The Salocin.TEN Virtual Place!

I got this bunch of pictures from a friend via the good old forwarded loop e-mail, and was thinking "Why didn't I think of that?"

I'll just let the slideshow below do the talking. Pretty useful and practical product design. Aesthetic appeal is there too, except for the microphone-shaped bathroom sponge.

They were shown on Ebaumsworld before, but are now buried under tonnes of new media. So here they are...

Happy Thanksgiving to the visitors from the United States and Europe.

Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends.

Alright, now with that out of the way, I have noticed a new trend in the current continuous flow of the spam e-mails that are thrown into the Spam folder.

They are taking on a Christmas twist, telling me to be prepared for Christmas night???

Opening them reveal the "Christmas themed" version of the usual spam about the enlargement of at least some portion of the human body.

However, this time they themed it to give the enlarged portion as "a gift of love".

Not a nice way, other than the many Christmas concerts and events that are about to take place in the coming month! More information by tonight!

You may have noticed a new button on the right. It is a special teleporter that takes you to the best virtual place land provider I have ever seen. Lots of land, plenty of open roads. Also,you get little goodies from them like calendars, stickers, car stickers, discounts for new things or even land expansions!

So try that and you'll be amazed!

Have a Merry Christmas season. Tchaikovsky did it well with Nutcracker Suite. Charles Dickens made it emotional and full of morals with "A Christmas Carol". Don't be a Scrooge! Which is basically almost all of us. Realize the ones in need don't ask for much. Appreciate that.

Even though I won't be participating in the ongoing Startup Camp, I do have quite a few new things to be implemented right here.

Some of them may be noticeable already. Things being worked on...

1. A sharper focus on social networking. You might see the "Login with Facebook" button on the side. That's a special security kiosk integrated with the awesome Facebook system. That's the second gentle step.
2. The first gentle step was slight integration with the YouthSays system. Very Web 2.0 as the say.
3. Faster materializing and teleportation system. With lots more space and width to accomodate larger crowds.
4. A special service to generate a special thing for a special device's compatibility. More information on this. Sneak previewers who spread it early will be scolded nicely. This service shall sit on its own somewhere in the cyber of space.
5. Possible shift back to the big old Microsoft-powered system. Some of you loved the now demolished Purportals NicDotNET Virtual Base, as it was called then. I know that, and since I now work the Microsoft platform again, I have come to this defining "hmm" moment, whether to continue with this awesome system or go back to the Microsoft-powered system, which was pretty good too.

Startup Camp KL 08 is going to be the largest unconference for entrepreneurs and startups in Malaysia. Over 300 entrepreneurs from all walks of life and sectors are expected to congregate in two full days of ideas exchange and making connections. Startup Camp is held in conjunction with the Global Entrepreneurship Week and it will be on the only National Level GEW event.

It will be on 22nd and 23rd November. Being an unconference, this event is organized by participants for participants. There will be no keynotes address, no special guest and no long boring lectures. It will be jam packed with new ideas and opportunities. If this is your first time attending an unconference, be prepared, for this is an ultra casual event. For Malaysia's very first Startup Camp. We have divided it into 3 tracks.

These tracks comprises of the General Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurs and Technopreneurship. We have allocated slots of 45 minutes for the participants to conduct their sessions. The session type range from discussion to presentation to round tables to games to anything you can think of. For those participants who wish to contribute a session can book their session at our Wiki.

As for the rest of the participants, we all have two crucial tasks: -

 Number 1. Participants should be actively participating in the sessions and share with others. You can share with your friends details about startup camp before the event or you can share what you learn from startup camp after attending it.

Number 2. Vote with your feet. Do remember you can vote for each sessions with your feet. If you find you cannot contribute to the sessions or you cannot add value to yourself or the rest in the session, it is polite to walk out and drop in to another session. If you do not find session that you are interested, you can always add on the board to start and impromptu session.

Details of Startup Camp KL 2008: -

Date: 22nd and 23rd November 2008

Time: 9 am to 8pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Venue: Plug and Play Center @Level 7, The Gardens at Mid Valley Megamall, South Tower.

Hmm, now about two months into my new Microsoft-powered job, things are going pretty okay.

However, there are multiple things which I miss from the now good ol' days and here they are in geek and digital art speak: -

Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, Fedora, Kubuntu, KDE, Gaim, Kopete, K3B, awk, cd, chmod, mkdir, pico, vi, open source, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, touch, make, makefile, ./configure, make install, fstab, ping, ifconfig, bind, ssh, chown, top, Redhat, Java, C, bash, ksh, csh, gnu, gdm, Ruby on Rails (woohoo!), Macromedia, Adobe, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, onclick, onmouseover, onmousedown, onload, javascript, dhtml, crop, dodge, burn, wipe, fade, lasso, VMWare, PowerBuilder (whee!), MySQL, PHP, PuTTy, WinSCP.

There are many more that I'll pen in here in subsequent postings.

I wonder how is the cute chick from the travel firm who interviewed me way back in 2006 for a ColdFusion job doing (I did some study back then and I momentarily liked it, though I did not get the job).  Also the 3 chicks in the multinational electronics factory who interviewed me in 2003.

Gosh. SQL Integration Services is quite interesting. It's like a mashup application creator in Visual Studio!

So are Stored Procedures, which I did touch on in 2002 during Marappan Raju's SQL undergrad class. I still remember the tutor's name! Hard coding SQL queries into the server is an idea that rocks the MySQL world.

Oh yeah. The Startup Camp is starting real soon! Hope you have all registered. Registration is free but needed. More details here. Pretty good if you are into being your own boss and running a business, which is totally not a bed of roses.

So, the remote e-diary writing thing can't connect into here?

Shame!

Which is why I couldn't write here for quite a while!

Not to worry, this thing shall be updated the old way. Directly!

Coming up, things that I missed.

Warning, this post may be offensive to some persons.

This is really interesting. In India those days milk suppliers will take their cows to the houses to whom they sell milk.They would milk the cow then and there and supply to the house hold. It was cumbersome to take the calf along,so they used to take a stuffed calf to create an impression so that cow would allow to be milked.

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only
orphans' that could be found quickly were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops?

Take a look...you won't believe your eyes!!

Now, please tell me one more time... Why can't the rest of the world get along?

'Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.'

An absolutely Brilliant Joke, ENJOY!!!

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods.  
She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.  

The frog said to her, 'If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes.'  
The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, 'Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes.  

Whatever you wish for, your husband will get ten times of it!' The woman said, 'That's okay.'  

For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world.  
The frog warned her, 'You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world, an Adonis whom women will flock to'.  
The woman replied, 'That's okay, because I will be the most beautiful woman and he will have eyes only for me.'  
So, KAZAM-  
she's the most beautiful Woman in the world!  

For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world.  
The frog said, 'That will make your husband the richest man in the world. And he will be ten times richer than  
you. '  
The woman said, 'That's okay, because what's mine is his and what's his is mine.'  
So, KAZAM- she's the richest woman in the world!  

The frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, 'I'd like to have a mild heart attack.'  

Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don't mess with them.  

Attention female readers:  
This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue feeling good!  

Male readers: Please Read More...