Courtesy of some work mates at Macquarie, my repository of information has grown.
Last night I had around 4.5 bottles of beer, which is more or less my record at this stage. Beer usually tastes like piss after 2 bottles in which case I move on to spirits but due to lack of spirits, and free [...]

Happy new year!
So in China we have a saying which literally translated is “Good good study, day day up”. It basically means “Study hard, focus on improvement each day”. I thought it was quite funny since my mum wrote it in an email to my cousin.
We then had a debate where she was saying how [...]

Christmas is really not that exciting in our household. Parents are both working on Christmas Eve and Day. I asked my bro “What day is it tomorrow?” and he replies with “Um, Friday…” (instead of Christmas). In the morning I asked him “Do you want to open up your presents?” in which his response was [...]

I came across this youtube clip either on Digg or Reddit, most likely Reddit.

It was pretty mesmerising to watch. Generally I don’t comment on youtube clips but this time something perturbed me. Towards the end of the clip the guy says “Now as for slurping, well, it will just be plain rude not to”. Nothing [...]

This semester is probably the worst I’ve had so far, ironic as I actually thought it’d be one of the best.
I mean…12cp major project, you finally get to do something that you enjoy doing, come up with something original but instead, we were lured into a project that seemed interesting at the time (robots, wiimote, [...]

I check the statistics of my blog every now and then it makes me wonder sometimes if a real person is going through my posts progressively or if it’s a web crawler. Unfortunately, wordpress doesn’t track IPs so I can’t tell if it’s a bot. Funnily enough “someone” or “something” visited my Epitome post. The [...]

When last semester began I was offered some job working for a start-up company that was interested in having “university-ties”. I thought it would be a pretty good opportunity. It involved using web technologies and python. A month after the offer, I still didn’t hear of anything, I wasn’t too phased about it. The excuse [...]

This is a rant about the uselessness of anti-virus programs. My argument is that having one installed is no different to not having one installed.
Anti-virus programs serve one purpose and one purpose only, to prevent viruses from entering your computer. But in order to do that you have to be regularly updated and you also [...]

I’ve been changing timetables for students of USYD for three full days now and you get a wide range of personalities. Most people fall into one of the below categories.
The Arts Student – The type that demands to have all their classes on as little days as possible. These people sometimes find the nerve to [...]

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 [...]