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| Hidalgo's Las Virgenes Cristianas. It spoke to me, when I came across it. I stood for a long time staring at it. |
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| I liked Amorsolo's Dalagan Bukid a lot too |
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| A piece of art with a sense of humor. I like! |
Showing posts with label Everyday We Learn Something. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Everyday We Learn Something. Show all posts
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Thrice Upon a Time and other Exhibits
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
True or False - Confirming the Myths about your PC
[Disclaimer: great wall of text. But I don't give a flying F cos this info is useful]
Excerpt from article at CNET.com: Busting (or Not) Top 10 Myths about Technology
(1) You must wait 15 seconds before rebooting your computer
True, the question of how long to wait before rebooting a computer has to do with the health of the plates of the hard drive. Since the plates are spinning at speeds of up to 10,000 rpm, and need to come to a stop before rebooting, "it's definitely good that you wait just a little while" before restarting the machine.
5 sec should be sufficient.
(2) Size matters (in megapixels)
True, but "sharpness depends more on your photographic skill than the number of megapixels, because most people's sloppy technique or subject motion blurs the image more than the width of a microscopic pixel.
You really start noticing the differences when you blow the picture up," Matos said. But "it really depends on the size of the image, and how much you plan on blowing it up...If you blow it up to 16 by 20 [inches], you'll still maintain the quality, and you won't notice any difference in quality" with fewer megapixels.
(3) You have to run your nickel-cadmium battery all the way down before you charge it (My personal Fave)
True, The best possible thing you can do for your device's battery is, in fact, to run it down to zero before re-charging, each and every time. "If you start plugging an AC adapter in while it's half-charged, components in the battery start to settle, and so it doesn't maintain its ability to re-charge, and so you end up weakening the battery a lot quicker."
(4) You can put a keyboard you've spilled coffee on in the dishwasher
True, but it only applies to wired keyboards. As long as you don't use soap or warm or hot water, a cycle through the Kenmore will wash away the coffee and get you pounding away at the QWERTY before you know it.
(5) Anything stored digitally will last longer than that on analog media
False. Digital files run the risk of being corrupted, and some physical forms of digital media, such as CD-R discs, can begin breaking down in as little as three years.
(6) Turning a computer on and off regularly is bad for it
It's specifically recommended that you do power your machine off on a daily basis, for example at the end of each work day. Every computer needs its rest time, in part to be sure that if you're away from it and there are power fluctuations or surges, it isn't damaged by them.
As well, he said, it's recommended that if you're going to be away from your computer for small periods of time, you let it go to sleep while you're gone. But in any case, he said, a regular on/off pattern is definitely good for the computer, not bad. Oops.
(7) Macs are immune to viruses
False. It has much more to do with market share--there simply aren't anywhere near as many Macs out there as there are Windows machines. This reminds me of this C vendor. He kept expounding on how excellent his software is as compared to Windows, that there were significantly lesser bugs and security attacks. I was laughing to myself, thinking, sure, but how many people use your software? Or even know its existence?
(8) Your ISP is tracking everything you do
True. Your ISP "is your local link to the worldwide computer network known as the Internet," Dave Roos wrote on Get Stuff. Every page request you make and every e-mail you send must travel through your ISP's routers first. It would seem, therefore, that your ISP has the power to scan and save every piece of data that flows through its system."
But before you get alarmed, Roos also wrote: "The truth is that it does have the power. Fortunately for us, it doesn't have the money or the desire to archive every bit of information that comes its way. ISPs in the United States don't routinely save the Web surfing histories and e-mail conversations of their users. It would simply be too expensive to save all of that data and the public outcry from privacy rights and civil liberties organizations would be deafening." Of course, we know that is not true of Singtel, which offed alot of its loyal users to ODEX in the sensational (to the geek world at least) court case of ODEX vs everyone who downloads fan-subbed anime.
(9) Girls don't play video games
Definitely false (I can tell you myself) Women and girls make up a very large bloc of gamers--they just are a little more quiet about it.
Reuters reported that in an IBISWorld study, "38 percent of U.S. gamers are female, up from 33 percent in just five years. From January through August of 2008, females ages 18 to 45 made up 28 percent of the total industry revenue, ranking second to males ages 18 to 45, who made up 37 percent."
So while they may not be the largest group of gamers, it's clear that women and girls are spending their fair share of time playing.
(10) Anything you delete from your hard drive is gone forever
It's very difficult to permanently get rid of your data. And if you want to do so, you probably need to go get a drill.
"When you delete [data], yes, [its] icon may be gone, but that information is still intact on the hard drive. The only thing the computer does is [mark] that section to be overwritten. It just gives the operating system the OK to write over that area." This means, you may not ever want to just hand an old computer off to someone else if you're worried about them accessing your private data.
The only way to ensure that no one can ever access it is to bring tools to bear. "Let's say you're getting rid of an old computer, you're going to want to take the old hard drive, take a drill, and drill 10 to 12 holes through the drive--and not in a straight line. Scatter the holes and make sure they go straight through."
Or you can pay a lot of money and get them defragmented. I tried the water treatment, hammer treatment, I wanted to try the microwave treatment (but I resisted).
(1) You must wait 15 seconds before rebooting your computer
True, the question of how long to wait before rebooting a computer has to do with the health of the plates of the hard drive. Since the plates are spinning at speeds of up to 10,000 rpm, and need to come to a stop before rebooting, "it's definitely good that you wait just a little while" before restarting the machine.
5 sec should be sufficient.
(2) Size matters (in megapixels)
True, but "sharpness depends more on your photographic skill than the number of megapixels, because most people's sloppy technique or subject motion blurs the image more than the width of a microscopic pixel.
You really start noticing the differences when you blow the picture up," Matos said. But "it really depends on the size of the image, and how much you plan on blowing it up...If you blow it up to 16 by 20 [inches], you'll still maintain the quality, and you won't notice any difference in quality" with fewer megapixels.
(3) You have to run your nickel-cadmium battery all the way down before you charge it (My personal Fave)
True, The best possible thing you can do for your device's battery is, in fact, to run it down to zero before re-charging, each and every time. "If you start plugging an AC adapter in while it's half-charged, components in the battery start to settle, and so it doesn't maintain its ability to re-charge, and so you end up weakening the battery a lot quicker."
(4) You can put a keyboard you've spilled coffee on in the dishwasher
True, but it only applies to wired keyboards. As long as you don't use soap or warm or hot water, a cycle through the Kenmore will wash away the coffee and get you pounding away at the QWERTY before you know it.
(5) Anything stored digitally will last longer than that on analog media
False. Digital files run the risk of being corrupted, and some physical forms of digital media, such as CD-R discs, can begin breaking down in as little as three years.
(6) Turning a computer on and off regularly is bad for it
It's specifically recommended that you do power your machine off on a daily basis, for example at the end of each work day. Every computer needs its rest time, in part to be sure that if you're away from it and there are power fluctuations or surges, it isn't damaged by them.
As well, he said, it's recommended that if you're going to be away from your computer for small periods of time, you let it go to sleep while you're gone. But in any case, he said, a regular on/off pattern is definitely good for the computer, not bad. Oops.
(7) Macs are immune to viruses
False. It has much more to do with market share--there simply aren't anywhere near as many Macs out there as there are Windows machines. This reminds me of this C vendor. He kept expounding on how excellent his software is as compared to Windows, that there were significantly lesser bugs and security attacks. I was laughing to myself, thinking, sure, but how many people use your software? Or even know its existence?
(8) Your ISP is tracking everything you do
True. Your ISP "is your local link to the worldwide computer network known as the Internet," Dave Roos wrote on Get Stuff. Every page request you make and every e-mail you send must travel through your ISP's routers first. It would seem, therefore, that your ISP has the power to scan and save every piece of data that flows through its system."
But before you get alarmed, Roos also wrote: "The truth is that it does have the power. Fortunately for us, it doesn't have the money or the desire to archive every bit of information that comes its way. ISPs in the United States don't routinely save the Web surfing histories and e-mail conversations of their users. It would simply be too expensive to save all of that data and the public outcry from privacy rights and civil liberties organizations would be deafening." Of course, we know that is not true of Singtel, which offed alot of its loyal users to ODEX in the sensational (to the geek world at least) court case of ODEX vs everyone who downloads fan-subbed anime.
(9) Girls don't play video games
Definitely false (I can tell you myself) Women and girls make up a very large bloc of gamers--they just are a little more quiet about it.
Reuters reported that in an IBISWorld study, "38 percent of U.S. gamers are female, up from 33 percent in just five years. From January through August of 2008, females ages 18 to 45 made up 28 percent of the total industry revenue, ranking second to males ages 18 to 45, who made up 37 percent."
So while they may not be the largest group of gamers, it's clear that women and girls are spending their fair share of time playing.
(10) Anything you delete from your hard drive is gone forever
It's very difficult to permanently get rid of your data. And if you want to do so, you probably need to go get a drill.
"When you delete [data], yes, [its] icon may be gone, but that information is still intact on the hard drive. The only thing the computer does is [mark] that section to be overwritten. It just gives the operating system the OK to write over that area." This means, you may not ever want to just hand an old computer off to someone else if you're worried about them accessing your private data.
The only way to ensure that no one can ever access it is to bring tools to bear. "Let's say you're getting rid of an old computer, you're going to want to take the old hard drive, take a drill, and drill 10 to 12 holes through the drive--and not in a straight line. Scatter the holes and make sure they go straight through."
Or you can pay a lot of money and get them defragmented. I tried the water treatment, hammer treatment, I wanted to try the microwave treatment (but I resisted).
Monday, October 25, 2010
emulator: ERROR: the user data image is used by another emulator. aborting
A lot of people say the way to get rid of this problem "emulator: ERROR: the user data image is used by another emulator. aborting" is to go to ADB server and type the following line: adb kill-server && adb start-server (total noobs, this means you use command prompt then go to your android sdk folder then tools folder e.g. C:\Android...\tools \, and run that line).
Also there are people who advise (in Eclipse) going to Run Configurations-> Target (of the application you are trying to emulate) and click "Wipe User Data" option.
Actually I tried both. The only way it works for me, is to go to Task Manager and kill off the Emulator.exe process. Simple, isn't it? Haha.
Friday, August 6, 2010
You said Auf Wiedersehen to Privacy on this day 19 years ago
Tim Berners-Lee, the hero of all NEETs, Home Security Guards, Hikikomori, announced the birth of the Internet on this day 19 years ago.
Yes folks, thanks to this man, you have been watching free online porn on your computers since August 6 1991.
Yes folks, thanks to this man, you have been watching free online porn on your computers since August 6 1991.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
4分300块， 6分400快 (4 points S$300, 6 points S$400)
In case you were wondering if I had gone mental, this is my Food Hygiene course instructor's 口头禅 (pet phrase). He is referring to the revised penalties imposed on food preparation staff for bad hygiene practices.
My friend and I had to take a typhoid jab and this course before we could get a food preparation licence (keep reading this space to find out more on what we are planning to do later!!!). It is a 8 hour long course *faint* and we only found out when we arrived there for registration that we had to take a 49 question MCQ, an oral test and a hands-on test where we had to prepare a simple lettuce sandwich for sale. Very fun!
In fact, the entire day passed quickly and entertainingly. I have to say for all my years of education, this was the most fun day I ever had learning. The best part of the entire session? We got our certs at the end of the day after the tests!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thirsty in Taiwan?
This is the type of disposable paper cups that CKS Airport offers to thirsty passengers. It's like drinking from an envelope, with a delicious paper taste.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Mystery Shopping Singapore - Accolades
Excellent Service - These places are fantastic!!!
Also read: Mystery Shopping Singapore - Brickbats
| Outlet Name | Address | Experience |
| McDonald's Ridout Garden | 580 Queensway Singapore 149066 | 02 Feb 2010 - I didn't understand the receipt and was in an awful hurry so I ran off without looking. When I called back, the lady was very professional yet warm and friendly when explaining to me. Wrote a commendation letter to McDonald's later that morning. |
| Simply Toys | Vivocity #02-119 | 03 Feb 2010 - Accompanied my colleage to buy a replacement figurine but ended up buying one too. The lady was very helpful and took the initiative to recommend alternatives even though I initially wasn't interested. |
Also read: Mystery Shopping Singapore - Brickbats
Mystery Shopping Singapore - Brickbats Awards
Really Shit Service - Big chicks, don't go there and risk having a bad shopping experience. Really can ruin your day. Our size is our life choice, so fuck off already.
| Outlet Name | Address | Experience |
| Newspaper Booth | At Harbourfront Bus Stop | I always buy the weekend edition New Paper, which costs S$0.80. My colleague asked me to help him buy New Paper (week day), so I paid the Indian family who operate the booth S$0.80 twice and they never gave me back the S$0.10. Dishonest. |
| Euraugo | The Central Mall #01-37 | Smug look and said to my colleague "it's very expensive, you know". |
| potpourri / YIN & YANG | Plaza Singapura #B1-03/03A | 02 Feb 2010 - "Are you buying for someone else?" when I was holding onto a dress that I wanted to try. The minute I put it down, she hurriedly stacked it back to the original rack. |
| Southhaven | Wisma Atria #01-12 to 13 | near CNY period in 2006 - "We don't carry your size". |
Also read: Mystery Shopping Singapore - Accolades
Friday, January 15, 2010
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Twitter Twitter 1 - Hellish Exercise this morning
Violin case + Bag full of 4 library books, 1 15" laptop, breakfast, water bottle and a music book + kitten heels + 8 min before the bus comes and it is on the opposite side of the overhead bridge and I am still at home== bloody horrible running episode. Talk about jiggling the fats.
I almost snapped my ankle when dashing after the bus. Felt the impact shoot up my leg. And then I realised I forgot my laptop charger...
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