD in, wait for it, 2 seconds. Its also fast enough to stream 1500 HD channels simultaneously.
NZ however, is stuck with a theoretical max limit of 24 megabits per second, which is 3 Megabytes per second.. (MB/s). Only fast enough to download one song in one second.
One song = 3MB
Full HD movie = ~10GB
Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.
"This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.
"As a network owner we're trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances," he told
Public internet fails.
For more information, read: http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/
Table Tennis
on Tuesday, June 9, 2009I have developed a new love for a sport called table tennis.
Its such a nice sport and can be played anywhere, even on your dining table (as I do).
It also costs pretty much nothing ($2) to get started on it. I play it almost every second day now and I'm loving it.
It has no fitness involved. All you need to be able to do is move one step at a decent speed and have an average reaction rate. AND you can feel sporty if you play it.
I urge you to give it a try. I did, and now I love it.
Opera 10 Beta and Firefox 3.5 Beta 4
on Monday, June 8, 2009Firefox 3.5 claims to be 2x faster than 3.0 and 10x faster than 2.0. Those are huge claims considering 3.0 and 2.0 are already zipping along at a lightning pace.
Meanwhile, Opera 10 Beta using Webkit's Sun Spider tests, works out to be 16.2% faster than the current 9.62 stable release. Opera 10 Beta also includes a "Opera Turbo" feature which automatically detects slow networks and optimises your browsing speed by around 3x - 4x. This is done by Opera's own proprietary technology. This comes at a cost of low-res images at times though.
I decided to do some Acid3 standard tests* on both browsers and these were my results.
These are the results that I got from the Firefox 3.5 Beta. This is a good result but not perfect and does not comply to all the Acid3 standards.
In my opinion, its worth waiting for the stable release before judging/labelling each of these browsers and the Safari and Chrome releases are worth waiting for as well. However, the Firefox 3.5 version looks promising and as support for its add-ons grow, so does the popularity.
Opera are still trying to get their widgets to function effectively though as they are not allowed full control of the browser, which somewhat limits their capabilities.
I, for one, know I will be waiting anxiously for the next stable release of all the browsers mentioned above before making my mind on which to use as my default.
*Note: For a full list of what the Acid3 standards are, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3#Standards_tested
All Blacks Monopoly
on Sunday, June 7, 2009A limited edition Monopoly board has been released. 4000 Monopoly boards filled with All Blacks as opposed to property has been promoted with all proceeds going to charity.
The top "property" is All Blacks captain Richie McCaw. Apparently, instead of buying, selling and mortgaging Mayfair, you buy, sell and mortgage Richie McCaw himself.
I personally think that this board game represents the slave market. Buying and selling people is going a bit too far. Hasbro needs to make a new board game and stop trying to make money on the same game with new 'properties'.
Leave your comments and tell me what you think.
I have a nice program on my phone (Nokia 5700 XpressMusic) called Wellness Diary. It lets me enter all my health info into it on a daily basis (e.g: weight, sleep duration, stress, exercise time etc.) So, I decided to enter my sleep data for the night's sleep this morning. I take out my phone and notice that the screen is blank (even though it was on and on full battery the previous night). So I decide to turn it on. But to my horror, the screen keeps flashing on and off in an endless cycle. I thought, hey, maybe it's a glitch. So I took out the battery and put it back in. And the same thing happens again. So now I get really worried and start shaking my phone and tapping it against my finger, hoping that some possible wiring connection will be made and my phone will be all right. I decide to charge the phone, to try to give it some constant power. And to my surprise, the screen stops flashing and my phone starts working normally. It turns out my battery was low. Well, my phone is charging now and hopefully this random glitch won't happen again.
As you can see, the phone is charging at the moment.
And here's the Wellness Diary displaying my sleep duration for the past month.
Late Night.
on Saturday, June 6, 2009Last night, or should I say early morning at 3:30AM, my mum took off to Bangkok.
I return home to watch a tennis match (Fed WON), and I go to bed at 7am.
Woke up at 2pm.
I had to watch the match on a live online stream.
It made me think. - Since sports are usually broadcasted LIVE. Most people will watch it live. But what about the rest of us who don't have access to the live event or just couldn't watch it?
The only to way to watch it again is to hope for a replay on that TV channel or hope for a DVD.
Not many live events have a DVD made out of it. E.g. A semi-final of a world tournament will not have a DVD made out of it.
This means that once the live event has been broadcast. That's pretty much it. Maybe one or two replays or highlights but then nothing.
Why don't the event organisers release the video for free online? It is not broadcasted anymore anyway, so why bother keeping them? If the videos are released, it will broaden the impact of sport on the world and maybe some more people might take up a sport.
Just a thought.
So now I have the alpha version of my blog out. Tell me what you think.
This blog is under construction at the moment. Come back in a few days to view it at its alpha stage.
Thank you.
