Vegetarian chicken rice
08:37 PM on Sunday 21 July 2013
Had a vegetarian chicken rice for breakfast today and it was rather good. The rice had the taste of real chicken rice and the mock chicken is rather good. Not bad for $2.50 at the Bedok central hawker centre.
Clouds
08:22 PM on Sunday 14 July 2013
Saw some beautiful clouds from the lift lobby and decided to do some HDR on it. The following is the result.
Drawing of the beach at Club Med Cherating
10:34 AM on Saturday 06 July 2013
Below is a drawing of the beach at Club Med Cherating created using Procreate on the iPad.
Redirecting within a bash script
09:44 AM on Wednesday 03 July 2013
I use bash scripts to tie together different programs to get the results that I need and it is nice to be able to redirect all the stdout and stderr of all the programs to a single output file. In a bash script, you can add the following lines to the top of the script and that will redirect everythi ...
Packaging Java codes into a single JAR
09:11 AM on Thursday 27 June 2013
On occasions, I have to write Java codes mainly for performance reasons and I generally use NetBeans for this. NetBeans is all nice and great but it does not package the codes together with all the dependencies into a single JAR. Enter One-JAR which does just that and it is pretty easy to use. It ...
Copying Excel dates
01:21 PM on Monday 24 June 2013
If you ever get an issue copying dates in Excel where they differ by about 4 years and 1 day, the following article explains why. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/office-solution-clearing-up-that-wacky-date-problem-when-copying-sheets/8106
Developing for older versions of IE
08:56 PM on Thursday 30 May 2013
I have been doing quite a bit of Javascript work with jQuery which means that at some point I would need to check the browser compatibility. I typically develop using Firefox and Firebug and using jQuery means that I can depend on jQuery's cross browser support. That works most of the time but on oc ...
The Cold Storage Kids' Run 2013
06:34 PM on Monday 20 May 2013
We took part in this year's Cold Storage Kids' Run on Sunday. The day started badly with us waking at 0650. With the first event for Ernest at 0725, we scrambled to get out of the house which we did in a record timing of 12 minutes. Once we got there, we breathed a sign of relief as we found out tha ...
Bishan Park
09:45 PM on Thursday 16 May 2013
Was at Bishan Park and did some photography there at mid day. There were some nice clouds and landscape so I tried out some HDR. Flowers and insects were a bit more lacking but there were some nice shots in my opinion.
New server
09:47 AM on Saturday 11 May 2013
After more than 5 years, I am retiring the server and putting in a new one. The new one is based on the ITX form factor so it is much smaller and cooler. Specifications as follows: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini-ITX Case (Black) Asus P8H77-I Intel Skt1155 Mini-ITX mainboard 2 x Kingston 8GB 1600 DDR3 ...