Author: bt

If you use eBay for a while you know how crappy it is to refresh the web interface in the last minute to make sure that someone doesn’t snipe you in the last minute with that 0.50cent higher bid…
I was scouring the internet for a realtime software that will allow me to look at the live current price and allow me to place bids without going into the eBay website.

Came up with JbidWatcher… which is a freeware as far as I remember. Tried it with 2 auctions last night and it works well! The update on the price is not exactly realtime, but the time is, and if you dont have that many items on the watch list it actually updates rather often. I’m having it set to enter my final price 10 seconds before the end of the auction… automatically. Nice software.

JBidWatcher: Java-based auction bidding/sniping and management software

Been almost 3 months since our arrival in Paris. Its also been almost 3 months since I posted anything on this site. What has happened since?
Waited almost 2 months for our triple play service with Free.fr, one of the many internet services over here in Paris. The thing that won them over for me? The free VOIP calls to Singapore. Ok there are a lot of TV channels (though less than in the US of course) but most of them you dont really think about watching at all. There’s no Discovery Channel, and I think even if there’s one its going to be in French anyway.
Continue reading “Update July 2006: Freebox”

Looks I got discovered by a special version of a spambots in the last 1 month. Usually I dont get so many useless comments from people with strange nonexistant emails, but this time I have more than a thousand of them!
That’s it, I’m going to delete them all, and close all comments on the blog. IF you guys are trying to reach me, then you should know my email address. Send it there instead. I’m fed up of the spambots.

According to the inflight flight path on channel 99, I’m over Bhopal India right now. Yeah, got to play with a free 30min trial of Boeing’s Connexion service on Singapore Airlines. On my way to Paris today and trying to time my sleep so that I can go to the office today and pretend to work.
The signup is easy enough, almost like any other wifi service (by the way the AP SSID is Connexion1, and since I only have a 802.11b system, I dont know if it works in 802.11g). You enter your given free login and password, and then key in some personal details (just the name and email address, and forced to read some EULA crap).

Internet onboard is surprisingly fast. I was expecting something like a second more lag since we’re probably going thru some satellite up there, but its faster than any land line ADSL crap they have in Malaysia. Ok, probably only have 20 more mins left so let me surf.

Just left Kuala Lumpur this evening on my way to Paris for a year. Stopping by Singapore for a few days first. The checked in luggage was almost at thelimit. Although the official limit is 20kg per person in this part of the world, the rule of thumb is that if you dont exceed 30kg each you’re safe. The only problem is I have a backpack full of photographic equipment and a trolley with two notebooks (one powerbook for personal use and a Dell for the office) so the hand carry is already at least 20kg!
I’ve created a new category called France, which I hope to document the 1 year in France starting next week… If everything according to plan.