On what I will do before I start at the next job I have actually been a big fan of Heath Ledger's since "10 Things I Hate About You", but I think this was still a funny conversation.Don AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: but i'll likely start in feb which leaves me with one week break something i haven't had since i graduated! woohoo!JaDe: that's so nice...Don AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: yeah it isi can finish up some stuff i've been putting off like my album and novel :p oh, almost forgot my epic feature filmJaDe: who are you working with? are you doing avatar II or somethingDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: nah, something grittierheath ledger beginsa reboot of the heath ledger storystarring christian bale as heath ledger it's gonna be awesomeJaDe: whatDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: there's this part where christian bale plays heath ledger playing the joker in dark knightJaDe: christian bale does not make heath ledgerDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: "who plays christian bale playing batman?" u ask?adam west, of course :pJaDe: ahahahahha that's gonna be awesomeDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: yeahwe're gonna have the "POW" and "BAM" stuff only the latest in special effects for my babyJaDe: are you aiming for oscards ocars*aarahrgahrgahggghh OSCARSDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: lolJaDe: stupid fingersDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: i'm pretty sure it'll sweep the awardsJaDe: surejust invite me to the premierDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: needless to say the film will be based on my novel and the soundtrack will be from my albumi'm just worried the universe might collapse because it wasn't built to contain that level of awesomeJaDe: hahahwell arent you afraidif the universe collapseswhere will you be?Don AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: it's a concerni'm hoping to get chuck norris to maintain the structural integrity of the universe with his beard Physician, heal thyself! Hmm, I saw this post in the morning. While I am not a fan of the national rag myself, in this instance, mainstream journalism clearly got their facts right. So I wrote this comment on his blog."Free software does not equate to open source. One good example of free software that isn’t open source include Google Docs, or pretty much most of the Google Apps. Please editor, check Wikipedia the next time something like this lands on your desk."Ah, actually, the author could have been using "free software" the way the FSF uses it. While not precisely synonymous with the term "open source" as defined by the OSI, it's pretty close.Ironically, you could have found this information on the wikipedia article on free software. :)Even more ironically, it was moderated. One would have thought that someone railing about the lack of journalistic quality in mainstream media would have been less quick to censor on his own blog, but that's by the by. The primary irony here was that he actually committed the sin he accused others of (not checking his facts). Physician, heal thyself![Edit]Oops, my nerd rage was too hasty. Apparently the guy's blog is hooked up with Twitter, which was why some comment originally posted on Twitter appeared on the blog but the comment I posted on the blog did not appear. My bad. Sorry, motochan. I have a dirty, dirty mind So the Zii has finally been released. I took a look at their OS overview and saw the following picture. Immediately, I thought that it plays pr0n out of the box.Seriously, though, it seems like a cool piece of technology, so go check it out. Also, please donate US$399 to my Beer Fund so I can get one of those. Come on, people, this is no time to be stingy, KTHXBYE. Can you code? Heheh, this made me snigger a little. His name was Michael Jackson This has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Eclipse is bloated Why does an IDE require half a gig of disk space? Does it, like, fry my eggs or something? Does it play videos? Isn't it supposed to just help me edit my code?Seriously. I am an asshole Check out this picture.I saw someone who said she would date Wolverine and went to all the trouble of changing my display name just so I could crack this joke. And yes, I have two gtalk accounts who are in each others' contact lists. I deplore competition So I'm considering joining this programming competition, and I was talking to a friend about it. She's considering joining too, so here's the conversation that ensued...Friend: hope to see u too, if i;m joiningFriend: ahhahahaDon AQ®: gold ÷ 100 = 忍: hahaha if you're joining too i hope u dieAs you can see, I am not big on the sportsmanship. Now, where did I leave my can of arsenic? Why do lesbians turn guys on? No idea. But they do.Let us bridge our cultural and institutional differences in a shuddering display of joy and togetherness and be an example to the rest of the worldYou just have to love that line. Facebook shenanigans I feed on the misery of others. Innocuous News Hacker News has recently been renamed to Innocuous News by Paul Graham, because someone complained that he kept getting weird looks from people who thought he was a computer criminal. This is the sort of quaint hacker humour that keeps me going back to it everyday. Password Generator! For great Justice! The other day, I was talking with a friend about the hassle of having to come up with and remember passwords for every site that I have an account with. So I thought, hey, why not write a password generator capable of coming up with unique passwords for each site based on my handle and a password so that I would only need to remember one password?Well, why not? Blogger pagination hack update It works for labels now, bitches, and if you're already using it, you don't even have to alter your blogger template to enable it. Enjoy.Yeah, it's been requested before, but I didn't really want to make the effort of figuring out how to do it (hey, I do have other stuff to do). Then someone was actually industrious enough to find out how and, since it was a minor modification, I implemented it. You guys have Alexander to thank for this. Google's April Fool's joke goes awry Breaking news, only on I Rock, You Suck.I have no inspiration. Sue me. Epic Fail So I failed my driving test today, and I was talking about it with one of my bros.(07:34:56 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: lol(07:34:59 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: epic fail!(07:35:17 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: grand total of 38 points Friend: what 38 points?(07:36:03 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i suspect 史上最强！1(07:36:12 SGT) Friend: Ohhh(07:36:15 SGT) Friend: ur driving!(07:36:17 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: cfm!(07:36:25 SGT) Friend: cfm 38 is godlike(07:36:31 SGT) Friend: i suspect u killed someone(07:36:47 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i got off easy actually(07:36:54 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: the instructor failed me but kept quiet(07:36:59 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: we buried the body together(07:39:03 SGT) Friend: haha 30 points for 1 kill(07:39:08 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: yeah!(07:39:13 SGT) Friend: i suspect u did more than just killing someone(07:39:25 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: cfm i reversed to make sure he's dead(07:39:30 SGT) Friend: u kill + reverse onto his body(07:39:33 SGT) Friend: + 8 points(07:39:41 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: cfm(07:39:43 SGT) Friend: hahaha(07:39:48 SGT) Friend: u power(07:39:51 SGT) Friend: but fear not(07:39:57 SGT) Friend: i failed 2 times also(07:39:59 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i already booked may 7th(07:40:07 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: u failed twice or took twice?(07:40:12 SGT) Friend: 3rd pass(07:40:19 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: but i suspect u cannot beat my high score(07:40:34 SGT) Friend: legend has it the best drivers pass after the 2nd attempt(07:40:44 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: lol yeah!(07:40:49 SGT) Friend: ur high score takes a man to do it(07:41:03 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: are they the ones who are called 烈火战车！2(07:41:09 SGT) Friend: 38 is like A*(07:41:23 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i suspect the test is /40 only(07:41:27 SGT) Friend: cfm they are all future F1 drivers(07:41:34 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i missed full marks by 2 points!(07:41:56 SGT) Friend: normally after 30 points they will take over the wheel cos u r a hazard on the road(07:42:12 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: lol(07:42:13 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: actually(07:42:13 SGT) Friend: he give chance let you drive back liao(07:42:21 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i think this tester too yim zim(07:42:33 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i nv make tt many mistakes i think(07:42:38 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: maybe he see my hair beh song(07:42:41 SGT) Friend: haha he dun like you lar(07:42:48 SGT) Friend: cfm ur afro(07:42:52 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: cfm(07:43:05 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: i suspect i must wear terrorist mask next tp(07:43:11 SGT) Don AQ®: Epic fail!: kk later1Means "strongest in history". It's an Asian thing.2Literally: Fierce fire war vehicle. It was a HK movie a lot of Chinese dudes of my generation liked. Censorship I just saw this on Hacker News. Apparently, Australia is banning Wikileaks, and Australian webmasters who link to Wikileaks will receive a fine of up to AUS$11000 per day. That seems a little harsh.This post does not have a point except that I thought it would be cool if I got my blog banned in Australia. Also, I think it would be cool if this became a widespread meme and whole chunks of the internet started to link to Wikileaks, thereby making the Australian feds ban like, half the internet. That would be so tits. Whimsy I just saw a profile picture of my colleague's on MSN and it showed him posing with a prominent leader in Singapore. This colleague of mine often sends me, via MSN, spammy links to Viagra or pr0n or whatnot. This is not because he is a pervert, but because his computer has a virus. The result of the confluence of all these is that I ended up wondering if that politician (who is quite old) uses a computer, and if he does, whether it's infected with a virus. Astrology. Nonsense, much? Please read this before basing any of your actions on astrology. The online diary I have decided to blog like I'm writing an online diary, because that's how it all started, right? If there's one thing I'm about, it's keeping it real. Because I'm street, aight?Dear Diary, it's been nice talking to you, but I'm going to go take a shit right now. Presenting the RequestProcessorFactoryFactory Yes, you heard me. --> RequestProcessorFactoryFactoryRemember kids, this is what happens to your brain when you do Java. From Bash.org This is one for the history books. Cute spider Saw this hilarious post recently. I'd duplicate the post, but you're not worth the effort. Icky Pr0n Oh man, why? And who? I'm not even going to link this, but you can go take a look if you're interested --> http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/insults/iceland1.jpg Everybody should read this The fable of the dragon-tyrant. The Dodger Check this out.Looks like drafts are not the only things he's good at dodging. Dear Mr. President My friend and I were talking about long job titles and how there seems to be a generally inverse relationship between the length of a person's job title and his actual ability. We also observed that if your job title doesn't tell people what you actually do, then you're probably not doing much. Take, for instance, the title Deputy Assistant Vice President. I remarked, upon hearing this title, that it's like Number 2 of Number 2 of Number 2, since that's more or less what the words "deputy", "assistant" and "vice" means. You might as well call the job Vice Vice Vice President.We then came up with the following.vice(degree){ if(degree==0) return "president"; return "vice " + vice(--degree);}So in this case "vice(3);" would be the title of the guy above.I think we can all agree that this is a more efficient method (method, get it? haw haw haw) for expressing such titles.p.s. I am a software programmer, which means I get paid to think about stuff like that.p.p.s. Yes, I know an iterative function would be more efficient usually, but recursive functions are just cooler. How to write unmaintainable code I found this article absolutely fascinating and hilarious. Beyond the trappings of manic humour, however, there are some pieces of arcane technical knowledge to be gleaned from there. Take this C snippet, for instance.int arr[2] = {1,2};int i = 1;Now, what is the value of i[arr]? Yes, it seems obvious to me now, but I was a little surprised to find that gcc accepted it. Outrageous claims: Behold, I am Atlas Outrageous claim #1: Ah, you noticed the financial markets rallying? I did that. Slap fest! I was randomly surfing videos and came upon this. 4 words: Fight Club for Chicks. And it was kinda hot. I prove my assholiness yet again. I was talking with a friend just now, and he had just completed his National Service (the mandatory 2-year sentence term in the armed forces for Singaporean males). So he was telling me that it's tough to be back in the civilian world because he hasn't found a job yet and there was no more allowance coming from the army. Then he jokingly wondered how many more people he had to sleep with.Punchline: I'll pay you to not sleep with me, dude.