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Archive for May, 2009
Wha? You don’t “know” me?
May 29th
You know how there’s always that person who you always see but whom you never talk to? When you do meet it’s sorta awkward.
Happens to me all the time. I remember second year uni, there’s this guy that I ALWAYS “meet” as I walk towards the station. It’s probably okay if it’s a busy street but most of the time there isn’t more than 5 people walking on it during the morning. We would always just walk past each other. The thing was I noticed him even when it wasn’t that street…sometimes I’d be early and bump into him as I enter the station. Weird.
I guess it’s also true back in High School. You always see the same people in other grades but you never talk to them, when you finally “meet” them, it’s always like “Oh hi, you’re that guy that’s in the year above/below me!” It becomes even more creepy when you have no idea who they are. I was with my brother at his Swimming school and one of the instructors just approaches me and asks if I go to High. I realised he was in the grade below me but I have no clue who he was…never seen the guy in my life if you ask me.
Today, it was one of those days where I finally spoke to this person who I’ve been seeing ever since UNI first started. This girl was EVERYWHERE…(realised she did the same degree as me so that explains a lot). We were in the same lectures and tutes and be walking the same path, but we never utterd a word to each other. We finally introduced each other today and she was like “Do you do <insert subject here>? Cause I’ve never seen you before”. I can’t say that I wasn’t a bit offended, or maybe I’m just a tiny bit too observant. At least it wasn’t awkward.
On a side note, I managed to get embedded images working in my html chatlog to email converter!!! I realised that in Python there’s actually an Email module >.< Is there anything you don’t have python?!
I’ve also been fixing up entries from my old blog, if a particular entry is “broken” or looks “wrong” let me know kthnx.
Fanmail count is now 3.
@Angel Lam, No I do NOT have a GF, why don’t we meet up sometime?
High Beam Madness
May 26th
What’s with people and using their high beam? I get so pissed off when the person behind me has their high beam on. I literally can’t see shit behind or on either side of me. It gets more annoying when it’s a red light. The light bounces nicely onto my rear and side mirrors directly into my face.
It happened to me twice today, once driving to Auburn RSL and again on the way back. If you have broken headlights, please go fix it before driving on the highway with your bloody HIGH BEAM. I honestly felt like changing lanes just to get behind them and flash them couple of times with my uber high beam.
That said, today’s AI lecture was about finding centroids, and something about how it can be used for image compression.
And our AI assignment results is still yet to be released. I’ve asked her twice over two consequtive weeks and she said “Next week” on both occassions. Just got an email from her saying that it’ll be released next week…our final week of UNI…that said…when will our Assignment 2 (that’s due tomorrow) be marked? At the current rate it’ll probably be marked after the exams are over…which leads to the question of when the exam will be marked.
On a side note, I’m getting A LOT of traffic from facebook. It’ll be more exciting if I can find out for sure who actually visited. From what I gather, somebody clicked my link from Jason’s and/or Terry’s profile page.
Oh also, some of you may have noticed the BIG FAT “DONATE” BUTTON.
If you have money…feel free to give it to me. If you have a job that’s paying more than $20 an hour on a part-time/casual basis…hire me!
Yes I’ve been unemployed for 3 months now, that’s a loss of around $5000. Man…I wish I had that money right now.
I was young…and naive
May 25th
I finally did what I’ve been meaning to do for I dunno…8 months now? I finally have all the entires from WCEXO exported to my WordPress blog. I’ve had nearly 800 comments from that blog. Too bad the exporter that I used doesn’t include names and I can’t be bothered going through all those comments and manually adding names.
It has lots of great stories/memories of my High School years. I may not have lots of pictures and what not but I do have my words. Looking back…or shall I say reading back on what I wrote before I’ve realised that I was such a…noob. (And yes…in another 4 years I’ll look back upon these entries and say the same thing)
But yes, I do encourage you to flick some of the old archives and pick out something to read, you might laugh (hopefully not at me). I’ve been having a somewhat dry spell lately when it comes to blogging. I find it amazing that within my circle of friends I’m still one of the few that still do it.
If you have any ideas on what I should write about, drop a comment and maybe if you’re lucky, I might write about it…you might even get a mention.
Quick Guide – Setting up Pop3 for new USYD Uni Mail
May 9th
Quick and dirty guide on setting up pop3 for the new USYD Uni Mail.
Chatlog to Email Converter RC
May 3rd
Please see this post for updated version
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Today I’ll be releasing the RC of the Classic Chatlog to Email Converter
For you to use this you must satisfy the following conditions:
- That chatlogs you want converted must pre-date Messenger Plus 3.0 or whatever version that was released prior to June 2006
- You must have python installed (preferably the latest stable 2.x version)
- You must have chardet installed
- You must install Thunderbird
Todo:
- Threading for even faster performance!
Wishlist:
- Automatic uploading to your email account
I actually have a WORKING unicode supported script for HTML chatlogs, however, I’ve yet to get the emoticons/handwriting pics working but you’ll probably see a release some time soon in the future.
Instructions:
- Move all your pre-June 2006 messenger plus chatlogs to a folder
- Place the script inside the folder
- Double click to run the script
- A file called “Chatlog” will be created
- Move that file to <Path to thunderbird preferences>\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Mail\Local Folders
- Open up Thunderbird and drag drop the chatlogs to an email account that supports imap
