WOAH! Where'd my month go?!
Holy smokes!
Errr... my review of Batman Begins, coming soon.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Thinking About Yams... mmmm
From Psalm 127:
"Unless the LORD builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for he gives to his beloved sleep."
From Psalm 127:
"Unless the LORD builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for he gives to his beloved sleep."
Monday, June 06, 2005
Phew!
I haven't had much time lately to think up stuff to write here, but I guess I oughta say something since I just found a little breathing room and I don't feel like collapsing in bed. Firstly, I've been working on putting stuff up at a little web domain I bought a couple of months back. I'm currently focused on rebuilding the Blog Of Doom using PHP and mySQL. Why? Because I want to, dangit! I also want to know I can, if that makes any sense. It might be worth mentioning in my resume too, some day :D. The stuff there isn't quite ready yet, so I'll hold off telling people the addy til later. Most of you who read this blog know already anyways :p.
What's going to happen to *this* blog in the meanwhile? Well I'm going to see if there's a way to export everything that's in the archives (hopefully they'll spit out a giant xml file or something for me), but if there isn't, then I guess I'll leave it here for posterity, with a helpful link to my new blog as the final entry.
I'm also going to learn a bit of .NET soon, I think, once I'm done with getting the blog off the ground. I'm helping Jason with his business website and he wants it done with ASP.NET. I might be working with C# somewhere down the line, so there's no harm getting some exposure to the .NET framework. He asures me ASP.NET is easy, and since I got a bunch of queries set up to create databases in mysql already, it should n't take too long to get that website going.
Does anyone out there know what ".NET" actually means?
I haven't had much time lately to think up stuff to write here, but I guess I oughta say something since I just found a little breathing room and I don't feel like collapsing in bed. Firstly, I've been working on putting stuff up at a little web domain I bought a couple of months back. I'm currently focused on rebuilding the Blog Of Doom using PHP and mySQL. Why? Because I want to, dangit! I also want to know I can, if that makes any sense. It might be worth mentioning in my resume too, some day :D. The stuff there isn't quite ready yet, so I'll hold off telling people the addy til later. Most of you who read this blog know already anyways :p.
What's going to happen to *this* blog in the meanwhile? Well I'm going to see if there's a way to export everything that's in the archives (hopefully they'll spit out a giant xml file or something for me), but if there isn't, then I guess I'll leave it here for posterity, with a helpful link to my new blog as the final entry.
I'm also going to learn a bit of .NET soon, I think, once I'm done with getting the blog off the ground. I'm helping Jason with his business website and he wants it done with ASP.NET. I might be working with C# somewhere down the line, so there's no harm getting some exposure to the .NET framework. He asures me ASP.NET is easy, and since I got a bunch of queries set up to create databases in mysql already, it should n't take too long to get that website going.
Does anyone out there know what ".NET" actually means?
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Revenge Of The Sith: My Two Cents
WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS
The Good
1. Artoo Kicks Butt: The first 15 minutes of the movie seemed more like Attack Of The Astromech Droid. I wished he had a little more to do throughout the whole movie, but since the movie is supposed to be tragic, it's just as well he didn't. Why didn't they come up with this stuff for Episodes I and II?
2. Jar-jar Does Nothing: ...Aside from looking really bummed at the end. I don't think they even gave him any lines to say. I kinda wondered why Ahmed Best was in the credits.
3. Ani And Obiwan Settle Their Differences: This battle makes their final duel in A New Hope look like a pillow fight. I just wished I had a joypad.
4. Darth Vader Shows Up: Hey! I know that dude!
The Bad
1. Chewie Does Nothing: Really. The few times I saw him, he was either getting ignored or Yoda was saying bye to him. Is this Star Wars or Intergalactic Celebrity Cameo Night?
2. Ani Turns To The Dark Side: I don't mean bad as in he turns, but bad as in the moment he turns seemed a little off. He goes from asking himself "What have I done???" to telling Darth Sidious "Ok boss, anything you say boss" in like five seconds. The reasons for turning were there, and the setup was adequate, I thought, but the payoff wasn't as satisfying as I'd hoped.
3. General Grievous: Ok he wasn't BAD, just blatantly suited to be mass produced and placed on toy shelves. Aside from that, he's a superficial distraction. He does give Obiwan an excuse to say a really good line: "*SO* uncivilized".
The Ugly
1. Coruscant 90210: Ani: "You look so beautiful" Padme: "That's because I'm in love!" Ani: "No it's cause I'm in love!" Me: "I'm so embarrased to be sitting here."
2. Darth Vader's final "NOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOooooooo": Ok it's more Funny than Ugly. But there'a no 'The Funny' category... so there.
3. Star Wars Gets Political: I mean that in two ways. First, anytime Yoda says the words "Trade federation", "Republic", or "Separatist", some of the mystique of the character vanishes. It just does. Putting these kinds of words in his mouth was detrimental to the character in the first two prequels and that trend continues here. Secondly, a lot of folks on the net think George was making a political statement about a certain war in a galaxy not so far away. Not too sure if that's true, but if it is, Star Wars is a poor podium to speak from... after all, what does "escapist" mean?
WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS
The Good
1. Artoo Kicks Butt: The first 15 minutes of the movie seemed more like Attack Of The Astromech Droid. I wished he had a little more to do throughout the whole movie, but since the movie is supposed to be tragic, it's just as well he didn't. Why didn't they come up with this stuff for Episodes I and II?
2. Jar-jar Does Nothing: ...Aside from looking really bummed at the end. I don't think they even gave him any lines to say. I kinda wondered why Ahmed Best was in the credits.
3. Ani And Obiwan Settle Their Differences: This battle makes their final duel in A New Hope look like a pillow fight. I just wished I had a joypad.
4. Darth Vader Shows Up: Hey! I know that dude!
The Bad
1. Chewie Does Nothing: Really. The few times I saw him, he was either getting ignored or Yoda was saying bye to him. Is this Star Wars or Intergalactic Celebrity Cameo Night?
2. Ani Turns To The Dark Side: I don't mean bad as in he turns, but bad as in the moment he turns seemed a little off. He goes from asking himself "What have I done???" to telling Darth Sidious "Ok boss, anything you say boss" in like five seconds. The reasons for turning were there, and the setup was adequate, I thought, but the payoff wasn't as satisfying as I'd hoped.
3. General Grievous: Ok he wasn't BAD, just blatantly suited to be mass produced and placed on toy shelves. Aside from that, he's a superficial distraction. He does give Obiwan an excuse to say a really good line: "*SO* uncivilized".
The Ugly
1. Coruscant 90210: Ani: "You look so beautiful" Padme: "That's because I'm in love!" Ani: "No it's cause I'm in love!" Me: "I'm so embarrased to be sitting here."
2. Darth Vader's final "NOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOooooooo": Ok it's more Funny than Ugly. But there'a no 'The Funny' category... so there.
3. Star Wars Gets Political: I mean that in two ways. First, anytime Yoda says the words "Trade federation", "Republic", or "Separatist", some of the mystique of the character vanishes. It just does. Putting these kinds of words in his mouth was detrimental to the character in the first two prequels and that trend continues here. Secondly, a lot of folks on the net think George was making a political statement about a certain war in a galaxy not so far away. Not too sure if that's true, but if it is, Star Wars is a poor podium to speak from... after all, what does "escapist" mean?
Monday, May 16, 2005
Why Christians Hate Pink
"... Thus, the double charges of the secularists, though throwing nothing but darkness and confusion on themselves, throw a real light on the faith. It is true that the historic Church has at once emphasised celibacy and emphasised the family; has at once (if one may put it so) been fiercely for having children and fiercely for not having children. It has kept them side by side like two strong colours, red and white, like the red and white upon the shield of St. George. It has always had a healthy hatred of pink. It hates that combination of two colours which is the feeble expedient of the philosophers. It hates that evolution of black into white which is tantamount to a dirty gray. In fact, the whole theory of the Church on virginity might be symbolized in the statement that white is a colour: not merely the absence of a colour. All that I am urging here can be expressed by saying that Christianity sought in most of these cases to keep two colours coexistent but pure. It is not a mixture like russet or purple; it is rather like a shot silk, for a shot silk is always at right angles, and is in the pattern of the cross."
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"... Thus, the double charges of the secularists, though throwing nothing but darkness and confusion on themselves, throw a real light on the faith. It is true that the historic Church has at once emphasised celibacy and emphasised the family; has at once (if one may put it so) been fiercely for having children and fiercely for not having children. It has kept them side by side like two strong colours, red and white, like the red and white upon the shield of St. George. It has always had a healthy hatred of pink. It hates that combination of two colours which is the feeble expedient of the philosophers. It hates that evolution of black into white which is tantamount to a dirty gray. In fact, the whole theory of the Church on virginity might be symbolized in the statement that white is a colour: not merely the absence of a colour. All that I am urging here can be expressed by saying that Christianity sought in most of these cases to keep two colours coexistent but pure. It is not a mixture like russet or purple; it is rather like a shot silk, for a shot silk is always at right angles, and is in the pattern of the cross."
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Monday, April 25, 2005
From The Ethics Of Elfland
"WHEN the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is." Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy. But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals."
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"WHEN the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is." Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy. But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals."
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Monday, April 18, 2005
Death and...
I was looking through the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia's website today, and I found this under 'Types Of Income Chargeable To Tax':
(i) Gains or profits from a business for whatever period of time carried on.
(ii) Gains or profits from an employment.
(iii) Dividends, Interests or Discounts.
(iv) Rents, Royalties or Premiums.
(v) Pensions, annuities or other periodical payments not falling under any of the foregoing paragraphs.
(vi) Gains or profits not falling under any of the foregoing paragraphs.
(vii) Special classes of income.
Upon reading vi and vii, I just had to wonder...
Why did they bother listing i, ii, iii, iv, and v at all?
I was looking through the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia's website today, and I found this under 'Types Of Income Chargeable To Tax':
(i) Gains or profits from a business for whatever period of time carried on.
(ii) Gains or profits from an employment.
(iii) Dividends, Interests or Discounts.
(iv) Rents, Royalties or Premiums.
(v) Pensions, annuities or other periodical payments not falling under any of the foregoing paragraphs.
(vi) Gains or profits not falling under any of the foregoing paragraphs.
(vii) Special classes of income.
Upon reading vi and vii, I just had to wonder...
Why did they bother listing i, ii, iii, iv, and v at all?
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