This news is quite old, dated 25th October 2002, but it is quite interesting. Didn’t know Yahoo! is going to change its scripting language to PHP from a proprietary server-side page language written in C/C++.
Here are some interesting facts about Yahoo! :
» 201 Million Unique Users » 93 Million Active Registered Users » More Than 1.5 Billion Page Views A Day » 4500+ Servers » 16 Co-Locations » 74 Properties » 25 International Sites » 13 Languages » 8.1 Million Lines Of Code In C/C++ » 3.0 Million Lines Of Code In Perl » Open Source Softwares Runs Yahoo! Business
Hehe, from now on I think I shall address my girlfriend as Lian in here, sounds nicer and more personal.
Went to Tiong Bahru Plaza for lunch with Lian and my brother, ate the usual Spicy Beef Vegetable Soup Set from the Korean Stall. Went to walk round Tiong Bahru Plaza for a while, Lian bought 2 comics and my brother bought the orange Converse “Grass” slippers.
Decided to change the ShoutBox and put in only on the main page so that it will load faster for the rest of the pages. It will also appear as a shout module, not just shout module alone because I have been doing so for a few months and it is practically empty. Humans are born lazy, so I don’t think they can be bothered to click on the “Shout Module()” link.
Modified the “Blogs Links” to a drop-down menu style, the old style is taking way to much space on the page. So now the time taken to process the main page is about 1 second and the rest of the site is about 0.5 second or less.
Went to my mom’s office to take pictures of the products, had a hard time finding a suitable location to place the products, the place is always too dark, so no choice but to place it at a place where it is nearer to sunlight, even so, the pictures taken is not as bright as I though, still can make it though. Took about a total of about 50 pictures.
After that went to apply GIRO for my EZ-Link card after that, so now once the value reach below $0, it will auto top-up $20. Save me the trouble to queue up for 15 minutes just to top up $20 at the counter.
It’s a rainy day and the sun wouldn’t shine, it’s a rainy, it’s a rainy. Nice old techno song from Ice MC called It’s A Rainy Day. It practically rained the whole day today.
Slept till 1.30pm, the weather is so good to sleep. LOL. Went to Tiong Bahru Plaza to eat lunch with my brother at about 2pm when the rain is lighter. Ate Spicy Beef Vegetable Soup Set from the Korea stall there. It is nice. One of the best Korea food stall I have eaten. Yummy. Drooling? On the way back, went to buy Bread Talk’s bread for my girlfriend.
Wake up at 8am today to fetch my girlfriend from the bus-stop to my house, and after that my mom fetch her to work. Went back to sleep after that. LOL
Studied for my BTT this afternoon, read through the whole book and I thought it will be easy, but after reading it, i realised that there is so much thing to remember, the test is 50 MCQs, cannot get more than 5 wrong. But before taking the test I need to take an evaluation test something like prelims as I am taking as a student of the school and not as a private candidate.
Stayed at home for the whole day, only went out of the house to eat lunch, Monday is normally a boring day, most of the stalls at my house’s coffee shop is closed, so no choice but to eat fishball noodle.
Came back played a few rounds of Starcraft: Brood War with my girlfriend till evening. Dinner was rather simple, just 3 dishes and some otahs. Again played Brood War with my girlfriend till night. LOL
Went to Marina Square to watch The Guru before proceeding to Billy’s Farewell party at Union Square. Wow didn’t know Billy can rap so well, trance/dance music by DJ Ash(I think) plus his rap, rocks. I do not mind buying the CD if there is one, but it is a pity such a good CANI lecturer has to leave, sad.
Left the party earlier because my girlfriend was not feeling well, so we proceed home. 2 of her friends which is also my coursemates(obviously), also stayed overnight at my house, so that makes a total of 4 people(including me) sleep in 1 room, not really that cramp. Still can accommodate 2 more people. Hehe
Stumbled upon a site that has a news headline called “109-bit Encryption Broken”, after reading it, it is quite interesting, so I might as well share it with you all.
Here is it:
109-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography knocked over with brute force
Didn’t went out today, only leave the house for lunch and dinner. Spent the afternoon organising the chalet photos to be viewed online(resizing, compressing, etc). For that alone takes about the whole afternoon, before you know it, it is night. Time flies.
Long time didn’t download songs, flip though 8 Days magazine and download all those top songs which are on the chart. After which went to eat HongKong Street Cooked Food at Alexander Road, that stall also quite famous, been onto a few food programs before.
