Singapore is very cold
09:37 AM on Saturday 01 August 2015
Looking at Ernest and Esther, one would think that Singapore is very cold.
The evening view
07:15 PM on Thursday 23 July 2015
Took a shot from the lift lobby as we left the house. Edited using a new app Enlight which is quite nice. Very complete set of tools.
Dumping data from Excel files
08:49 AM on Tuesday 21 July 2015
In my area of work, Excel files are the predominant form of data storage which is quite sad. And the amount of data kept in these files can be rather large. So I wrote a small python script to dump out the data in tab delimited form to STDOUT using openpyxl. Not bad for 4 lines of actual codes.
Esther drew us
07:40 PM on Sunday 19 July 2015
Esther is so sweet. She did a picture of us which is really good.
Esther having durians
06:35 PM on Saturday 18 July 2015
Durian season is upon us and Esther seeing so many stores wanted to try it again. Ernest and her had a try one time after watching a Hong Kong TV drama where the cast had durians. They hated it and it is no different for Esther this time round.
Esther getting ready for her s'more waffle
04:40 PM on Saturday 18 July 2015
Esther getting all ready to dig into her s'more waffle. Look at her expression. So eager to start.
Lunch at Swensen's
01:20 PM on Friday 17 July 2015
We had a good lunch at Swensen's. The kids had fried chicken and a really creative dessert. It was a scoop of chocolate ice cream with strawberry and gummy worms in a bed of milo powder. It came with a shovel for digging. Really fun and creative.
Another 3TB bites the dust
07:42 PM on Monday 06 July 2015
Another of the Western 3TB Green drive has bit the dust. The ZFS pool was running in degraded mode for the last 2 days or so. Got a 6TB drive to replace it and it is working fine now. Re-silvering will probably take the next 5-6 hours. The defective disk was identified using and then the id of the ...
mailbox size limit
07:38 AM on Monday 06 July 2015
On the CentOS machines and probably other distros that uses postfix, the limits the size of the mailboxes. See http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html for the configuration details. I set in and restart postfix for this to work.
West Coast Park
04:15 PM on Sunday 05 July 2015
We went to West Coast Park in the late afternoon where we had quite a fair bit of fun with the playground.