I like and often use the chat function of FaceBook that was incorporated as part of their new features in replacing the old FaceBook layout; the only thing that I don't like about the feature; is that it's not stable (imagine the frustration of finding out that your friends have somehow gotten "disconnected" when you're in the middle of a conversation) seeing how FaceBook and how browsers work, the solution would be to have the chat in a separate browser window.]]>
Eversince, I've been bombarded by parents, my older sibling, relatives and friends... to stop. They become fresh degree graduate scholars that did multiple thesis of the tobacco product within a day, indicating in detail the bad symptoms that I'm going to get if I keep killing myself 5minutes with each burning stick.
Posters, televised media, magazines slapping pages/articles on the dangers of smoking... adding particular vivid images of the effects of prolonged exposure - eventhough the intention is good to keep would-be smokers to stop from continuing to make it into a habit... does not bode well for those who already are into the habit... these advertisements simply become ammunition for "scholars" to shoot your nerves down with their verbal battering... and most likely, you'll end up on the tracks to becoming a puffing dragon again.
With all this hopelessness and with so much futile attempts at putting a stop to my addiction, I begin to wonder... when can I stop the habit?
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You got to be wondering if this is another another petrol hike rise queue...
... well actually it isn't...
Penampang Servay Hypermart, one of the first established Hypermart in the Western Coast of Sabah - is on fire...
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If you're a subscriber to AirAsia's on-line newsletter, the Malaysian based No-Frills Carrier (via AirAsia-X) has officially announced another flight path; this time to Melbourne, Australia - traveling from November 2008 to April 2009... pricing from RM99 onwards.Even FaceBook has spam...Spam emails are getting very sophisticated lately, having copied email postings of big companies like Paypal, Hallmark with their notifications to distribute spyware/malware to your computer. Just last week I had a friend complaining of a laptop issue where the windows was sluggish, ask him if he ever downloaded anything suspicious and he claims he didn't... but upon inspection, I detected a few Hallmark card notifications which the links ended as .exe and .scr files instead of a proper link to where the card is located. Common extensions that harbour viruses and such.
In short, it took a painstaking 4 hours just to remove all problems on his system. What's the lesson to be learned here?
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I haven't been writing as I've been playing an online game called Second Life from Linden Studios. It's an online version of what seems almost similar to Electronic Art's "The Sims"... with a few exceptions.
The most obvious reason why would you want to play this game, is the fact that it has the potential to allow you to earn real money. The money you earn in-game can be converted into real US Dollars. As up to date on the Linden currency market, the ratio of game currency to real US Dollar is on a ratio of 267:1. Thinking back, the amount to earn is almost like the golden era of Malaysia's currency exchange level... back in the days where it used to be 2.7.
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Yesterday, the community organizers in Kampung Kolopis organized a Tadau Kaamatan (Harvest Festival) to which the opening ceremony was attended by Yang Berhormat Tan Sri Bernard Dompok. The event lasted approximately two days in total. 
I was doing some crawling on CNN's Technology site, having a good read on some articles before I call it a night... and I got to watching this video article about Twitter by Jessi Hempel in the CNN's Fortune section.]]>
The bittorrent client, Azureus Vuze (previously known as simply: Azureus) is a popular freeware bittorrent client used by many bittorent users worldwide.
Vuze is a technology developed to allow users to share, view and publish DVD/HD quality content through the use of bittorent technology. However, the Vuze user interface (UI) can become quite a resource consuming hog for your PC. This article will talk about changing the user interface back to the classic 2.x version.]]>
The hike results to an approximate of 41% increase, resulting in petrol officially priced at 2.70/litre (increase of 0.78 compared to yesterday's 1.90) and diesel, 2.50/litre (increase of 1.00 and was previously 1.50)... the price is believed to rise again from 3.0-4.0 reaching August this year...]]>
The major highlights of this particular version is that Acrobat will have integration of a wide variation of online content such as Adobe Flash, video, audio and 3D objects into one compressed PDF file. This feature is mostly beneficial to authors of e-books in distributing their online books with digital multimedia content... a much more organized method for authors to display multimedia content in their PDF documents for readers (in other words, everything is in one file) - without the fuss of having the reader lose focus from the document to search the content elsewhere.