It’s all the bag’s fault :P
It’s not fully done but I don’t have any more floppy disks. The idea came from here. I need smaller fasteners (what exactly do you call those things? :P) or need to drill bigger holes or just do it the way as instructed in the original article :P. For the rest of tonight fingers shall rest.
Month: November 2006
Time… is what I don’t have the luxury of
Day by day I have things I want to do.
Day by day there are things that confront me be to done.
I don’t have nearly as much time for myself as I think I need. I believe this is just a test for me. I remember sharing one time in cell back in Singapore that time was one thing I treasure, well at least time that’s within my grasp that I can ‘control’ so to put it, i.e. being in control of my time. And these days with more pressing things to do I find less and less time for myself. Less and less time for me to do my own thing, to just wind down and relax. What do I do when I’m not in control of my time? Certainly not what I should be doing…
Lord God take control of my time and my life. As I was reminded this weekend that everything that I do is for You. All my time is not my time but Your time. Lord give me the strength especially then things are difficult when I don’t see much encouragement. Encourage me Lord to serve Your purpose for me.
Make me what You want me to be
Teach me Your ways
I lay down my life for You.
Throw down my crowns before You.
Give up my all for Your Name.
My Saviour, how I adore You.
Healer, my heart longs for You.
Jesus, You’re worthy to be praised.
TestDisk rocks
While trying to install a fresh copy of Windows yesterday I noticed something odd. My 80GB hard drive where I keep practially ALL my data was showing something like 30GB which was disconcerting but I went ahead and installed XP on another partition. After the first part of the XP install the computer reboots and I got a check disk warning due to possible filesystem inconsistencies so I let it do the checking and it was having alot of problems. In fact it took more than 12 hours to finish running the check!!! So finally let XP finish installing then I checked my hard drive listing and found my 80GB hard drive which was originally formatted as one big NTFS partition was now a divided into a FAT32 partition and an unallocated partition. Obviously no data could be read from the drive.
So I stuck in RIPLinux (Recovery Is Possible, NOT Rest In Peace :P which was the first thought that came to mind when I first saw the name) and started TestDisk. It found the partition information from the backup sector and restored the partition and now it seems to be perfect =D Hooray for linux and hooray for free and open source software. The only reason I did this straight away was because I was trying to recover another hard drive (my old laptop’s 30GB hard drive) that seemed to just have it’s partition disappear. Sad to say that I still can’t recover that drive. Tried using TestDisk to restore the partition and PhotoRec to restore the file I want but still can’t seem to get it =( PhotoRec is a nice file recovery tool but it does not show you the files it can recover before hand, it just does a bulk recovery which is something I hope they work on in future versions. Even after a few changes I did to the drive from TestDisk data recovery was still no where to be found. For what it’s worth NTFS Recovery from DiskInternals was able to find the lost files (before I made any changes to the drive) but the free demo does not allow you to recover/save the file. And I’m not willing to pay $99.95 (US$ should be) to purchase the program nor am I willing to find a crack for the program because that would just be ethically wrong =p So as the drive lays here on my table I shall wait patiently until the day I want to take some more of my time to try to recover that 1 particular file I want, though I could go back to Singapore and borrow the DVD from a friend and rip it again but I’m just lazy and also I want to find out more of any other free data recovery software and see it work wonders like TestDisk did for my other drive.
Thank you and sorry
Thank you guys for the song guys. Well appreciated it. Was kind of expecting it but still was quite speechless after that. Sorry for making you guys wait so long before your performance but the service was a wee bit longer than normal. And just to let you guys know I was incidentally wearing my present you guys gave to me last year. It didn’t even come to mind until I was like half way through the day at church. I remember the day so well when it was given to me. “Fishball” was the event at Jo’s http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543/Tavern on the day I was “sabo’ed” (Singlish for sabotaged) to dance like a chicken, sing like Mickey mouse and get myself creamed (whipped cream of course). We watched Finding Nemo and it reminded me of these
Hmmmm memories. As I turned 24 and celebrated my time of getting older in my new church and new friends, I was reminded of my old church and friends of 1 year ago. And I just wonder where I’ll be a year from now. Could be back in Singapore, could be still here in Brunei but at the end of the day as long as God is with me I’ll be happy.
Saviour
He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered grave
Jesus conquered grave
Shine your light and
Let the whole world see
We’re singing for the glory of the risen King
Jesus, shine your light and
Let the whole world see
We’re singing for the glory of the risen King
Tripod did it again
A my files just disappeared a few weeks ago. No notice or anything.. just poof. At least the database was still there and I did have a copy of some of the file I changed for my theme so all’s not lost but alas cant be used here.. Did lose a few images but no biggie. So it took me something this big to get me to move away from tripod. I’m lazy what can I say :P Life goes on…
Made the jump to wordpress. I learning to simplify and compromise. I want access to all my data but I want easy and reliable hosts. Was thinking of hosting it on another free host (110mb.com in fact, which was a fast responsive host in terms of the connection) but I got lazy and wanted to focus more on other things rather than taking care of security issues with upgrading wordpress version and stuff. Didn’t want to go through that hassle. So now I’m on wordpress and a few of the tools I needed to migrate my data are
WordPress-to-WordPress Import: for posts and comments
links2opml.php: for links
Both worked like a charm and hope it helps those who do need them
‘Busy’ life
You know, one of the good things I thought I would have when I came back home was a more laid back life. But as it is almost nearing the 3 month mark since I’ve been back I’ve learned that that is not true. Life is what we make it be it being busy with work, errands, responsibilities, commitments, etc. Just remember that in the busyness there is can be no hurriedness especially when seeking the Lord. Then it comes down to discipline which I lack. But day by day I hope to be more like Him. Less of me, more of Him. Amen
The Wheat Field 