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No dinner pictures tonight.

For lunch my colleague and I went to Johnny Rockets for a fastfood lunch. The irony is that the menus come with the number of calories on the side of each order. I got myself a double pattie burger, an oreo shake and fries, which totals up to around 3,000 calories.

I’m still contented and not terribly hungry at the moment.

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So here I am typing away at my Eee PC again. When not programming at work, I’ll be doing trying different things at home. Messed around with the Microsoft Windows shell and substituted Explorer with the Black Box implementation taken from Linux. Just an alternative design method, but I’m a keyboard person, relying heavily on memorised shortcuts to get things done. The Xandros operating system on the Eee hides things away yet if you know where to dig, you can find a lot of useful information and programs to get your things done.

Managed to get Sopcast installed on this thing, and now I can stream live English Premier League matches on the go, as long as I have a connection to the Internet. Heh, it’s not the usual .exe file where you double click it and the program just install itself for you. I’ve been spending a lot more time with the command prompt and although I know what the commands are instructing, I can’t quite think up those lines on my own (sort of like me knowing how to read a Chinese essay but not quite being able to write one. Heh, not anymore anyway).

Then there’s the tiny footprint in resource usage. This thing is very efficient, and even with multiple windows of applications open, it is not thirsty for memory and remains snappy. The processor can’t handle high definition video files, but even any processor older than 2 years would struggle with it.

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I’m just rediscovering my fascination with tech stuff. I used to mess up my computers very often not too long ago. Heh, now I have the luxury of redundancy as I have too many PCs lying around. There is only one of me and I can only be using one item at a time, and the different machines have different purposes.

Just good to be reminded of one’s youth every now and then. It gives you perspective on how life is and you remember the good things you used to look forward to. Heh