I was holiday in Singapore, and I am surprise that, almost every vending-machine that I come across on the streets has this stickers on it that says “Vending machine design prevents dispensing free products or coins. NEVER ROCK OR TILT: Machine can fall over causing serious injury or death!“
Ok… I went to my local mall today to catch a movie and this is what saw in one of the children fashion outlet… :-O
The I.T called me up today and asked me to pickup my new phone from them, its a SonyErricson P1i ! ^_^
I waited I got home, and un-box the package with my washed hand 
Swap in my SIM card, and plugged in its battery, viola, IT’s ALIVE~
After fiddling with it for a while, I realize that it could not connect to my home wifi, which seems odd, my colleague’s N95 connected to it without any fuss…
Another problem that I found, is that I can’t get my Motorola H700 bluetooth head set to pair with my new phone.
A quick browse for solution on the www, found that plenty of people has the exact same problem as I, it is not until I found the following articles that solve both my problem:
In most cases P1i connects to the network but the applications cannot access the web.
I had the same problem but the solution i found was to reduse the threshoud to 2346.
For this go to internet accounts /more/advanced and change RTS threshold to 2346 and powersave to OFF
now ur browser should be able to access the web.
2. Unable to pair Motorola H700
1. With the mic closed, press the call button and hold it for a few seconds.
2. When the purple (or lavender) light comes on, open immediately the mic while the light is on. After you do this, the light will flash two times and then will remain steadily lit (If the light die off after the boom was flip out, then maybe the connection of the boom is loose, so after you flip it out, FORCE it out a little further, that should make sure this steps work).
3. Your headset will be now in pairing mode.
I must say that another thing that I’m actually shock is that it does not come with a “joy-stick” like my old K700i, although I’m expected that its a “PDA” phone after all.
Now that I’m happy, the keys are still something I need to get used to, qw-er-ty keyboard on a phone… hm….
Years ago when I first saw this JERKER at the local IKEA store I’ve fall in love with it. But with the price high on my budget, I only get to visit it when I visits IKEA, sit with it for a while, and imagine that its mine~
And today, I find it shocking that IKEA has discontinue this great product, and lucky for me, I manage to get the last unit (a display unit) that is fairly new enough, plus some discount on its original price.
IKEA policy, which you have to disassemble the “AS-IT” unit yourself and bring it home yourself, not that I complain too much, but when I reach home with my JERKER, I could not remember which part to go with which. Panic and turn to my best friend Google and lucky enough for me, I’ve found a PDF copy of the manual : ) and here me with my JERKER~
In case you’re looking for the manual yourself, download it here.
And I think I’m weired, but wait until you’ve read BEHOLD! THE SHRINE TO THE IKEA JERKER DESK!
Many years ago when I was in my first job, my manager come up to me and instruct me to make duplicates copy of my work in CDs and he would bring back a copy back to his home, I was thinking that he must have love my work so much that he wanted a copy in his home so he could hang up the CDs on walls and show to his guest that how lucky he was to have such a valuable employee like me ^_^
Many years later when I was visiting our company data center, a shot of thick smoke racing to the sky caught my eyes, and I was thinking some @#$% is doing open burning! That’s illegal!
Not before long I realize that the smoke was coming out from a data center cluster just next to our company’s data center, it’s ON FIRE! The fire was clearly visible from the doors and windows, and people are running out from the burning building. The fire engine response in about 10-15 minutes later, and some 15 more minutes after that the fire was brought down.
Me mingling with the data center technician that gather outside the burning building and over heard one talking to another:
A: “I just did a backup this morning…”
B: “Thank God, at lease we have our data in a safe place…”
A: “Uh… the backup server is right next to the one I’m backing up…”
B: “…..”
Well, I guess they don’t have a boss that appreciate their work like I had~ ; )
And for those of you who are having hard time to convince your manager to invest on off-site backup, maybe this is a good time to to send him this link ; )
Months ago when me and my friend were shopping in Ikea to buy a office chair for my SOHO, looking at the price tags of things I was jokingly told my friend saying that perhaps that we could ask Ikea if they can hire us an “actor”, Ikea don’t need to pay us, but just allow us to sit in their office spaces and work on our own real projects, this way Ikea can show case how “real” people are utilizing the Ikea furniture, and we get a nice furnished office facility to use, sounds great huh? But of course, that remain as a though for both of us, we dint really approach Ikea about our idea.
Months passed, and while I was reading an article over cnn.com , this came up in the news: http://www.marklivesinikea.com/
Although this guy is not using the office space like we intended to do, but the idea was pretty closed… The friend of mine is watching the video now, and imagine that it could have been him in the video ^_^
This was the intro shown on his website : )
Mark moved in early morning Monday January 7th to the IKEA in Paramus, New Jersey and will stay for the week through Saturday January 12th. Every day people can watch a video recap of his day. He will be living in IKEA 24/7 and eating all his meals in the restaurant (he may order Domino’s take out once or twice). Thankfully they have a shower for him in the back offices.
I was driving to work in the morning, and listen to the radio, so happen that the DJ is reciting a news article that reporting on the police has issue a warning to people that in the law stated that if a person is convicted in possession of pornography VCDs, that person can be sentence to jail for not more then 6 months, fine not less then RM5k and not not more then RM50K, or both.
So, that’s fine, right until one DJ is asking the other DJ that so “IF” someone were to “so happen” to own a few copies of this porn VCDs/DVDs, what can you do to destroy it? So, the DJ offer some tips, “snap it in half”, “use as a coaster” (wouldn’t that mean you are still in possessions of the meterial?) , “run a magnet over the disc” … WHAT? Hang on! “RUN A MAGNET OVER THE DISC“? Are you kidding me? Since when running a magnet over a optical disc media would destroy it? Hello! Wake up, we’re not in the 80s anymore and we’re not using magnetic disk! Running a magnet over you VCDs/DVDs will not destroy a bit.
Em… I was shopping in Tesco for grocery and come across two bottles of olive oil, between “Extra Virgin” and “none virgin” … which will you pick?
After grinding through Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained, I find myself left with hollow, and hungry for more, but the next book won’t be out until around 2010… hm…. long wait…. : (
I love Peter F. Hamilton’s writing, don’t be scare off by the thick book (1000+ pages) and seems endless lines of text. Its style always begins with illustrating a number of seems to unrelated stories in different chapters, introduce you to vast numbers of characters, its environment, and ultimately the seems so unrelated action inter-effecting the course of story in the universe. Rather then viewing the entire story through a single hero point of view (like most books), he detailed the universe in multiple point of view of its characters.
I’ve made my mind, can’t wait for 2010, I went down to MPH last weekend and picked up The Reality Dysfunction, the first book in the “Night’s Dawn Trilogy”… ^_^ this will fill my void for a while~~
