I’ve been wanting to say this for the longest time. Since receiving this mass email this morning, I thought it might as well be now. SOME NUS STUDENTS ARE REALLY VERY STUPID! Does it make sense to leave a notebook out there in the open, walk away from it, and expect it to stay put exactly where you left it when you return 10 minutes later?
Monthly Archives: September 2008
My Cheque from Google Adsense
Yeah, it’s my turn to show off my Google Adsense cheque. It’s a small little sum of money. It will be cool if it can grow to a tidy monthly income, but for now, it will suffice as some occasional pocket money to make myself feel good. It’s cool, because the extra income is a side effect of what I want to do anyway. It has taken quite a few months to accumulate enough earnings to cash out, but hopefully…
Death Of A Server
One of my servers died recently. A few days prior to that, there was something very odd with its clock, which was stuck between 03:14:31 and 03:14:35. Then on its last day, it suffered a kernel panic. After a hardware power cycle, the server never came back up. It’s like it suffered a heart attack, and CPR and defribillation failed to resuscitate it.
Apple Sweeps All Awards
Nowadays, Apple picking up awards from a “PC” magazine isn’t very surprising anymore. This time, Apple has once again swept up all the awards from PC Magazine’s 21st Annual Reader Survey in all the categories of Desktop and Notebook computers. This is in the September 2008 issue of PC Magazine, which I don’t normally read but happened to chance upon a copy in my workplace yesterday.