So I made like 5 calls to Optus today. Got transferred here and there but eventually I managed to get what I want.
Termination fee is $730 for the first 12 months regardless, after the first 12 months it’s a percentage. The termination fee is calculated based on the plan you FIRST signed up with. Doesn’t [...]

I used to “forum” regularly on neowin.net but then I stopped. It was mainly to do with the fact that I switched over to linux and neowin is a predominantly “windows” community (despite the fact that they have their own disgusting flavour of linux that is based on Ubuntu). Another reason was that I’m easily [...]

So I’m thinking of upgrading my iphone 3g to the new 3g s. Some of you may be thinking “what’s the point? The new phone isn’t that much better and the current 3g is fine”.
True. All so true.
But, let’s look at it from another perspective. How much would a first generation iphone fetch these days? [...]

Today I will be releasing the Release Candidate of my Chatlog to Email Converter Plus!
I added “Plus!” as it is designed for Messenger Plus! chatlogs.
It now supports every form of Messenger chatlogs text or html and also has emoticon support.
Requirements:

Python 2.6 (preferable, 2.5 should also work but untested)
Beautiful Soup
Mozilla Thunderbird

Wishlist:

Remove Thunderbird requirement and support direct [...]

Over the years you will find that your contact list gets cluttered. You’ve deleted people, blocked people or even both. Maybe others have deleted you, blocked you or both. For the people that have blocked or deleted you…why bother keeping them on your contact list?
Why not delete them? But then how do you tell who’s [...]

I’ve talked about how fail Optus is before, this will be another one of those rants.
Well, Optus released pricing and release dates for the upcoming iPhone 3GS but it didn’t say anything about upgrading from an existing iPhone plan. So I decided to call them up instead.
I was greeted by the usual computer. My question [...]

I wrote my first MP!L script last night. Took me around 2 hours. Downloaded the documentation, created my first hello world script…again, created a test gui window, played around with toasts and what not. I was testing everything using Francis. Quite hilarious.
Well I finished the script at around 12:30am. It was quite amazing. I didn’t [...]

I installed a Facebook Connect plugin so now people can connect using Facebook and post up comment. Only problem is that my previous theme breaks with the plugin. I also realised it fails at handling “replies”. E.g. when you reply using the old theme, it doesn’t bother nesting the comment but rather just links back [...]

So I was walking home today after a rather unexpected QQ exam. I was thinking why does our justice system support “emotions”. Maybe you law students can explain it to me.
For example, when a person commits murder and shows remorse why would his/her sentence be shorter or less harsh than someone that didn’t show remorse? [...]

Facebook Vanity Links have been up for around 30 minutes now. I have my own vanity link
www.facebook.com/john.jiang
Whilst I’m here I might as well talk about things like OpenID and Gravatar.
OpenID is great. It means I can log into supported sites with my gmail account! Sites like wordpress.com and  stackoverflow.com supports OpenID. The idea [...]