Bisdak Babbles

Being in software development has its ups and downs. It is really stressful when you have to complete a task in an unreasonably short time. It gets boring when you’re not allowed to access the internet and yet you’re still waiting for the next task. It’s very frustrating when you can’t figure out why a certain error, exception, or worse system crash occurs. But all these will be forgotten when you get the system working.

Why the “programmer drama”? A friend asked me to book a flight online and here’s what appeared after I filled up all the necessary details:

“UnhandledException, IndexOutOfRangeException”. These have haunted me from epson receipt printer application to web server-side application development. The developers of the Cebu Pacific website must be really busy and stressed right now.

One corny and nerdy thought came to mind. We now have medical drama in TV. Some are good (eg., House). I find some boring. But I wonder how one makes an IT-related drama? Will I enjoy the show?

I have mentioned a thousand times that I prefer winter over summer. Better yet, autumn! But there is one thing that I don’t like in cold temperature: static shock. I love wearing knitted clothes but wearing them means more static electricity for me. It constantly happens to me that I wish plastic knobs are used instead of the metal ones. But due to the recent changes that is happening, it seems that I won’t concern myself with static electricity anymore.

I thought that the transfer to the new company would give me more opportunity to blog.  But I was wrong.  Accessing my blog is not problem but, we’ve been very busy since the first day.  And, I’ve been constantly working overtime. I can access my blog alright, but I’m not comfortable with that old guy sitting behind us.  He’s acting like a supervisor, constantly looking at our computer screens.

My schedule is pretty tough, getting up early and all, but I enjoy what I’m doing right now.  I’m finally doing what I’ve always wanted to do:  getting my hands dirty with Java web development!  And I’m lucky again to have kind leaders.  Hopefully, I’ll get used to not eating something during work hours.  Indeed, it is really hard to concentrate when you could hear your stomach doing all kinds of noises.

Thank you all for the encouragement.  I hope to drop by your blogs soon.  Stay healthy everyone!

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. 

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!

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