Resepi Rahsia - just opened in UMMC

Scrounching around for lunch well past the time ad there was no food to be found at the usual joint. Decided to sample the new shop opened on the Ground Floor to replace Delifrance. Unfortunately the kitchen was not in order. We went to the Kopitiam at Trauma Centre instead.

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I got the feeling that today's gonna be a great day!

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Juicy changes

091024.05, originally uploaded by Haris Abdul Rahman.

As you probably noticed that there have been plenty of changes on the layout and content of the blog in the last months. I have started using microblogging tools to update the blog mainly by using my mobile phones. The scheme were also changed and appear more streamline. The last project I embarked on was updating the commenting system.

Unfortunately there have been drawbacks. Even though I was able to see the the comments made, since injecting some root code to enable the Disqus system, I was not able to reintegrate them back into the blog. I can only do so by disabling it, and that will defeat the purpose of the update.

I was also toying with the idea of possibly putting the uploaded photos into a separate stream. However, they might be too far away from the main content as my main idea idea is to have a weblog. I will from now on post interesting links I came across into the 'Impulse Link' thread, while any writing that are themed into certain ideas, such as football, tech and photography will be posted into the 'Themed Post' stream.

As for the comments, I will write onto the relevent entries but the initial comment written prior to the code injection will not appear on the page.

The Windows 7 and Vaio X

I can't help but the admire the effort of Sony with the release of the new Vaio X ultraportable laptop series. They look damn sexy and all, and the specs weren't bad either. Still using the Intel Atom processor to save power and prolong battery life, they were clocked at 2MHz, runs 2GB RAM while using SSD hard drives as standard. I can imagine it whizzing through the usual web browsing at light speed. The performance with Windows 7 with it reduced demand on resources in the background will complement the unit nicely.

Always, the issue of vulnerability to viruses will be there and for that I am very reluctant to depend on them to hold my sensitive data - patient details, research data and even my collections of downloaded journal articles and presentations I have prepared over the years. I came to rely too much on my Mac. However, occasionally there are some software issues with the Mac especially when it comes to SPSS. I currently do not have a license on the Mac, and had to use VirtualBox to run Windows 7 on my Mac in order to do the number crunching. A spare Windows machine would not hurt I am sure, but I already have desktops on my office desk running Windows. Do I need another laptop ... be it a sexy one.

I think I'm going to go for a compromise. I might buy Anita the laptop. Therefore, I can still play around with the toy occasionally ... if she ever let me.

First to arrive!

I was going hypo all morning and had to grab a quick coffee at the end. Unfortunately all the places are already sold out and I decided to have an early lunch instead. Myself and Edmund walked across to Pak Abu's at Sixth College.

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