My latest pathetic effort

(This is taken from my old blog, stinxatcoding.blogspot.com)

I wanted to redo the Tail Chasers blog. The focus on the site had always been to get content out to readers, especially other members of the gang (of course *haha*), so I stuck to the plain but serviceable design provided by Blogspot.

So on Saturday, thoroughly sick of drawing little girls, I drew inspiration from two online pictures of my favourite anime doggy, Menchi メンチ from Excel Saga. Unfortunately notoriously 3-min-degree me lost interest in redoing the layout, and ended up creating a persona out of it.

It's still being approved by the POC, so once it's up, I will post the link to the gallery. Any support this SAP (sad artist/programmer) is greatly appreciated, even though my menchi looks very kitty-like. In the meantime, this is how it will look like in your browser.


FYI: Learn how to install and personalise your Firefox with Personas here.

Help! I cannot keep up with Google!!!

There are too many fun stuff going on at Google as well as at my own side.

Too many distractions. I have hardly enough sleep as it is. I couldn't figure out whether I should concentrate on Android, Go or Google Wave dev.  These are the three I hold most dear, because (1) I want to develop Android tools and games (and hopefully get some $$ out of a hobby at last) (2) I fear it will replace Java lang for Android (3) I wanted to develop a multi player game on a wave.

Even blogging has become a problem, especially since I had to leave my Tail Chasers blog (I can't even put down the link for fear of GIYBF) and therefore I lost all the hits I had,  which was pretty maddening on top of the mocking that I am not above reacting to ( I did try for two weeks to be a bigger person, but with my OCD, I became even more upset with the latest posts, e.g. comments, frequency and content). So I have been spending many days trying to get hit by Google, and I admit at last that I am obsessed with getting hits from Mountain View, Cal, which I can track with my Wowzio widget.

I got a developer account at Google Wave some months ago, but because I have too many code names I have forgotten which one was the one I used to sign up to Google Wave Sandbox. Up until last week, when my ex boss who loves to show off how more plugged in he was into the latest IT stuff, than  me, (who is competing???),  told me triumphantly that he has the latest preview Google Wave account, I had not logged in since I had locked myself out.

"Oh, I have a developer one." I answered tiredly. When I was telling Town Mouse about it, Town Mouse was like, "you have a developer account?? How come you didn't tell me?" Seriously, did no one read my stinxatcoding blog? Turned out it was a big deal to have a preview or developer account at Google Wave, because Google was stingy with accounts. I did not know that. 

Town Mouse asked me to invite him. So I tried to login to both Sandbox and Preview. Well, after I asked the administrator to unlock my Developer account, I searched for hours for my invite to the Preview account. While I have been reading the emails going into my gmail account, I had not been seriously following the development at Wave.And now I have been left behind, sobs!

So latest reprioritisation of time:

Latest Project

Wave

Android

Think I will leave Go to the experts, who will hopefully build a Eclipse equivalent for Go by the time I am ready. =B

Congratulate the Terrier Yip!!! for moving on

It was driving me nuts. I had to do something. So I did.

On another front, I noticed that Google has now has this changes.g (oh crap, it's go) that tracks the updated blogs on Blogspot. Disturbing... but so lovely to read (I hate it when bloggers don't update their blogs regularly or hide their entries. For the former I suggest, Get a Life, and the latter, Get a Diary.). Say for example, I am still trying to figure out whether this girl has turned lesbian since breaking up with her boyfriend...So distracting. Keke. I was also the delighted new audience of a new malay blog which featured  Kesha's Tik Tok (haha, I tot it was a black chick singing this song...).

Magazines are put on hold for the time being. Thanks for thy patience.

梁山伯与祝英台（梁祝）小提琴独奏谱 Violin Solo for Butterfly Lovers

This is the famous "Are you going to Die, Die already become Butterfly, Butterfly fly so high in the sky,You die I die, everyone cry." Star-crossed lovers who met when she and her maid pretended to be boys to be educated, and he was her classmate. But her father who had behaved very progressively in the beginning, made her marry another man, and then her lover pined for her so much that he died. When the bride was collected in her sedan on her wedding day, she requested that her wedding route included his grave, where she threw herself into his grave (which somehow opened up). Very creepy. Especially when two butterflies suddenly rose up from the grave into the sky.

原站

Da Pinchi Code

Excerpt from Daily Mail article "The Burglars' Code: Criminals chalk messages which pinpoint targets for other villains", 2 Dec 2009

Burglars are scribbling chalk marks outside homes to let fellow criminals know which properties to target.

The symbols - dubbed 'the Da Pinchi Code' - may indicate that a home is wealthy, has already been burgled or may have nothing worth stealing.

Police have revealed the signs are being drawn outside sprawling homes in advance of them being targeted by criminal gangs. Detectives released information on the plot yesterday after a number of properties across the affluent Tandridge district in Surrey were targeted in recent weeks.