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Sharlinie and Black Magic

January 23rd, 2008

Read about this super interesting post here. My first reaction upon reading just the first paragraph: WTF. Why so much publicity on hiring bomoh to find the poor gal? And worst, 50 of them?! You can say i am heartless as they were trying all their mights, but this is really getting overboard. You know what, i seriously suspect there is consipracy behind this. Some political parties could have paid for this at the back. Why? Election is near mah. Why there isn’t such big thing for Nurin before? Why now?

The bomohs predicted that she will return in 1 week. I really like to see theirs and public reaction if it doesn’t come true. If they are so good, why cant they determine the exact location?! When the power combine, they are Captain Bomoh mah. They could even say there are 3 kidnappers whom used black magic to trap her. WTF again?! Black magic and kidnap? So what now, we should all learn some of the arts so we can fight back when necessary. And from this statement, shouldn’t the police be searching all bomohs in Malaysia (since they know black magic)?

Not that i am pessimistic about Sharlinie safety but not this method alright. Even if you do, keep it low. Headline man, what is the paper thinking? Is Malaysia really that boring till we need to use such news for headline?

Begin Invoke..End Invoke

January 21st, 2008

First post in the category :D This group is mainly to share coding stuff that is out of layman term. If you are not programmer, stay away at all cost! :P

Found this very easy to read yet informative post on Asynchronous Method Invocation. I admit that what i know about .NET is merely the tiny tip of what the iceberg can offer. Oh hell, life is long and learning is life long, ain’t it? :)

Here’s a summary of what i learnt:

  • MethodInvoke - built in delegate in .NET that allow you to call a method that takes in no parameter
  • BeginInvoke - execute the target function and return to caller instantly
  • ThreadPool in .NET has a limit of 25. Avoid ’starving’ the pool else be fined by performance loss
  • EndInvoke - return proper values/parameters from the previous function call
  • IAsyncResult - log of all datas (exceptions, return value, output parameters, etc) after execution is completed
  • AsyncCallBack - used when you don’t wish to wait for completion of the execution (that’s the purpose of asynchronous call bah)
  • Command Pattern (ICommand interface) - rather than BeginInvoke, EndInvoke, CallBack everywhere in your Main(), apply this pattern to group calls together.

That’s all folks. I might not have explained everything properly, so best for you to read it yourself.

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I am on Facebook

January 21st, 2008

You would be saying, “What? You are so out man! We’ve been fooling around in there for ages”. Alright alright, i know i am slow. The main reason that i registered for it was to view photos from my ex-colleagues. Only after i logged in, i found tonnes of my friends in there (who weren’t active in such portal before).

Frankly, i don’t like Facebook much, except that it is responsive and hell lots of friends are in there. They have too much of those ‘applications’ which complicate the whole thing. Whenever i browse profiles, i am only interested in the top section, where the biodata and photos links are. I still prefer Friendster style where things are kept to simplest form. Oh maybe i am not into ’socializing through the web’ now, so i don’t see the usefulness of those goodies.

Anyway, if you want to, you can find me in there with email digital.ric@gmail.com. Happy Facebook-ing! :D

20080119 Today’s Photo

January 19th, 2008

Dad and Mum at Rose Valley of Cameron Highland.

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20080117 Today’s Photo

January 17th, 2008

Taiping lake. Merely up the contrast ridiculously to make it look like that.

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Do our bit!

January 16th, 2008

Inspired by Blacksnail on her effort to start reducing waste (http://blacksnail.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/save-the-world-chapter-1-reduce/), i started a page to keep track of how am i doing in the same. If each of us can do the little bit (which doesn’t even need 0.01% of your daily effort), the world will be a better place to live in. Well, that’s if keeping politics and war aside :D

Support by visiting this page, and let’s help to keep earth the way it is!

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Kungfu Dunk - Expected Dung

January 15th, 2008

If you don’t know what dung means, it basically means sh-it. When i first heard of the name, the reaction was WTF. When i first saw the trailer, i almost puked. When i first saw the advertisement, i had nothing more to say. Come on, you wanna ride on the wave of Shaolin Soccer? I doubt it can, 1001%. If the movie is about the original Slam Dunk, then at least i will have the tendency to watch.

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Hello 2oo8!

January 9th, 2008

Yes, this is totally new. Too lazy to move the old one over. Ah, actually nothing much to move too except a few miserable posts on my photos. Oh well, new year new blog. Let’s hope this year i can keep this place more alive with whatever materials i have.

So stay with me!