Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Ginji's site of the Month: proudly brought to you by Ginji. YaY! CLAP CLAP.

www.pandora.com - the best thing since sliced bread. and then some. basically it takes in the name of an artist you like and then plays you back other music from artists that have the same musical qualities as the artist you like, from this musical database called the MUSIC GENOME PROJECT, which classifies songs according to the "genes" they have, like "melodic phrasing", "minor key tonalities", For eg i fed in m2m, my fav most underrated band and got back music from delta goodrem, aimee mann and meredith brooks(i feel vinicated) . I tried britney spears and got back trash from jump5 , christina aguilera, janet jackson and myra(?). So yea this site gets my two thumbs up, way up! Sadly it only has english artists inside. Oh and you have to input a valid US zip code for it to work (search online).

Monday, December 19, 2005


this has no relavance whatsoever...but i couldn't resist....sayumi and charmy 4ever! (charmy is the one whose back is towards us) Posted by Picasa

finally someone gets it right(not me though) Posted by Picasa

cursing bcos i can't use the k750i part2 Posted by Picasa

cursing bcos i can't use the k750i properly Posted by Picasa

bluetooth jacking 101 for dummies (really.) Posted by Picasa

holding a thermometer and rapping Posted by Picasa

er what is joel doing? Posted by Picasa

group shot Posted by Picasa

cooking with mum Posted by Picasa

rolranie ouy liwl eb iin my rdames niteot

Just got my first real break in 2 weeks after having church camp and chirstmas parties over the last 2 weekend...got somepics to post..

looked at the crowd at orchard over the weekend and at tampines...makes you wonder where all the singaporeans hide the rest of the year...

new com just came in...anybody wants to name it? Only condition- must be female. Japanese and english names are acceptable as long as i can add a -chan to it...(bad eg. jennifer-chan).
Specs: 256 mb ram imnetgrated video and sound running windows xp. oh and it has 3 hard drives, one 40 gb internal, one 80 gb internal and one 40 gb external.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Official Sudokulist :)

Ok i have a new online addiction: Sudoku!http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/sudoku/play.php

Its this brutal japanese puzzler thats eats your brain cells for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The thing is on easy difficulty it starts off quite simple enough but as the difficulty ramps up you have to use your own logic to solve through the puzzles...and sudoku forces you to develop your own techniques as you go along. You literally learn how to fill in the blanks yourself. As the difficulty ramps up the numbers they give you get lesser and lesser, they get more similar and the areas for guesswork gets bigger and bigger. I started off having to use a lot of guesswork cos i would reach a point where there were 2 possible numbers and i'll just follow the path of one of the numbers until it eventually falls apart but those situations are getting lesser and lesser :)

Its supposedly quite popular worldwide but hey i'm still a n00bie..
i just tried out this new bittorrent client called µtorrent and man this thing is wacked out! it is only 100+kb in size but it is a full feature client in the same vein as azureus and bitcomet. Unfortunately singapore users should currently still stick with bitcomet beacuse of two important features - nat transversal and packet encryption. i'm not sure about other service providers but starhub has this transparent proxy on the server site which messes up the connections to certain trackers. nat transversal punches this hole through and allows two people behind firewalls and proxies to connect to each other. packet encryption disguises bittorrent traffic and allows it to bypass some (not all) university filters.

my download speed on bitcomet is currently 4x as high as those i get on µtorrent but once µtorrent adds these features its gonna be my default client. my sis is always complaining that my downloads are slowing her msn and internet surfing, which is quite true but while using µtorrent i didn't notice any slowdown. average memory usage by bitcomet can reach as high as 15mb but µtorrent only reached 5mb which is a lot considering i only have 96 mb of ram...