Flickr, you freaked me out twice today
August 31st, 2007
So, what’s with flickr today? Twice today, when I went to my very own fotos page, it says I have no fotos…
Archive for August, 2007
Despamming can be quite addictive
August 29th, 2007
Maybe this is kinda weird, but sometimes I do find despamming quite addictive. Today I am despamming one of our wikis at work. I know I don’t have to do this alone/myself, I know I should spend my time on other stuff like actually looking for a better anti-spam plugin or researching for other solutions. But somehow the exercise of copying and pasting the wiki username and reverting the changes the spammers made gave me a weird sense of security.
It’s like when you see something messy and you just can’t resist cleaning it up. The only other web-related experience I can relate to is cleaning up my gmail inbox. Gmail gives me so much space that I don’t need to worry about storage, but I hate it when I see many pages of mail. So, one time I just kinda spent 2 hours or so to archive and actually label all my mail (mind you, most of them are newsletters from the gazillion things I signed up for online and many of them are registration emails from the same gazillion things 
). Despamming feels like that, but this is even better because I am actually purging a bunch of junk from the database.
Oh yeah, it feels gooooood!
Pictures: Hangzhou and Wuxi / 杭州 無錫
August 26th, 2007
flickr set: Eastern China Trip >Day 2: Hangzhou and Wuxi
If I were a Pixar Movie, I’d be A Bug’s Life
August 24th, 2007
You are an independent person, and you stand by what you believe in. You have an innovative nature. You have a lot of confidence in yourself and you have a lot of qualities that make you a great leader.
- from a facebook app called “Personality”.
Pictures: Ngong Ping 360
August 11th, 2007
Over the next little while, I will start sharing my pictures from my Asia Trip. The first in line is the pictures I got from my day at Ngong Ping 360. One big point to note is that this cable car is currently not operating after one of the cable cars actually DROPPED to ground during its daily maintenance test in June (which was roughly a month after I rode the cable car).
The cable car seemed to be reliable – after all it’s still fairly new. Beside the safety issue, Ngong Ping is a pretty place to visit. It’s totally different from the lively city of Hong Kong I normally see.
Flickr Set: Ngong Ping 360
Still an ISTJ
August 9th, 2007
I did the “What’s Your Personality Type” test again today. At first I didn’t remember I already did it once before, after I got the results – I noticed the results looked very familiar. As a matter of fact, I already posted it here once before – quite funny! Ok, I didn’t change much over the past 4 months then: I am still an ISTJ.