Archive for June, 2008

Malaysia Ex-DPM Anwar Ibrahim Accused of Sodomy, Again

Jun 29, 2008 Fun, Gossips

Yes yes yes, Anwar Ibrahim of PKR, Pakatan Rakyat is accused of sodomy again. This time the reported was filed by Saiful Bahari, one of Anwar’s aides.

“Yes, we have received a police report from an aide of Anwar Ibrahim that he was sodomised. But no, we will not arrest Anwar at the moment,” said deputy police chief Ismail Omar.

No matter how bad the current relationship between UMNO and Dr Mahathir is, seems like the guys there definitely have picked up some tricks from their former party leader.

Some people in forums actually related this case to the famous Hong Kong movie, 无间道, or the Hollywood version, The Departed. This is interesting. So who is 陈永仁? Who is 刘建明?

OK, relax a bit, have some fun with this spoof of 无间道, have some fun with GY仁, 肚烂明.

Malaysia’s Anwar to be investigated on sex charges: police
Aide alleges sodomy: Report lodged
拥总警长总检查长罪证遭报复 安华斥有心人捏造鸡奸案指控

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Just Jean Closed Down?

Jun 29, 2008 Blogosphere, Gossips, Singapore

I was surfing on the net around just now, wanted to see if there is any updates on Jean. However, when I visited Just Jean, I saw this:
just jean

She closed it down temporary is it? Notice of “Bandwidth Exceeded” can still have a Advertlets ads on top? Close down can still earn money, not bad.

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Bill Gates’ Ranting about His Own Windows

Jun 28, 2008 Around the Word, Fun, Gossips, IT

This is an internal email sent by Bill Gates 5 years ago. He was complaining about all the problems he encountered when he decided to download and use Movie Maker online. After 1 hour of trying, he still couldn’t get it. Haha, so Bill actually understand how we normal Windows users feel huh?

The email was revealed by Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter, on his Microsoft’s blog. Todd asked for Bill’s approval to post that email during his interview with Bill. the interview is about Bill Gates’ retirement from Microsoft. There are lots of interesting stuff on Microsoft posted in Todd’s Microsoft Blog as well.

—- Original Message —-

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don’t drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn’t in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system … and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn’t Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn’t use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night — why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like “Open” or “Save”. No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven’t run Moviemaker and I haven’t got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don’t you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

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Finding Nemo? It’s Now Close to Extinction!

Jun 28, 2008 Around the Word

I am sure many people like the movie <<Finding Nemo>>. I am one of the fans of this animation. After the movie was launched in 2003, clownfish (Nemo) suddenly became hot stuff. Every kid wanted to have Nemo at home, regardless whether they knew how to keep a tropical marine animal. And what’s happening now 5 years later? The clownfish expert said that it should be listed as endangered species! Who to blame?

Nemo
Thanks to His Own Popularity, Nemo Can’t be Found
Demand for real Finding Nemo clownfish putting stocks at risk

Yes, finding Nemo, before we totally lose it!

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Obama Fxxx Hillary?

Jun 28, 2008 Around the Word, Fun

It was uploaded 5 months ago. I am really slow…… but it is really damn funny.

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Nintendo - The Most Innovative in Responding to Customer Needs

Jun 28, 2008 Around the Word, Fun

It is a survey run by Wall Street Journal Asia for readers, Asia 200 survey. Nintendo tops the category of “Innovative in responding to customer needs”. Nintendo has not been in the top 10 since 2002. But thanks to the launch of Wii, Nintendo can now tell the world that, they are back to the peak. You play Wii before? Or Nintendo’s DS? How? Compared to PSP, PS3, XBox, which one better? I must say that Wii’s way of getting users to play the game is really really innovative.

Nintendo Captures Top Spot in Japan For Innovation

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