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Virus infected again!
First it was my Dell (now temporarily out of commission) now it’s my sister’s Sony notebook.
All I did was just turn off AVG, a freeware antivirus, for a moment while trying to install a different antivirus. As soon as I disabled AVG I started getting popups after less than 30 minutes!! The popups said [...]
Dell notebook replacement
Temporary replacement that is. I’ll probably need to get a removable harddisk to backup my data before formatting the virus laden hard disk. In the meantime the timing was just right when I could borrow my sister’s notebook as it will not be needed for at least a month.
I forgot that I have an [...]
Traffic back to normal
Tired
It’s 3 days after DATMO and I still feel tired. Perhaps it’s because I have not stop to take a rest. I have been meeting people the last two days talking about web projects. Today I am going to stay at home and sleep most of the day.
Random picture from DATMO:-
Will not be playing
Many assumed that since there is a GilaChess team, I’m also playing. But I am not.
Reason is that I want to concentrate on the websites and blogs. The DATMO official site is not up yet. There is a lot to be done. Beside the GilaChess team is quite strong now without me messing things up [...]
Testing 1,2,3 from Cititel Hotel lobby
It’s not as pathethic as I made it sound when I said I had no internet at the playing hall. I do have an Airzed account I can use but I have to go down to the Hotel Lobby to do that. It’s just 5 floors down and a lift away.
This is a test post [...]
Going Polyphasic again
Being without a regular full time job makes what I’m going to try out possible. I’m doing away with monophasic sleep for about a month. That is, I’m not going to sleep in one chunk of my usual 6-7 hours but break it up into naps. You can read more about this in StevePavlina’s blog [...]
Fast Domain name renewal with GoDaddy.com
Wow! Less than 30 minutes after I made payments I checked and ChessPublisher.com is back up again! Now that’s what I call fast service from GoDaddy.
Busy
One of the essential traits one must have to work and make money online is that you have to be disciplined and deliver your work on time. I definitely lack in this respect and have procrastinated for the past several weeks. Now I’m catching up on all the backlog of work.
What this means is that [...]
Black Asus EEE PC for NC reporting?
I tested out the black Asus EEE PC at a DiGi store near my place.
It was everything I expected. The screen was small but very clear. The whole notebook was super light and felt like a toy. That’s a big plus for me as I’m tired of lugging my Dell 640m around in a [...]
Chess Blogging is fun!
I am very grateful that Royal Selangor Pewter provided free WiFi so that the live updates for the tournament was possible. I wish I could have had better updates such as videos and game excerpts but that was impossible since I was also playing in that tournament. With hindsight, I would definitely not play. [...]
SMS update trial
I’ll be updating tomorrow’s Stonemaster Amateur tournament via SMS and Twitter tomorrow.
What this means is that whatever I SMS to Twitter would appear almost instantly on this blog.
Cool eh? Those who have nothing better else to do on a Saturday, can see this in action on this blog somewhere on the right sidebar labelled [...]
IM me
Stonemaster Fadli tried to contact me via Yahoo messenger and inadvertently sent one email to the Yahoo Group. This was seen as spam as pointed out by Thomas Voon. One of my moderators even banned Fadli’s email from the group.
I’m sure it was an honest mistake. So to avoid such things from happening again, here [...]
Rainy day
It’s raining heavily !!
There’s thunderstorms too, so I pulled out my telephone cords and main power cords to my wireless router as well my new Aztech DSL 605E modem.
Don’t want another lightning strike to ruin my 3-day-old Aztech modem. Typing this blog post out on my PDA and irKeyboard. They still work well together. Both [...]
Selangor Open - Serious tournament
I’m thinking twice about entering the Selangor Open 2008. I have 3 reasons stopping me from registering. The high RM70 fee, self-preparation and the venue. I don’t know how to get there but that’s a lame excuse I guess.
But RM 70 it’s a bit high. I’m sure the organisers have a reason but [...]
