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Did most of the Quietroom integration at school on the laptop; I dislike laptop keyboards, hard to type on, and lugging a separate keyboard around is impractical. Met the client afterwards, arriving at 4.45pm and waiting until 5.30pm.
Unlucky day. My GAME practical's camera wouldn't go straight, so I tried pasting my lecturer's code bit by bit to find the bug. I accidentally deleted the whole practical. Crap. Had to redo practicals 3 and 4 from scratch.
Got a haircut before meeting friends at Tiong Bahru Plaza. I'd thought I'd be first there, but turned up third; everyone's punctual these days. They used to treat a 4.30pm meet as time to leave home.
Got home at midnight, too tired to blog. Went with my poly friends to The Great Escape, a mini concert plus a magic show at Suntec City's Convention Hall, organised by Touch Community, my friend's church.
My JSPG assignment: build an online auction site with JSP and Java Servlets. The logic is tricky, though web programming is alike: it's never the coding that's hard, it's the logic. Sketched the database structure.
Thursdays are my off day unless something urgent calls me to school. Had lunch with Elaine at Raffles City foodcourt before heading to her place to get MySQL running. We hit a few snags but eventually sorted it.
An interesting day, with most of my classmates buzzing about the Blaster Worm. All the SP computers are already patched. I wonder if they got infected first then patched, or patched the day Microsoft's advisory dropped.
After reading on the Blaster worm, here are some tips: run shutdown -a from Start, Run to cancel the forced shutdown. Install the MS03-026 patch and reboot; then download and run FIXBLAST.exe to clean your system.
Lunch at Ikea with Elaine: roast beef and shared meatballs, which I adore. Off to BBDC for two hours of FTT practice before the evaluation. To my surprise, I passed my first try with full marks.
Plenty of people have been hit by the W32.Blaster.Worm, which exploits the DCOM RPC vulnerability over TCP port 135. It downloads and runs msblast.exe, weighs 6,176 bytes, and targets Microsoft IIS, Windows 2000, NT and XP.
Our FYP is running a week behind, and I feel no pressure, so I'm forcing myself. Meant to take FTT practice at BBDC but skipped it. Dad was off and bought durians, my first in ages.
Slept until the afternoon, my first time in months. Lunch at some unnamed place opposite the Concourse building, my first visit. The Malay nasi padang was excellent, especially the chilli, and the iced Milo came incredibly thick.
Today marks Singapore's 38th birthday since independence in 1965. My driving instructor rang this morning about my schedule and told me to cancel my 21 August lesson; it wouldn't make a difference. My practical lessons begin soon.
Worn out from lack of sleep, so I came home after school and napped until 5pm. Met my poly friends at Tiong Bahru at 6pm for dinner, my first Plaza visit in ages; much has changed.
Long overdue for a site update, though there's little to report. Orientek is now Pixel Junkies; the old domain got cybersquatted, and cybersquatters suck. We've bought the direct URL, so please use that one going forward.
My first driving practical lesson: simple but nerve-wracking, moving back and forth before driving around the circuit. My instructor was patient and friendly. I couldn't stop smiling afterwards; learning to drive is fun. Lunch with Elaine after.
Meant to attend the school's National Day celebration but couldn't; I had a client meeting instead, though I got the free red polo shirt. The meeting ran until 7.30pm, mostly on CBT, whose coding looks challenging.
School for GAME practical, then Clementi to grab the last copy of Sams Teach Yourself ASP in 21 Days. Early, so I wandered Ngee Ann City with Reaper, eyeing a Panasonic DVD home theatre at $599.
Went to BBDC after school with Elaine to help her register and get my booklet stamped for the fixed group. My group G2066 jumped from Bronze to Gold, though early registration kept me at Bronze price.
Breakfast at Hans on Pickering Street before heading to Suntec. Picked up two spindles of 50 Smartbuy CD-Rs to restock, down to 20. I always buy Smartbuy; once you're used to something, it's hard to switch.
Just home after twelve hours out, my latest night in months. My ELIT lecture was at LT4A this morning, though I got lost finding it and met Jacky before heading in. I enjoyed it; the lecturer's a lawyer.
Lunch at foodcourt 1, famous for its western food. On the way to the bus stop, a lecturer caught me without my lanyard, a warning, since we're from ICT, but he threatened to email our director.