Category: General

And today is one of them… usually I dont do too many things on a Saturday, but today I collected my 8×12″ prints from the neighbourhood shop, bought extra piping, fitted them onto the water heater, water sealed the joints (just in case it leaks in the future again!), washed my car and watched a DVD. And its just 6:30pm now. Just feel good. too bad I dont have my digital SLR with me now, or else I would have taken something like 100 shots.

While I was at the Nikon Service Centre last friday, I managed to obtain a brochure for the Nikon F5 SLR body. Considering between the older F4 and the F5, but the F5 was all they had.
Brought it to the office hoping to read the brochure over there on Monday but I can’t find it anymore. No idea where I left it, other than remembering it was on my office table… arrgggh!!!

Had a corroded water pipe burst today at home. Its the little jumper pipe connecting the water heater to the shower. On first inspection, looks like the hot water has somehow corroded the connectors (made of metal that looks like steel).
Managed to buy a replacement flexible pipe (less than 1ft long) but will have to investigate if this is becuase of wrongly spec’ed pipes or just that the old pipe came from a bad batch.
Continue reading “Hot water rain”

Just finished the upgrade for Movable Type from version 2.661 to 3.14. Had some temporary problems with the upgrade in the beginning. The script mt-upgrade30.cgi just gave a server error whenever it ran so the upgrade was not possible. The solution for that was, I had to copy the MT 3.14 files into the old directory structure on a local hard disk and after deleting the whole MT directory on the web server, I copied the whole local directory to the server. Basically, doing the copy & replace of the old 2.661 files on my PC instead of the server. After that, running mt-upgrade30.cgi and mtupgrade31.cgi was fine.
So the moral… backup before you upgrade..

Had the unfortunate combination of squeaky suspension and worn out tires on my Proton Waja the last few months. Since the next few weeks will be relatively busy, I got out for the 75000 km servicing and got both the nagging problems fixed.
The standard suspension is supposed to come from Kayaba and its crap as far as I know. I remembered just changing it last year about the same time and 365 days later its squeaking. Changed it into a pair of Monroes for the front and back. On the box at least its supposed to be made in Argentina. That’s the last place I would have thought of for a country manufacturing shock absorbers!
Continue reading “Major Car Servicing”

Sent in my D70 for checkup and repair yesterday. The typical waiting time for Malaysia’s Nikon Service Centre to know what’s wrong with the camera is 3 weeks! They’re asking me to call them back after about 2 weeks to check the status.

I was in Kuching Sarawak when it hit so I didn’t even know about it till it came out on BBC and CNN news. I’ve heard that you can feel the tremors in Kuala Lumpur when you’re in a high rise building but when I got back yesterday everything in my apartment looks intact.
In Penang and the northern states in Malaysia with coastlines facing Andaman Sea the story is not the same.

Was on the flight from KL to Kuching today and when I got back I realise that the new PC just wouldn’t start. after a little troubleshooting, I realise that the processor fan has come loose from the motherboard during transit. It took some time to put it back on and the computer just won’t start becuase the fan connector to the motherboard just isn’t connected at all.
So far I managed to put it ogether but I think the contact between the processor and the fan is not that great anymore… got to look for a new proceesor fan unit.. maybe a Cooler Master!!!!

Whats up with that? I usually try to go in last so that I dont have to fight to get into the plane but by murphys law, 60% of the time, someone’s already sitting on my seat. Its always they misread what’s on their boarding pass, or they’re just ignorant. The fact that they face humilation when I tell them they can’t read for nuts just don’t sink into their mind. Continue reading “Suckers sitting on your seat on flights”

Ok, is xmas today but I’ve been thinking about how I can modify MT on this site so that I get less spam without limiting or crippling “allow comments” on the site. I’ve installed some blacklisting plugins, but what is lacking so far are plugins that allow you to modify whether to allow comments or not on a wholesale basis…. like a batch function. Will be looking for it today…