anti-keseronokan Has Moved!

I finally rent a shared web host, and register the domain name that I've been long dreaming of. One of the main intention is to host my own personal site and blog. WordPress is a very plausible choice for that, so I test it for a while and set it up in the web host. In the process of migrating from Blogger to WordPress, I manage to screw-up my lovely OliveDrab layout. Note to you guys, please don't bet your future on WordPress import function, and if some instruction says that you should back-up your blog template, please make sure you obey! How the importer work is by changing your blog layout to some CSV-ish text style, use cURL to read the page, and split the content into DB. Wow, that sucks big time man. I thought it gonna use Blogger API, thats why I didn't back-up. It failed half way and it left my blog in that ugly text layout. Finally I managed to prevail. The trick: leech the site using HTTrack, setup the Apache to serve the files locally on my machine (just to make sure it works, I dont know if cURL understands "file://"). Then, I run the importer script; the hacked version that is, by yours truly :) It took so long to run, but it ends up okay in the end, so all is fine. Then I dumped the SQL and import it on the web host server. So finally, you can now visit the new blog at http://ikhwanhayat.net/.

Yes, go there now, it's up and running.

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Awal Ramadhan 15 Oktober di Google Calendar?

Kalau kau ada add "Malaysia Holidays" dlm Google Calendar kau, kau akan lihat 15 Oktober ada event "Awal Ramadan". Aku dah tertipu. Macam korang-korang jugak, bila orang tanya bila mula puasa, aku cuma jawab "hujung bulan 9, ke awal bulan 10?". Nasib baik ada orang cakap, kalau tak tentu aku puasa sekejap je, lepas tu dah raya. Untuk dapatkan tarikh yg betul, korang kena add "Islamic Holidays" calendar. Lepas cerita Kiko dilelong di eBay, aku mula berminat nak try online calendar. Sangkut kat Google Calendar sebab ada link ke calendar dari GMail (Google the new Microsoft?). Nampaknya dah ada pembida yg menang. Mula lelong pada harga $50,000, last bid ialah $258,100. Wow, pakcik kayo!

Not Enough Memory Error In Nokia 3230

I have a Nokia 3230. Ok, not that hip, I guess now it's considered as old. I had a problem with it, it kept saying "Not enough memory. Messages received cannot be saved", or something like that, I forgot to print screen. It happens when I send or received text messages (nerds like me got texts also ok!), and an annoying small envelope icon kept blinking on the far corner of the screen driving me mad. Well, I tought maybe I got too many messages in my inbox. That is absolutely true on the first time I got the error, I got like 2548 messages (okay, exagerated, several hundreds only). So I delete them all (stashed it somewhere in my PC actually, don't play-play, I got you recorded). Then recently, I got the darn error again. This time, there's only like 50 messages. I deleted them again. But the error kept coming after tens of messages or so. Obviously something fishy is going on. I used FExplorer to browse the content of my phone flash memory, looking for suspicious files. BTW, FExplorer is a file explorer for Symbian OS, something like Windows Explorer for Windows OS. This is one piece of an awesome (and free!) software, don't leave home without it... Eventually, I came across this "C:\system\Apps\VisualRadio\VisualRadio.ini" file which is 1.8MB in size. That's obscenely big according to mobile phone standard! Not sure why in the heck that this file is so big. I downloaded it to my PC and opened it with an editor. It's a binary file, full of gibberish garbage. It's a setting file for the Visual Radio application (I guessed). I got like 15 station presets in there, doesn't make sense that it could grow to that insane proportion. So, living life as dangerously and over the edge as usual, I decided to delete it. Ok, I copied the file over to another place first (dangerous, not stupid), and backup my station presets (by backup I meant copy it over to a piece of paper). And here goes nothing, press the "C" button, "Delete VisualRadio.ini?", yep, finish 'em off. All done, I freed almost half of the phone memory. The weird thing is, when I opened the Visual Radio, just to make sure it's working, I see that I still have all my presets. The VisualRadio.ini was re-created again, now only about 7KB in size. Nothing seems wrong. I guess maybe we gonna find out sooner or later. Hope my handphone doesn't get blowned up or anything.

Tech·Ed SEA 2006

Microsoft Tech·Ed South East Asia 2006 will be held on 5-8 Sept 2006, at KL Convention Centre. That's tomorrow, yippee! I'm looking forward to attend the conferences under the developer track and also the architecture track (ehem, being ambitious are we?). Several topics of interest: Atlas, DataSet vs Business Objects, WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon), PowerShell (Monad), and hope to pick-up lotsa tips and tricks (and freebies too :) Asean Communication Expo & Forum (ACM 2006) will be held at the same date and place too! This one is free, so maybe I'll pay a visit also. So KLCC gonna be packed with people. HR doesn't allow me to go for full 4 days :( so I can only come on Tuesday, Thursday & Friday (maybe). So, see you there! p.s: Email me if you wanna meet, 'coz I wanna meet you too :) You can find my mail addy at the left side and the bottom of this site.

Goodbye Jacky

Jacky has just left the office. I am sad. Although we are not really that close of a friend, but man, he has been the guy sitting beside me for 8 hours every day for the past 2 years. He's among the few who laugh at my lame jokes, and manage to reply with even lamer ones (of course, I reply back with the lamest :). The only one who can sing the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song with me, and a fellow avid fan of the best Cantonese actor ever: Stephen Chow. He taught me a lot about .NET, and SQL, and a bunch of other stuff. We started working at this place almost at the same time, separated only by a weekend, and now, he has left. Jacky, I wish you all the best, good luck for your career and family, live long and prosper, and keep the code flowing! Radical, dude! Thanks for sitting next to me for these past 2 years, and for being a good friend. I know you read my blog, don't know how frequent though, but it'd be swell if you can post a comment.