Getting nostalgic with the old good TV program for geeks like me
It all started from this slashdot article.
From there it got me to
systm.org and revisiting
thebroken
CFH tracker
this WEEK in TECH (twit :P)
Listening to the podcast now. Ahhh reminds me of the good old days of techTV.

And last I saw I had 6 people bidding for the same project as their 1st choice :'(:'(
Hope and pray I get the FYP I want so life will be at least fun next year :D
Lecturer censored in Spanish University (UPV) for defending P2P networks: Now thats basic stupid censorship if you ask me. P2P just one of those good applications used for the wrong things (well mostly for the wrong things) currently at least.

Got some hardware for 1 of my projects so now I have to connect it up and play around with it and program the board and hopefully it works and I can go home in peace, or I just take the board with me back to Brunei and leave the other stuff with my other project mates :P

And just came across a few interesting links
The Evolution of the PDA: Something for me to read when I have the time and when I’m not lazy to read :P
$100 Linux laptop to help world’s poor: Get this done and you have completed an NUS FYP topic :P
A Pistol Mouse for Your Fragging Pleasure: Point click and shoot but I’m sticking to my mouse anyday

Today have to go back to school. Will program my PICs :D Got free samples from Microchip and will just program them with the software used for my EE2001 project so I can get my remote controlled car to work :D
Then meeting at school, 1830 @ PGP canteen. Whoops forgot to mention that I have to meet my UROP supervisor that I couldnt meet yesterday due to last minute exam marking matters in his part so another hour plus journey to NUS again, not to mention the hour plus journey back :(

Anyway off to read things on RFID for my UROP :p

Waiting for my UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) supervisor to come back to his office. Right now in IES clubroom. Nothing much to say just that I want another working 2.5″ hard drive to install Linux, my bro’s old HD that he gave to me seems to be konked out. Cant even reinstall Linux on it, well it makes funny noises when it is shaken.
Been playing a lot with Zhenyang since I’ve moved to his place for the time being. Serious Sam, 1st and 2nd encounter and Warcraft 3 basically. Set up ad-hoc wireless in his place with the wireless usb adaptor that I got at a Creative warehouse sale.
Stupid NUS OSA. First of all, the online appilcation says that I did not submit my application. After mailing and calling a person in charge at OSA, I was told there was some data loss. So I could have been 1 of the people involved. Its so stupid because it wasn’t even MENTION!!!!! And they say that they cant do anything for me now because all the rooms have been allocated…. wth
grrrr

First of all thanks to Gordon in his latest post =D=D Free games!!! yay!!!! =D
Looking at the games and reliving my old days gone by :(:)
A few (actually quite a lot :P) of games to mention:
Altered Beast: I remember playing this game on the Sega Genesis. So fun :P
Battle Chess for Windows: I believe I had this game for DOS on my old old old OLD computer which got ‘stoned’. I mean it. When we turned it on 1 day it say something along the lines of “This computer is stoned” :P Virus or what not it was an old computer that we got rid of.
Ironman: Dont be fooled by the name, the full name is Ironman Off Road!!!! Yea!! Off Road!!! I remember playing that in an arcade in Australia or somewhere!! Even have it on the Nintendo Gameboy =D Fun racing game =D
Lamborghini American Challenge: Had this game for the Super Nintendo. Not a great game but just thought it was worth mentioning as I remembered I had it :P I think I remember 1 race where I didnt hit any cars and I go a special bonus =D :P
Bubble Bobble: Ahhhh a classic. When I play this I want to be the GREEN dragon (at least I think its a dragon) :P
Castle Wolfenstein: hehehe just look at the graphics :P Never played the game but worth a mention.
Wolfenstein 3D: I played this on my sisters old laptop a P1 166MHz if I remember correctly. It was in black and white though, I think. Unless my memory fails me again, which I wouldnt be surprised though :P I’m growing old :P
Castlevania: Nintendo memories :)
Civilization 1: One for those Civilization fans ;-)
Civilization 2: I remember playing this on my P1 133MHz system. Pretty fun game except for the fact that it takes so long
Command & Conquer: Never played this though I’ve played the sequal and have the the later sequals. Think I’ll try it out 1 of these days :)
Cool Spot: The 7-up spot!!!!
Doom 2 – Hell on Earth: Now this is a game I have to play as well. Seeing how I’ve never played a Doom game or a Duke Nukem game to think of it
Double Dragon: Ahhh Billy and Jimmy where were we? :P Had this for the old computer I not sure which 1 because I forget :P
Double Dragon 3 – The Rosetta Stone: Me thinks me had this game for the Sega
Duck Tales: Scrooge McDuck!!! And his lucky lucky dime!!!! I want to swim in coins like he did :P
Dune | Dune 2: Never played them but wanted to and now I can =D
Earthworm Jim: Everybody’es favourite worm, aside from those in the Worms series by Team 17
Final Fantasy – Endless Nova: For thos FF fans out there
Ghostbusters 2: “Who you gonna call?”, GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!
Golden Axe: Had this on my old old computer as well :) Fun multiplayer game =D
Grand Theft Auto: The father of the GTA series. Actually I downloaded this game a long time ago from the producers but never got around to playing it :P
Lemmings | Lemmings 2 – The Tribes: The Lemmings are coming the Lemmings are coming!!! Well maybe more like falling… falling into the sea :P
Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring“: This game caught my eye especially since I have yet to watch the 3rd installment of the movie :P
MDK (Murder Death Kill): Having borrowed MDK2 from a friend I had to mention this.
Mechwarrior: I dont know why I always like Mechwarrior 2 eventhough I’ve never played it. I guess the game catches my eye especially with several installments of the game (at least 4 games right?)
Micro Machines: I had Micro Machine TOYS when I was little. I liked cars :P And racing games :P
Mortal Kombat | Mortal Kombat 2: A game that caught on more because of the blood than the gameplay I think. Sick sick children were the kids of my time :P But still fun in a way I guess :P I remember how they were showing off their ‘digitized’ graphics which I still dont really like, though I gave a unique feel to the game.
Operation Wolf: ahhhh I remember playing this in a arcade with those mounted guns :P
Pandemonium: I only really know this game because it was 1 of the games released on the Nokia N-gage (spelling?) and I played it a bit on the N-gage :P
Paperboy: 1 more of those games that I remember playin in the arcades. AAhhhhh memories. I also remember playing those water guns games at the arcade in Marina Square :P
Populous: This game only caught my eye because of the main screen. Looks like the Warcraft II main screen
Puzzle Bobble: Another arcade game which, I might add, many girls seem to be fond of.
Rampage: Its good to be big apes and climb buildings :P
Sim Farm | Sim Tower | SimCity 2000 | SimCity Classic: Games from the “Sims” franchise
Skate or Die | Ski or Die: I remember these games. Never played them but I liked the name of the games :P
Softporn Adventure: The thing that caught my eye is that this is a TEXT BASE game :P lol I shouldn’t be advertising porn here should I? :P But I found it funny anyway :P
Street Fighter 2: The mother of all fighting/beat-em-up games. AAhh the memories of trying to do a dragon punch and end up getting a raw hurting thumb :P
The Lost Vikings: The Vikings!!!!
The Smurfs: La la lalalala la lala lala. La la lalalala la lala lala =D
Wacky Wheels: Another fun racing game =D
Warcraft: The mother of all RTS (real-time strategy) games? Something I HAVE to play :P

Whoa now thats a long post. So many links :P Happy looking for free games =D And thanks again Gordon :P

** Updated at 14:26:58 on 2005/05/05 **
Went ice skating today!!!
1st time ever for me. I’ve rollerbladed before for like 5 minutes? Didnt make much progress there. All I can say is that the rail is my friend :P
But it was a good day. Went with my orientation group (Chee Wooi, Andrew, Shengfang, Weilin, Jing How and Jeff) that I was leading for CPE1 orientation 2004 and Ya Chee and Chinmay. I DIDN’T FALL!!!! YAY!!! I thought my butt would be suffering after skating but its still nice and fresh :P Had a few close calls though :P
I saw this nice book the other day. Read the warning and dedication :P I want that book haha
(Hope I don’t infringe any copyright laws :S If I do do tell me :P)
Anyway off to do some work for the meeting tomorrow.
Tomorrow off to Chinmay’s place for food muahahaha!!!:P:P

Edited
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Need to select an FYP (final year project) too. So many choices. So MANY!!!!
Just hope I get what I want ;-)
Off to work…

Exams been okay so far. Could have been better but what am I going to do?
The final 1 which HAS to be the WORST OF ALL!!!!
EE2011 Engineering Electromagnetics at 230pm. Weird timing at that.

Anyway time to enjoy later in 16 hours :P

Things to do
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1. Spend time with dear dear =D;-)
2. Project UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program)
3. Project Minty!!! :D
4. Project USB 2.0 Car!!! :D Spin off from my EE2001 project. Well more like my extra feature that didnt fully work and that I got to keep :D Need to remake the transmitter module and buy a few PICs and ask the lab people if I can borrow the programming and development board :P
5. Project Biogas :P Interpret that anyway you want haha
6. Project Redesign webpage
7. Project Use Linux
8. Project Network Programs for fun =D
9. Project GET FYP (final year projectt)!!!! Very vital for my survival and enjoyment for the rest of my NUS life :P
10. Go Sim Lim Square and Funan to enjoy some technology :p
11. Go Sim Lim Tower!!!! For project possibilities. So much FUN things in Sim Lim Tower now once you’ve done EE3208 you can actually look at the things there and decide what it can be used for =D
12. Replace Linksys router adapter for bro
13. Sims House Party budget expansion pack for bro and sis
14. Manga for bro
15. 7/11 dried cranberries for sis

AND other things that I cant really think of now :P

Go relax with some Quake pre-sleep time :P

** Updated at 19:24:14 on 2005/04/25 **
My first exam of the semester: EE3101 Digital Signal Processing. Not too bad. Maybe the ‘easiest’ of the 3 written exams I have. I should sleep early but I’m not sleepy though. Maybe its good that the exam is at 1pm. Wednesday is a 9am paper =| Don’t even remember the last time I was up at 9am :P

I should buy popcorn to eat. Craving more popcorn :P Only thinking of popcorn because of this. I’ve heard that you are not supposed to try to pop unpopped kernels. Anybody else heard of this?

Anyway play something to relax myself before sleep I guess. Got back to playing Quake III. Aaahhh the good old days.

Good luck for exams once again people!

** Updated at 18:24:54 on 2005/04/28 **
Studying EE2011 (just realised I typed 2012 instead of 2011!!!!! what the heck!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!) is a bore :”(
And heck I havent even really studied :'(
Just trying to do the cheat sheet for the entired afternoon till now :| And already I’m drained. Too much math. Too much crap.
So on to tutorials and past year papers. I really dont know how to get through this. Just utter crap.
Thats it. Shower then ice cream then work on bed :”(

On a side note. Nintendo Acapella: for those Nintendo fans out there :P Nice stuff.

****Edit****
The one million download challenge of Opera 8: Opera’s CEO will swim from Norway to the USA. hehe. In other words: 1 million downloads => CEO will swim from Norway to USA :P
You can help the cause here :P Download Opera 8: Windows | Linux i386 | FreeBSD i386 | Solaris Sparc | Mac (beta release)

Back to EM on bed…. :”(

Officially here. =D
Opera website been sluggish all day, so much so that they’ve put an alternative homepage to reduce bandwidth consumption to aid downloading :)
It’s kind of good to know that so many people are awaiting Opera 8 =D

Download it from Tucow’s

Another possibility due to the downloads could be this. However this is only for version 7, so I’m told. But its a good way to get people to start using Opera =D

Sidenote: Studying EE2011 Engineering Electromagnetics is soooooooooo bad :'( Boring mathematics and equation after equation after equation after EQUATION!!!!!!! I should go back to reading more of it :(
Tomorrow on to study EE4210 Computer Communication Networks II. And past year papers. Hope and pray I get it done :P