When…

1. You have to do stuff that is not even in your area of expertise
2. You have to deal with unreasonable people
3. Everyone wants you to do everything for them, even when the matter could be resolved easily on their side
4. You have to stay back even though there is nothing to do (they tend to complain to your manager)
5. You are consulted for every little small detail
6. You have to take the heat for the mistake that you didn’t do
7. You’re tired of looking at the same shit you’ve been doing for the past 5 years
8. People start asking you impossible and illogical question/queries
9. You finally saw the bigger picture in your life
10. Your boss suck, even though he’s a very nice guy

“Dude, we have an escalation.”

“What’s her name?”

“Audrey Hepburn.”

“….”

“What’s wrong?”

“Are you serious?”

“Why?”

“Do you know who’s Audrey Hepburn?”

“Should I?”

Kids. They never know the iconic fashion model in the 50s and 60s.

p/s: The customer’s name is indeed Audrey Hepburn but she is not The Audrey Hepburn. Just some Australian woman that screws up her own operating system and want us to fix it for her. For free.

It’s been a while since Google Chrome been out on the street and I dare to say that they rocked. Everything loads fast and I especially love the way they handle each and every webpage.

Now comes the bad part. As much as I love Chrome, I just wish they would let us have some limited plugin function. One thing that I really missed from Firefox was Foxmark. I’ve got two computers, one for work and the other for games. I would really like to sync all my webpages between them without having to remove and reimport the bookmarks via Firefox.

Another thing I realized about Chrome is that they suck more juice out of my battery compared to Firefox. Chrome has a sandbox design whereby each tab has an independent operation while Firefox, shared plugin such as Flash and Java run across all the tabs. Here’s what I experimented with:

Specification: Dell Latitude D630 with Windows Vista Enterprise & Intel 4965 802.11g
Website Visited: Gmail, Wowinsider, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Sankakucomplex, & Reallycuteasians.net
Action: I just click around the pages, checking and reading text, sometimes clicking on the picture for magnification.

Firefox: 2 hour 34 min
Chrome: 1 hour 59 min

I decided another test.

Firefox: 2 hour 15 min
Chrome: 1 hour 55 min

Pretty conclusively shown that Chrome’s sandbox feature of containing each tab to its own operation yields a more stable environment but somehow it wasn’t helpful especially if you want to squeeze out as much battery power from your notebook as much as possible.

So in conclusion, Chome may be pretty but it is more suited for desktops while Firefox is great for stay as long as possible with the limited battery power on your notebook.

Anybody heard of audio books before? They’re basically a narration based on the book. For example, you love Michael Crichton’s Next and you’re lazy to read. So what you do? You get the audio book – where they read the whole book’s content for you.

I know it’s kind of funky but I can see only two advantages. You can listen to story books while you’re doing something else (like wanking). Second, you don’t have any hands to pick up the book. Then again if you don’t have the hand, how are you going to activate the computer?

I’ve got Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything and I find listening to it can be pretty tedious. I rather have a book to read when I’m doing my daily business in the toilet.

Once in a while, you will arrive at a crossroad which you don’t know where to turn. This happens primarily when something tragic happened to you and you tend get confused.

I learned the hard way that doing the right thing sometimes isn’t doing the right thing.

I was involved in a project where I was writing some PHP for the front end compression code my friend was working on. Here’s the theory, what if you can use SQL database to ‘compress’ the data and expand it on client side? I’m not a library file writer nor do I have any idea how this really works but it supposedly to run as one of your Windows service.

It happened when my friend released this as free software in the community. We know that someone would just rip our code and claim it for their own. We’re cool with that because this is the foundation of free software.

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