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I finally got a taste of Gmail's conversation interface. My experience so far is only with 2 emails in a chain, but it already shows promise. It's just too bad I won't get to use Gmail for work where I have tons of long email chains.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/30/2004 11:47:00 PM
This is a pretty cool page. It isn't really a blog, but it uniquely simulates a terminal console in HTML. Cute...
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/30/2004 11:30:00 PM
MS has a new search engine: MSN Search. Its interface is similar to Google's. Why am I not surprised.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/30/2004 10:00:00 PM
I guess today is just not one of those good days. Nothing is smooth, including the 3 or 4 bugs I looked at today. None can be reproduced without assistance, that means more delays.
Maybe I should just give it a rest. Tomorrow would be better, since it is the last day before the 4-day long weekend.
Update: I felt better after a quick jogging session. Looking back, the day wasn't that bad. Guess I was just moody for whatever reason.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/30/2004 04:59:00 PM
I hate people who reply emails with 1 liners. It just seems impolite and makes you feel unwelcome.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/30/2004 04:06:00 PM
Wife just got a parking citation today. What luck! She is pretty upset about it, I am kinda annoyed too. *sigh* It is better to be bochap about shitty things like this. Make no mistake, she will try to fight it, but frankly the chance of winning is slim. I think the school is counting on such fees as "voluntary"donations".
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/30/2004 03:17:00 PM
Darn it! Got "arrowed" for a red flag.
Update: The redflag has been deflected. :-)
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/30/2004 11:28:00 AM
What an afternoon.
The morning went by pretty relaxed as I leisurely worked on a lower-priority bug. Then in the mid-afternoon things got hectic as I first helped a teammate work on a top-priority UI bug. Man, it was WEIRD (ok, at the time it was). The debugging experience toppled my years of Computer Science training. After a while we gave up and called it a build problem. And guess what, a few minutes after I started a rebuild, we received word that it was indeed a build problem and had already been resolved. :-) or :-(, who knows?
No breaks for me though, as by that time a separate crash bug had been given to me. The icing on the cake is that there is no reproduceable case. My analysis of the log and trace files helped zilch. I am betting the bug is caused by similar build issues. I hate such bugs.
It is now almost 7pm and I am waiting to hear back from the retest. Hopefully the crash bug would go away.
Update: the crash bug is gone. :-)
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/29/2004 06:36:00 PM
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/29/2004 02:52:00 PM
Following the instructions in this page, I have successfully reversed the Archives dates from new to old. It's this kind of flexibility that entices me to Blogger.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/29/2004 02:23:00 PM
I like my new Gmail account, haven't used it much, but I like what I have seen so far.
Someone else has written a review that's "slightly" more in depth than my 1-liner. :-)
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/29/2004 11:15:00 AM
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/29/2004 12:12:00 AM
My wife couldn't pay her school fees online because the system simply refused to let her continue without a "voluntary" donation. I would say that's pretty desparate of a college for fundings, wouldn't you?
Of course it might simply be a program glitch, but what if it isn't?
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/28/2004 10:40:00 PM
Like Microsoft or hate it, you gotta admit they have many great ideas (at least I haven't heard of the approach shown in the video before). This demo makes Adobe Photoshop Album, which I use, look like crap.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/28/2004 05:27:00 PM
In the video Steve Jobs previews 2 features (out of 150+) from the Mac OS X.5 (Tiger): global search and iChat. I found the iChat demo pretty incredible. So much so that it almost tempted me to switch back to Mac OS. Then I remembered that to use iChat effectively all users must be on iChat, which for my friends means no one.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/28/2004 05:17:00 PM
Why is Gmail so popular? Read this for some insights. Personally I like it for these reasons:
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/28/2004 04:42:00 PM
Got a new bug first thing in the morning. Took 5 minutes to investigate and quickly passed it onto the next (right) guy. The power of Tai Qi!
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/28/2004 11:05:00 AM
I just found out the "hard way"* that it's impossible to email a post to Blogger. What a dissappointment. * Definition of "hard way"
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/27/2004 11:28:00 PM
I really should get started on my Struts homework, it's something I semi-heartedly told myself to do on Friday. *sigh* Internet is just too tempting! I can just spend hours fine-tuning my blog sites alone.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/27/2004 08:46:00 PM
...and I will have a diet Coke, deep fried.- Homer Simpson
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/27/2004 08:30:00 PM
Just came across this site about Netflix. I will read it later since I am interested in signing up for Netflix once summer is over.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/27/2004 01:09:00 AM
A mosquito dared to suck my blood while I am surfing on the Internet?! More so directly on my left forearm?!
Needless to say it got what it deserved. 
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/27/2004 12:46:00 AM
My gmail account is totally empty. 0% of 1000mb! I should utilize it more often.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/27/2004 12:20:00 AM
The repaired GPS works like a charm. It can be turned on and off at will while on battery. Uploading/downloading waypoints, now that it is possible, is much easier than manually setting them up on the GPS. And I think Garmin also upgraded the firmware as well. :-)
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/26/2004 11:54:00 PM
The last few weeks I didn't get to play any badminton games due to various reasons like public holidays, car maintenance, camping trips, etc. Today I finally went for a game, and boy, what a game. The 6 of us played from 3:30pm to 8:00pm, rotating in and out of a court we "reserved" with our group size. I even won a game 15 to 0. :) My left knee is a bit uncomfortable though, as if I am wearing something out. It started a while ago after some jogging, but I will just attribute it to aging for now.
posted by Dakun Lin @ 6/26/2004 11:43:00 PM
