Over 400 posts...

I've posted over 400 blog entries on blogspot.
I feel that I'll probably stop posting on blogspot.

Post Raya

Syawal 1.
Logistics. I sent flowers and people to and from cemeteries. Working only half a day. I really really really really don't like to work on raya, unless its coding, but then again I don't like to work anyway and I don't consider coding as work, so I might as well say I don't like to work at all. But since the person ordering me around let me stay in her tummy for nine months, I will work.
Klang cemetery did very well, but Shah Alam cemetery was hit with heavy rain so it did not do so well.
At around 8 p.m we went to my mother-in-law's place.

Syawal 2.
Nothing much. I bought corn. Had ketupat. Played with my niece. I made her cry (not on purpose), we were watching this comercial about a teacher and some pupils, the teacher asked, "What is 4 + 5 ?" and after a while a student answered "9", then i asked my niece, "what is four plus negative two", then she cried.
I watched cicak man in the afternoon and cicak man 2 at night.
I finished, "Tipping Point" and probably I'll buy Blink (Gladwell), The Lost Symbol (Brown) and The Doll House (Gaiman).

Syawal 3
I'm on the net using my wife's celcom beruk band. I'm torrenting The Lost Symbol audio book and getting 95+ kilobytes / second, not bad.

Ah, before I forget,

I am not known for being a polite person,
sometimes I yell, sometimes I shout,
sometimes I call my friends names they don't like,
sometimes I say sexually explicit things,
sometimes I do things that I shouldn't have done,
for all these I ask forgiveness from my fellow friends
and ask the All Mighty to make me a better man and reduce the frequency I do these things.

To all my friends, I wish you well.

Bluetooth mouse problems

I've been using the Logitech V470 bluetooth laser mouse for a while. I must say, I'm a bit disappointed with it.

• Does not require a dongle (++)
• Does not work well on shiny surfaces (-)
• Does not work at all on glass (-)

It works pretty much like a normal optical mouse. Other than that, I've been experiencing frequent random disconnects. The mouse would be useless for a minute or two, I'd have to use the touch pad for a while, then it would work again. That's a killer.
Given a rating of 1 - 100 in problems, (1 being I don't like the color, 100 being I can't use it at all) I would give this random disconnects a high 90. Its that annoying.
I've searched for this and hope that this patch for Windows Vista would work.

Things to R&D

• Google Gears (Offline web apps)
• JTOM (Java open transaction management)
• JOSSO (Java Open Single Sign On) / CAS (Central Authentication Service)

Best. Job. Ever.

1. I'm working for a great company. Tabuk Technologies (+)
2. I eat the best sub RM 5 lunch ever. Wafi's Nasi Kukus Ayam Goreng Berempah. (+)
3. I get to do the thing I like. Java. (+)
4. I don't have to what I don't like. UI design. (+)
5. I don't actually have to code. I just look at other people's code and tell them how to fix it. I just go from one cubicle to the next and solve problems. Yesterday, I didn't even have to touch my laptop or start up eclipse.
   
6. I don't have to work a 5-day week. I only go to work 3 days a week. (+)
7. The client site is a bit far. LHDN Jalan Duta <-> Puchong. (-)
8. The pay is ok. Not the highest I've ever had, but not the lowest either. (-)
   

A lot of plus points, two minus point.

Trying to get organized: Attempt #1

I'm trying to get organized.
I bought a labeler and a voice recorder.

LHDN: 1st Day (again)

Today is my first day in LHDN, again. Last year I worked with LHDN. Hope everything goes well. Maybe I have to re-write a major portion of the web apps.

On a totally unrelated matter, here's my son.

Sorry for doing stupid codes

In all my years of coding, only once someone looked at my codes and said "this code is stupid". I'm sorry.
Sorry for writing stupid codes.

A day a the zoo

I can't recall when was the last time I went to the zoo. I can't even recall if I ever visited the zoo.

My son doesn't seem to enjoy it much. Maybe he's too young to like animals.

What do you do when your team leader doesn’t know something simple?

I read this at stackoverflow

What do you do when your team leader does not know why the following is wrong:

a.SomeProp = a.SomeProp; // no funny side-effects, plain old property

reminds me of

a.setProp(a.getProp());