hacker wannabe & google gadgets

Spending time in front of the computer is considered worthless if you don't really know what you're doing and didn't see the result. But we do it anyway, surfing the internet like we can chunk every info available from webster. Best part, some people use the internet to stalk and to show off their hacking skills. Oh come on, art not thou ppl know there are always other ways to go around and beyond each of his/her "whatever" skills. You can never tell who is the best at computer hacking or programming. Even Bill Gates or Paul Allen never admits that. (do u seriously think they're good at programming? erkss..) Back to stalking, someone was really trying to get on my nerves by taking over my yahoo account. What was that for? it's just an account.. you can't really do anything with it pon!! However, in less than 24 hrs, I managed to get the account back with the help of a friend whose name need to be classified for privacy and safety reason.. hehe. So serves you right "stoopid hacker wannabe". Lain kali belajar ilmu sampai habis yer. I know what you're using, it's not that trojan horse. Ok, stop pissing that person off with his loss.

Look at what I did to my desktop.. huhu

I think google already made its released on desktop gadgets yesterday. I had this gadgets sitting on my desktop for a few days now since I am helping out with their BETA trial version of google gadgets. Its sort of mac desktop version except that it has less features and less cool available gadgets to choose from. I bet they're going to have a whole lot of new widgets when they make this software public and the source code available for open source. I'm trying to configure the sudoku code so that it can play for me after time out. (cheating lah in a way). So, in case you are wondering what gadgets I've been storing on my desktop. Clockwise from top left are Quran citation, Seattle weather snow globe, a music player, calender, horoscope, calculator, flower pot (it actually grows and you kind of have to take care of it by watering it), system monitor (to see how much space and memory these gadgets took off from my comp), sudoku player and lastly a wireless tracker. Some hidden widgets are gmail notifier, and google programmer source code live updates. So far so good, they've been constantly taking only around 5% of my memory the last few days and is getting lower. Im sure they are good enough for release. So in case you are interested to help them out with the trial version, check this out. You can also contribute your own created widget to google and they will surely publish it if its good enough =P My only concern is, how secure is it for me to have them sitting on my desktop? Google could be chugging all infos I have or doing some experimenting on me like how my browsing behavior is. Not that I have something big going on.. but I wonder.


blablabla.. think this post is really loooong. see, how much more time do I need to waste? remind me why I'm blogging again? I DON'T know. it's just that I'm always get bored at 5 am in the morning.

When things happen ...

I always say to myself, they happen for a reason... a good one. But when I can't solaced myself with that, I'll turn to someone that can. Fortunately, I have a lot of them here with me.. and I have someone who totally understand me and I'm thankful for that. At the same time, I want to be the comfort for others... to my friend who really feels the lost. Some people is suffering more than I do and they don't deserve that. Sometime I wish life would be seen as fair as it is. I know life is fair.. I'm not blaming on it. I envy those who could greatly withstand the pain they are tested with. For that, I thank Him for giving me and the others the strength. ok, back to architecture studying.. final in 5 hours. ohh can't wait for it to be over. I'll have monday and wednesday off for the rest of the summer. phewww...

I posted "Tell me what I feel" entry the other day when I sounded all bummed up. A friend of mine suggested this song. Didn't like it at first but now I'm stuck with it. Oh, it's not an english song.


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2 DSD-Peterpan

How could I put an end to my crudeness??

Have you ever really give a deep thought about what goes on in another person's mind? And I mean you seriously think about it, analyzed their every move, de-constructed each molecule of their being, trying desperately to unlock the door and receive a sudden rush of understanding, simply to feel that you probably know them, but instead you find yourself even more confused and uncertain about their intent? Lately, this has been bothering me. You think you know someone, you think you have THEM figured out down to their DNA, and then they completely throw you off guard and become something unexpected, something different.

It's so strange but so nice. To find that just when you think you've seen everything another has to offer, you find that you haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg. And I can't wait until I finally do. Life is so questionable; almost everything related to it; I’ve learned my lessons for so many times but I’m still deludable. I just wish I’ll be off the hook sooner and are able to be on more of the complaisant side, but that will never happen. you know..you can never feel "ok" when you know something is really wrong. The thing that really bothers me is "I could never tell when I'm certain or when I'm trying to be certain. And I hurt too many nice poeple because of that". How could I put an end to my crudeness??

BlueDot.

DotThis! Bluedot is a new cool application that I'm using on the web right now. If you're an avid web surfer like me, you might find this interesting. Bluedot is a social bookmarking (kind of Friendster, MySpace and Facebook)website service. But unlike the normal social networking websites, Bluedot is not where you can leave other ppl fancy testimonials, write them tones of messages and bulletins, and stalk their pictures, it's where you can share what you enjoy on the internet. I just like the idea of sharing your bookmarks with your friends. Basically, it'll help you to spend more time on the internet, browsing what other people find interesting.. (as if I didn't spend enough time in front of the computer lah kan). Since I promised Nikki (a friend who is now working @ BlueDot) to promote it, so here goes...

I've been helping BlueDot through its Beta development process. I registered through an invitation and gave them my usability testing feedback. Wuz one of the first 100 ppl registered tho. Honestly, I wasn't very convinced that BlueDot is a cool thing that I want to get involved in. But since it's a Seattle based startup company, and it involves some of my CS fellows here at univ. of wash. I thought I'll give them my support.. hehe. They didn't have a very applicable and convenient dotting system at first, but now.. they've made such a big improvement to the system and algorithm and I'm just in love with it. So check them out. I think they officially went public last week at Gnomedex conference so you can now just sign-up without any invitation. How it works? Simply, you can put a DotThis! button at your toolbar, click it whenever you think you want to share a particular website with your friend.. and add it. It'll appear at your personal Bluedot. You can also browse what other people dotted on the internet. More Specific information about the BlueDot features can be found here. And check out their blog too. If you've registered, share your bookmarks with ME here. After few days launched to public, from 100, they now have around 3000 people dotting @ BlueDot. Ouh yeah, and if you notice, I have flash updates on what I recently dotted for Bluedot at the bottom part of the right side on this blog. Disregard of whatever issues they are dealing with, they managed to make it happen on time as planned. Way to go Nikki and congrates!
--ARINA

The July 4th.

You won't be able to view this post properly if you're using upgraded IE released last April because of their stupid control of ActiveX as results of their settled lawsuit with Eolas company. This is why you should all switch to Firefox! =)



I almost didn't go to the gaswork park last Tuesday after seeing the "tones of crowds" that walked passed by my house heading there. But since I promised one of my friends, I thought maybe I should just go rather than sitting at home and not doing anything. And yeah, after 15 minutes walking to the park... (and 15 minutes hassling with thousands of people), we managed to reserve a standing spot near the hilltop (as shown). According to TIME magazine,this event is acclaimed as... Top Five Fireworks Displays in the country (source: WaMU). At first, I wasn't really comfortable being in the midst of the crowd. Some of them were really obnoxious and stinks.(Why lah they allow people to drink during this event, the alcohol smell always makes me want to puke). The display starts around 10pm and lasts for about 30 minutes. They were all very entertaining and some of them were floridly choreographed. I embedded one of my recorded clips..

So, if you ask me, ignoring the fact that I have to crunch my way all the way up and down the hill, it was worth walking and hassling to get that spectacular view of the fireworks. (Somehow, it makes up my whole depressing day). It's the whole point of getting out from the house and do something on a holiday anyway. So here are some of the pics taken with people I went with.



Can't really take good pictures of the fireworks so I mainly recorded it. There were so many people on the way back so we decided to stay a lil' bit later since our house isn't that far from the park. And there goes a day of my July 4th.. started monotonously and ended with colors and noises.

Today

If I'm fearful- If I'm angry- If I'm jealous- If I'm coy- If I feel dependent-the feelings I have are not my problems. My attitudes toward these feelings are my psychological problems.

unknown
source : Zaadz

Am planning to watch some fireworks display later this evening in anticipation of the 4th of July celebrations. I didn't get to do this last year, but I remembered travelling all the way to downtown Seattle with Sarah during our Freshmen year and got stuck in traffic until almost 2 am. But this time, we're going to Gaswork park, it's a popular spot for Fireworks on 4th of July and only 15 minutes away(walking) from my house. It's located on the north shore of Lake Union, and provides an amazing view of Seattle skyline.

Oregon recap.

As I wrote before, I went to Oregon during my spring interim the other day. So here's a recap of the stuff we did and some slideshows of happy² people.

Oregon is fascinating, with spectacular views of waterfalls and mountains. Though I did felt the roadtrip was somewhat tiring (we spent more or less 20 hours in the car in 3 days), I still appreciate the fact that I get to discharge the pressure that had been afflicting me throughout the last few weeks of my spring quarter. Places of interests that we decided on this time were Mount Hood and Silver Falls . we drove along the Oregon coast for almost 10 hours. Mm, can't really puji the beaches lar cuz I've seen better but oh well, it's acceptable. Put together some slidewhows from the trip. Mix of posed, candids and sceneries. Ohh yeah, and world cup is getting more and more interesting especially after England and Brazil loss today. So.. no more Kaka on field (ohh.. I took the blame, since I just realize how "pondan"ish he ran on field today, whatever, hehe) I have the feelings Germany and France would go to final and that I would need to take a day off from work this wednesday..