Posted by shiera on Aug-30-2008
I’ve been absent from blogging world these past few days. I didn’t have time to watch my favorite animes because my hands were full (and still is) configuring a Joomla-powered website. Joomla is way more difficult to configure than Wordpress but it’s really good. Enough of geeky stuffs…
I was on my way home yesterday when my flatmate called. I was a bit alarmed when she told me that there was a fire in our apartment building! But I calmed down when she said that she couldn’t see smoke coming out. I rushed home and still saw the building surrounded with firetrucks and firemen. Maybe it was just a false alarm, or was it because the firemen were too quick to respond to the emergency? With our limited Japanese, we couldn’t ask anybody about it, so until now, it remains a mystery. 
Posted by shiera on Aug-6-2008
My first flash drive was only 128MB. That was more than five years ago, and it cost a lot! I think it cost me more than US$25. Now, flash drives and the rest of the electronic gadgets are getting smaller, better, and cheaper. I was in the supermarket a few days ago and there’s a heap of 1GB flash drives. They’re selling it for about US$9 each! Adding a little more amount, you could get yourself a 2GB MP3 player, which you could also use for other data storage purposes. I got one myself a few months ago, but I’m thinking of buying a flash drive. I don’t want to mix any data with my MP3 files. Besides, I’ve used up most of MP3 player’s 2GB. Maybe a few months from now, those 1GB would go down to US$5… I hope!
But I do hope food prices will also go down together with the electronics!
Posted by shiera on Feb-5-2008
I always open tons of applications simultaneously in my computer. One time, it was annoyingly, horribly slow that I decided to hit Window’s “hottest key combination”, the Ctrl-Alt-Del… or so I thought. When I looked at my screen, I panicked to see this:
I mistakenly hit the Ctrl+Alt and the left arrow key. If your laptop’s a Dell Inspiron 1300, try that.. it’s pretty cool. I’m not sure though if the same works for other laptops.
Thanks to my flatmate, Jet. If not for her, I’d have went to work with a stiff neck and a still lop-sided display.
The solution: Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow Key
Posted by shiera on May-9-2007
This must be one of my rare geeky postings. ^-^ I came across this C code somewhere:
It looks like garbage to me and I agree, it violates many coding standards (I only know so few, though) but the code above is definitely a legal C code. I was even more surprised to see the output. I started to at least make the code readable but my head started to spin. Well, maybe I am not geeky enough yet because I haven’t tried the code out and did not try to decipher how in the world did it produce such output. But… how come the output’s like that?
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