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Last week I went to Taiwan for a friend's wedding. Taiwan was interesting, and notably Taxis there are completely crazy. I thought taxis in Singapore and Malaysia were pretty bad but they don't really compare. Traffic lights are optional, when they're not just blinking amber and when walking on the sidewalk you have to be careful that a scooter doesn't run you over.

Notably though, Taiwan has less engrish than Japan. ^^

I've started to go through my photos, but i've started off with the food pictures which are here. Food in Taiwan is really cheap! More to come later.

How could you go wrong with 7 beef patties...
Aah Japan...

Check if your PC's clock is set an hour later due to the lack of daylight savings in the state.

omgomgomg conclusion lol 

Gaaah why are episodes 2, 3, 4 and 5 the same?? -_- 

This clip's a bit old bit if you've been to a scientific / technical powerpoint presentation you should find this funny, especially the questions at the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
And the paper for it: http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

I bought one of these today: Karcher K236, it's great for cleaning things and washing your car. It's also awesome because when you pull the trigger there's recoil on the trigger gun! mwahahaha the power!!

Tech note for anyone having problems with VMware Server 2 after upgrading to CentOS 5.3.

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Testing my speakers (same plan as on Zaph Audio plan 17) at the moment. They sound pretty good so far!



(These were a lot of work.... Jarrah is super hard to work with.. i mean that literally too)

template <class T, void(T::*member)()> void* ThreadHelper(void* p) {
    (static_cast<T*>(p)->*member)();
    return 0;
}

*sigh

Watch carefully!

Just finished watching seirei no moribito. This anime was awesome and was one of the best that i've watched for a very long time!

If you haven't watched it, it's definitely worth a look. Makes me wish i could read the subsequent novels in the series, but that would be rather difficult with my lack of Japanese :)

Started work at Raytheon last week and it's so different to my previous work at ISS Group. Raytheon has a crazy amount of process in software development, whereas at ISS they had a lot of trust in us to just do the right thing and get code inspected and reviewed only if we thought it was necessary. I suppose a lot of that was due to the team that I was in at my old work: my colleagues were all excellent and knew what was worth shortcutting and what wasn't...

I miss having a proper IDE though..... sorry unix people but vim is crap. I want to be able to do things like go to definition, find references, auto-fill in interfaces, run unit tests and invoke extract method. Those things really boost productivity and i'm finding that dropping to the console and typing in 'grep -Iinr ClassName *' quite annoying.

http://learn2merge.net/

If anything have a read for the stereotypes :)

Yay i'm done with university (finally).. ^_^

This journal update is also posted from my Wii. Looks like you can plug in a USB keyboard and use it from the Wii's web browser ^^ There's still some dumb things, like pressing enter on the keyboard doesn't click the OK button on the screen, there's no such thing as text selection and highlighting, and Nintendo's assumed that all people running the European OS have a UK keyboard (whereas Australia uses US keyboards). @ and " are swapped and £ isn't # thank you very much.

I should really get back to studying. Formal methods boo..

Received Anjunabetas Volume 5 in the mail today and it's a two disc album mixed by Above and Beyond. It's a really good set of CDs, especially Chuck & Twist - Battery Life, which has the following vocal sampled in it:

Your laptop overheats, and that causes reduced performance and lower battery life.

Quite random.. ^^;;

If you have draconian IT people at your workplace which insist on scanning outgoing zip files and want to make them suffer, email someone this file:

http://www.unforgettable.dk/
The file contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped, which again contains 16 zipped files, which contain 1 file, with the size of 4.3GB.

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Summary: If the (almost) default samba install on your fedora core 7 is broken, you probably forgot to start the nmd system service. For some reason, smb and nmd are now two services and you need to start both to have working samba.

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Bigger is better? Not sure about that one but bigger certainly costs more. At work we now have a new super shiny quad core xeon with 4gb ram and set up in RAID 5 to host our virtual machines. That's great because before we had a 2gb single core raid 1 desktop machine doing the same job, so there should be a nice speed boost. But because we needed more processing power, more ram, more io speed we ran into problems.

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