Chronicles oF Those who have not Time Left

samedi, juin 30, 2007

astounded by the number of orchids in the botanic gardens. and student price is only $1!

and squirrel!, which are always so cute

and nice carnivorous Venus fly-traps and pitcher plants

and jx showed me tadpoles

*gwinz*

joyeux anniversaire

lundi, juin 11, 2007

it feels nice to use my laptop! it looks nice, the interface looks nice, i like my black black windows theme. i like my black background. i like the black laptop. i like having a touchpad and thinkpad red button (whatever it's called), i like not having to shift my hand to the mouse. i like the way Office 2007 in black looks right here. It looks better in blue on the desktop. i like being able to use nus vpn to use Outlook to access emails. web email is so unwieldy. i like having all the programs already installed. because im too lazy to reinstall everything on the vista. it does take me months to do everything. and i found out that nus vpn would not likely be implemented on 64bit vista. drats, should just have stuck to 32bit, itchy fingers. not of nus' fault, but cisco's. and now i gotta figure out if WinSSHD's SSH server runs on vista x64

Lvl 34 Vindyamiriel, Pie-Eating Champion

Lord of the Rings Online
Book 9: Shores of Evedim
2 more days to go

*gwinz*
more stuff to play! not that i have much time to play these few days.
whopping 500mb to download.
i pity those poor satellite internet users in US who have a cap on maximum traffic and who will take forever to download. i am very impressed with their resolve to play on such a connection. and also to those ppl running on really old computers, i mean, older than my laptop. wowz.

i can't wait to start farming, or cooking

and the europe LoTRO has introduced more lifetime subscription for !150pounds. i am so glad i decided to get it early.

i suppose it makes up for my sis not being able to buy/play Battle for Middle Earth 2 coz the old computer wasn't really up to it.

i think i have supported enough games recently, financially.
but there's GTA San Adreas and The Sims 2 + all expansions and Rainbow Six dunno what version, and alot of other things that i feel bad for not installing. dah.
nothing much to torrent these days.

Libellés : lotro

UPMC

i finally got to the right person at UPMC after trying out 4 email addresses and obtaining this one from someone else who went there for SEP.
incidentally he/she didn't mention that this person was the magic door, who can produce the Application Form for exchange students. somehow i couldn't find the exchange section on the website. but this fantastic form is in English, hm.

mardi, juin 05, 2007

sigh

lundi, juin 04, 2007

this was amusing. talking about women and SAF, and how technological advances allow them to play a greater role.

"There are privileges to being a woman in the SAF. I think one of the things you see is that the way people respond to women in the SAF.

"I have been told many a times that the culture on board the ship changes for the better when the woman comes on board. The ship becomes neater, the men are more polite. You know, things like that".

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/280201/1/.html

.Net Framework 1.1 + service pack 1

after many encounters with the problem of installing .Net framework 1.1 + SP1 on Vista, finally a workable solution, although i have no idea how it works. i suspect it just runs a different installation procedure. hell it works great.

Vista + Lord of the Rings Online installation = trouble.
if you are already aware of this problem, try to download .NET framework 1.1 and 1.1 SP1, install them first before even attempting lotro installation. might avoid complications and wasted time.

else:
1) download .net framework 1.1 redistribution package and 1.1 sp1 as usual
2) renamed them to be dotnetfx.exe (if different) and dotnetfxsp1.exe
3) go to command prompt (I escalated to administrative)
4) from the folder where you put the two exe files above,
do: dotnetfx.exe /c:"msiexec.exe /a netfx.msi TARGETDIR=c:\dotnet"
5) do: dotnetfxsp1.exe /Xp:c:\dotnet\netfxsp.msp
6) do: msiexec.exe /a c:\dotnet\netfx.msi /p c:\dotnet\netfxsp.msp
7) then just install using the netfx.msi

got it off lotro forum, which was from some website, i can't remember which coz i saved it as text file. just be sure to type it all correctly. involves Administrator command prompt in vista which needs to be specially opened.

Libellés : .Net framework 1.1 SP1

Lord of the Rings Online!
Level 47 Elf Hunter Vindyamiriel

song of the moment:
de Jax
孙燕姿 - 雨天
周杰伦 - 珊瑚海

林俊杰&金莎 - 被风吹过的夏天
Kitaro - Symphony of Dreams
James Blunt - You Are Beautiful
Clannad - Seachran Charn Tsiail
Céline Dion - En attendant ses pas
ASIE - Et puis la terre
陈奕迅 - 十年
Yanni - Before I Go
Céline Dion/Garou - Sous le vent Dido - White Flag
梁静茹 - 如果有一天 [歌/词]
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

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