My Nike Shoes - rebirth

I have bought this shoes for last year during CNY. It was so shiningly and sparkingly new. But after a whole year of wear and tear. and countless procrastination, the shoes had deteriorated to this state.

 Stains of dirt and dust and who knows what else on the top of it. Even the swoosh logo is also stained. And with CNY around the corner, 3 more days to be exact, I decided it its time for a cleaning.

These alcohol pads are obtained from a good friend of mine which had a bunch of those that he took while doing his internship at Gribbles Pathology. As you can see. It is clearly written, for disinfection use. Perfect.

This is how the shoes look after cleaning and wiping it thoroughly with the alcohol pad. First round cleaning.

The cleaned shoe, aside the uncleaned one. As you can see the stark difference by just a wipe.

 I decided to go further with the cleaning. Next the shoes is taken to wash using detergent which greatly removes stain and also rubbing it with a brush. Some water is gently poured onto the surface to wash away the soap bubbles. The result is a very perfect and nice shoes. Rebirth.

Zodiac.pl

Today while discussing about our Site MD sending a CNY greeting, we joked about him using a template and substituting the year and its respective zodiac sign. YH suggested it the zodiac might be a $ variable.


The $ variable is a common variable in perl. So I went and developed a simple script that allows the user to check whether that particular year is of which zodiac animal.

###############################################################################

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print " what year ? : \n" ;

$year = <STDIN> ;
chomp $year ;

@animals2 = qw ( monkey rooster dog pig rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse ram ) ;
$animals2 = @animals2 ;

$index = $year % 12 ;


print " $year is the year of the $animals2[$index]" ;


###############################################################################

The script uses the modulus operator , % to get the remainder of each division of the year against 12.
The index , $index is used to select which element of the array @animals2 to pick to determine what year is of what animal.


Notice the @animals2 array has been tweaked to adapt to our indexing counter $index.

My iDigi bill this month

So, few posts back , " Are they cheating my SMS usage " there is a very weird and funny SMS counter usage that I have stated. So from that day onwards I have been using WhatsApp more and more and also monitor my SMS usages.

The bill had come for this month. So far so good. No crazy SMS counters. One thing to ponder though. If a drastic reduction of SMS usages like this, wont it be even weird for the 600+ SMS usages few months back ? 


Another puzzling thing is that I have been charged 3 X RM0.50 for 3 international SMS. I have no idea whats that for. Ah well, since its a small amount, I shall let it pass then.

Like I mentioned earlier, the advantage of iDigi plans is that they provide unlimited data usage. I have used 221966718 bytes of data which roughly translates to 0.2GB. Well who cares anyway. 

1, Infinite Loop, California

Do you know that the address of Apple Inc's headquarters is 1, Infinite Loop ?


For those from non-programming background, an infinite loop is a term used to refer to a never-ending loop or subroutine that is running non-stop , hence infinite. This will cause the program unable to terminate, or unstable in a more layman term.

Apple is both cheeky and smart enough to name their headquarters like that. It is also geographically shaped like a loop with 6 buildings on the loop. Going through from 1, Infinite Loop to 6, Infinite Loop. Referred as IL1 to IL6 by the local residents.

        

                              


Even on iOS the Google Maps icon shows the location of the infinite loop, which I have boxed it with a red square to point it out. The number 280 refers to the Interstate 280 which is situated nearby.


Smart and cheeky isnt it ? 

AdSense WHY !!!!

For the third time !! AdSense rejected my application.. With nonsense or unacceptable reasons.. WHY ???

This is the first time my application got rejected : June 18th , 2010

Reason ? Unacceptable site content.

I did not post anything that violates the user agreement like porn or stuffs. But got rejected. Fine. I'll resubmit

The second time application rejected : December 3rd , 2010 

Reason ? Page type.

WHAT PAGE TYPE problems am i having ??

The latest rejection : January 21 , 2011 

Reason ? Unacceptable site content

For god's sake please look at my blog archive and tell me !!

WHICH PARTICULAR ENTRY IS UNACCEPTABLE ??

First they reject you, then they state the reason. Fine. Then they do not elaborate or state which particular problem is the cause of the rejection. How am I supposed to rectify whatsoever error / problem with my site in order to get approved ? 

DAMM !

My apps

Since I've gotten my iPhone on Oct 2010 till now, I have been downloading countless apps. Most of them free, a little minority ones paid , and about half are from apps that are freed for a certain period of time, courtesy of freeappalert

From the screenshot above , 185 Apps for iPhone and iPod touch

28 Apps that are universal , compatible for iPhone , iPod toch and iPad

And 8 Apps that are iPad exclusive.

How much apps in total ? 

266 Apps !! and a total size of 7.31GB. Imagine if I were to use a 32GB SSD thats like one-third of it gone. And if all of these apps are on my iPhone thats half of my iPhone's storage.

And guess what , the numbers are increasing everyday. Need to do some housekeeping on apps that havent been used / played for a long time.

Thaipusam , Public Holiday !! ( 20th Jan 2011 )

Well so today was a public holiday for me.
Get to sleep till 12 something.


What I did next was just watching TV , cooking lunch and updating some very large file size apps on iTunes that had been pending for days.


Was thinking to have a gathering with my long lost secondary school friends, but most of them didnt respond to SMSes and even facebook chats. Wonder did I have their old numbers or what. Well since it was too last minute decision and many of them still overseas and not back to penang, decided to delay it.


Made a facebook event page so everyone can keep track of any changes of the event. How life is made simple with facebook. Given the time and provided Im not lazy, will share how Google and its apps made life even simpler.


Since I am on facebook, might as well update my photo albums, many of which were abandoned. So went ahead and picked a few photos to add in.


I guess thats just my day.

very funny youtube personality

Recently I viewed some videos that are absolutely definitely funny.
These are made by a REMI GAILLARD.


He is sort of a prankster and have a friend record his pranks on ordinary people. I have embedded 2 videos of his exploits.


His is most known for disguising a a Lorient team player that won a competition, the 2002 Coupe de France autograph for fans and even shaking hands with the then president of France , Jacques Chirac as a player that doesnt exist.


Top 10 sports :

another funny video :

Are they cheating my SMS usage ?

I have a weird feeling about Digi over counting my SMS usages. I get crazy SMS counter every month !


Here's some evidence,

These are screen captures of my e-bill from digi. Look at that crazy amount of SMS. I went to Digi and asked their staff regarding this and apparently this is counted after the monthly free 200 SMS. Meaning I SMS a whopping 700~800 plus every month. And this is even after I installed WhatsApp ? 

For the coming month, I have set up a little monitoring of my SMS usages. If they overcharge, overcount again then i'm going to make some noise. Too bad I can only check unbilled amounts and not previous amounts that they have deleted after issuing the e-bill.

This is my account, monitoring my SMS usages. At 15th Jan 2011 my last known SMS usage counter was at 162. That means I have 38 more before they start charging me for each SMS i send. My statement date is 16th Jan, today. So, we'll see if there's anything fishy going on today.

Will update later on.

iDigi plans compared with other telcos

Continuing from the previous post,


Here's a quick comparison with iDigi plans and other telco plans. Again you can get the full table from


comparison


My blog version,

So, apart from the main difference, no bill shock for exceeding quota, the iDigi plan outshines the other telco plans too. I have no idea how they calculate the Digi Savings, but let me summarize and point out the obvious reasons.


Firstly, you have a lower monthly fee, RM88 vs RM100
Secondly , you get an even lower monthly fee during this promotion period, RM58 vs RM100
Thirdly , your monthly free SMS and MMS usage covers all networks vs same network only
Fourthly, no bill shock for usages within Malaysia, compared to 5 cents /10KB and up to a max of RM250
Fifthly , FREE calls , FREE SMS , FREE MMS to supplementary lines vs 15hrs calls , 1000 sms.


Having point out these 5 obvious reasons, there are still many that wish to stick with Telco M. Mainly due to Telco M having a better coverage and reception. Still , based on my personal experience, Digi isnt too bad for 3G browsing. There's even a video that proves this. Let me see if I manage to dig that out.

There it is. See for yourself.