A Mind of My Own

I’ve had my share of searching for my web host until I settled on Dreamhost. With Bluehost, Host Gator, and many other choices out there, I was in a maze. With so many features and services provided by the hosts, I was totally lost. How to find the best web hosting company?

First, I had to check out the software that I wanted to use, Wordpress, what else? Next, the requirements for using it; MySQL, PHP and FTP. In addition, I like my site to be up 99.99% of the time. There’s always a down time for the servers to be maintained. Customer support is also an important factor. Finally, I needed to estimate my budget and the amount I was willing to pay.

After looking at feedback from forums and blogs, I chose what I felt was the best web hosting company. This sort of research took me some time as I wanted to be sure that the money spent was worth.

JC has an iPhone. While it didn’t appeal to me at first due to the exorbitant cost, I was rather impressed with its features after playing with it. There is a programme to check for the first and last bus, GPS, Safari for surfing the net, multi-touch, widgets, maps and many other functions.

Now that the price has dropped, I’m thinking if I should get it instead of Sony Ericsson  X1. Sounds tempting. There’s also the wide selection of iPhone wallpapers for iPhone users too.  Not that wallpapers don’t exists for other models. Just that a typical iPhone wallpaper is just more visible than others.

For those geeks, you would like iPhone mods. You can install applications that you like and hold such a sleek iPhone in your hands. Games, jokes, quizzes, RSS news feeds, you name it, you got it. For those who are always on the road, you can get weather reports and road conditions.

I’m starting to drool to get my hands on an iPhone. Besides, the size is the same as my Dopod 838 Pro with a thinner width and cool interface. The sleek black design and the function to store photos so that I can show them off do sound good to me. That way, I can show off photos of me and DD.

Oh, the idea of listening to songs while my long train ride to work does appeal to me too. I should include it in my list of mobile phones to replace my Dopod.

As opposed to Sicarii’s hypothesis that only “popular” bloggers are being read, I shall post some links here that I read because of the catchy title and the partial text that is available.

• Do you have Transformers toys? Those that transform into jets, cars, beasts, and other things? Nike has them transform into Nike shoes and when they transform, they are still wearing Nike shoes!
• Have you said something nice today? It’s always heart warming to hear someone say, “Hey, forget that you said the wrong thing. Your presentation slides were well thought out.”
• I haven’t been reading for quite some time, these books that transform into mirrors may just be it but they are expensive though.
• Seems like there are new ways to cheat in exams. No wonder the exam rooms are no longer in lecture halls.
• If you don’t have a letter opener, this bunny will help you.
• I didn’t know that the use of a handkerchief and tissue can start a debate. Old post but interesting thoughts on it.
• For free and open source software, try here.

Seems that Falungong is getting agressive. They have started on calling our mobile to gather feelings for them. Yep, I have started to gather my feelings, mostly, negative. The more aggressive you are, the more I want to stay far, far away from ya. So, stay away, ok?

 Irritated with the constant harping about victims being totured. The solution is to hang up. There is no caller ID because they are using Skype and other VOIP to contact us. I sure hope there will be one day we are able to block individual calls as in how we are filtering spam by email. Not very effective but it’s a start.

I walked around the booths in Suntec on a weekday. It was still very crowded. I guess a number of people have taken leave to get the bargains on the 1st day. I was really tempted on buying the Lenovo Y300 for $1,999. It’s a 13.3″ laptop with 1GB of RAM and 120GB of hard disk space. So cool! It’s a major difference from my current laptop of 40GB of hard disk space and 512MB of RAM. However, I must be crazy to buy it now because my brother will be buying a laptop from poly if he were to study next year. It would be a waste to have an extra laptop around the house.

I hate the crowds that jam the walkways so, this year, I decided to elbow my way out without apologies. Don’t block my way because the walkways are wide, you don’t stop in the middle and use up all the space just to admire that wondrous XBox 360, ok. In fact, elbowing my way through the throng was a lot more effective that waiting for the people in front to move or the oncoming crowd to let you through because they won’t let you through. They want to get through you first. Yea, try phasing through me like the X-Men. Then I’ll probably let ya through, k?

I didn’t buy a thing though. I did consider buying a 4GB thumb drive or a 2GB thumb drive though. Looking around does make me feel impulsive to buy a laptop. I’m always craving for better laptops. If I were to get a new one, it’ll be my 2nd laptop. I wonder how many I will buy in future. I shudder to foresee.

Check out this guy’s emoticons for his friends! You can email him to make for you too. Wonder if I want my own set too. Let me think about it.

I had once thought of buying Creative due to its FM radio recording functions. It seems that I no longer have the need to buy it because the new firmware does not have the function. Why would that function be removed?

Is it used to combat piracy? I guess so. I bet it’s removed because of the slow sales of music CDs. Such function is considered illegal. So, what is legal nowadays? Maybe music is easier to transfer via online than videos. So, the fight is just between the music recorders and buying music CDs for now. Once the speed is up for downloads, vidoes would be the next fight, I guess.

I feel cheated, this Dopod 838Pro has been in use for at least 3 months! How can tell me only for 1 month? It’s a major difference ok! Sure, it’s not registered but how do I know that it’s the truth? How did I find out even when I had just done a reset, you may ask, well, photos stored are not formatted when I do a soft reset. It’s a reinstall of the default software only.

I checked the photos that the previous owner had taken and they showed September 2006! GAH! Kena CHEATED! I haven’t got my full set yet! I want the charger, pouch and other things that are supposed to be with the whole set. If not, I will sue you!

Apparently, I’m in a dark mood today, even after I’ve changed my SIM card to 3G and video calls are now enabled. ARR! Now have to upgrade the ROM before I start to analyse how to personalise my ringtones and message tone, no shoot the message tone, it’ll do for now.

I w-a-n-t m-y w-h-o-l-e s-e-t i-n-t-a-c-t! You get it?!