Mybloglog Error for my screen Name

I just wonder why my profile been edited by site admin, as previously I registered my name as Jason_eng. I don’t know since when my display name been changed to XYZ_Jason_Eng. Is this an error?

Picture showing my name is correct

Msg from Eric showing my Display name as Jason_Eng

I have been trying to change my Screen name from edit Profile function. But the column is disabled by Mybloglog.. So, this is obviously not I who change the name.

now name been changed

send message screen name also different

Started to focus on study

I am starting back my study after been stop for 4 semesters because of fail to commit to the fees of study. This year is going to be a good year for me to start back my study as I just get some time from my company to focus.

I went to meet my new supervisor to talk about the new title for my thesis. I will be focusing on the collaboration tools to define the interface design as I realize that to deliver a good interface design is not as easy as you expected.

Why I am choosing this title? It’s just because I been gone thru with lots of web nowadays, been struggling to design a user friendly, visibility interface design. This is how I learn the interface design is the most important part of the application or web.

I will really focus on this title and deliver by next year. After graduate, I can advance in my career as well.

Disappointing Start for Man Utd

After just 3td match of the session, Man Utd failed to get a win from these match. what a disappointed start.

I can see the progress of the team to find the winning formula is stuck when they gave away lucky win for Man City. Man Utd dominated the whole match, but failed to find the scoring touch from absent of the duo stars Rooney and Ronaldo.

Just after 3 matches, we been left out by 7 points behind the leader. Next match will meeting the Spurs, we need to find the winning form if want to catch the EPL title again. really can't wait for get the first win by this session.

Hotel Reservations

I will be having a few trips by early next year. Bangkok, Macau, Hong Kong and most probably Cambodia. I’ve started searching for hotels, just to see if I’m lucky to get any early birds’ hotel rates.

So I check on Hotel Reservations website, which offers very good online booking rates. The site actually covers a wide range of hotel bookings from US, Canada, Central and South Americas, Europe to Asia. I started searching for Asia’s destinations. The bookings are not only for hotels, but also motels, resorts, cruises, car rentals, vacation rentals and flights.

There are a lot of attractive packages offered from the site. The rates offered for Bangkok Hotel are low. For example, I’ve been to SOFITEL CENTARA GRAND BANGKOK in Bangkok before (sometime around early this year). This is a really cool place to stay in. The price I paid for was about 4000 Bht, but the rate I got from HotelReservations.com is only about 3200 Baht. I am really impressed with the discounted rates.

Furthermore, the site do provide map of the hotel. And it shows you what attractions are around that area, and also the landmarks, with distance stated. Just make sure you don’t miss those spots.

I would recommend all travelers around the world to take a look at the site as it covers world wide destinations. There are services like group booking, super hot deal of the month, instant confirmation booking, flight bookings, and car rental bookings. More and more, it provides information such as destination guides, and road trips near you for the travelers as well. Photos are enclosed as well. But of course, you don’t make your judgment just based on the photos right?

So, do try out HotelReservations.com whenever you wish to travel around the world. Sure it won’t disappoint you!

Things to do before buying graphic card

As the technology is changing from day to day, buying PC accessories also need some input to make sure that you bought a correct product for your PC.

Let’s talk about buying graphic card, if you want to purchase a graphic card yourself, first thing you must do is Check whether slots are available for your new graphic card. This is common reaction that will do by every user.

Slot type will be another thing to make sure for adding a new graphic card. There are 3 types of computer expansion card interface format for graphic card.

1. Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
   PCI is now an old standard dating back to the early 90's and no longer fits our needs in terms of speed/performance.
2. Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
   AGP also is in a similar position as PCI now, base on the performance and reading rate provided, Manufacturer is decided to kill off the produce of the AGP standard’s graphic card.
3. PCI express (PCIe)
   PCI express is much faster than PCI and also AGP. Today, PCI-SIG is working on the PCI-Express 3.0. Almost all of the high end graphics cards being released today from ATI and NVIDIA use PCI Express. This is because of the high bandwidth data transfer of PCI Express.

Please refer to the article for further Information. And also refer to the layout of the interface.

Speed for graphic card and the purpose of buying this graphic need to be determined after understand the slot type. For gamer or graphic designer, they need a high end graphic card to produce results from their expertise.

Budget will be in the consideration as well to make sure you never over spend for your graphic card. And save some money for other accessories.

Not just another Monday

Just another Monday…. Felt tired as usual, I drag myself out of bed and hoping for a heavy rain, car break down, sick, anything to keep me from going to work. I finally made it into the office and enjoyed my coffee of the day to make the day a little easier.

Yes, today is Monday again, and this day is the beginning of the routine week again. If you don’t believe, you see for the past week life has been anything but routine or normal. When you come to Monday, it will be the beginning of every routine for a week

Eventually after lunch, this Monday morning turn to be different for me, as I just got some aim in my life. I plan to finish my master between these 2 semesters. I had been struggling to finish my master for the past few years because of some personal reason. Today turn out to be a day for me to rethink about what I should do for the next year.

Just after a month of my birthday, I began my Monday with the strongest feeling in my life to planning for the less of my life.

EPL kick off tonight

Today is the long waiting new session kick off day. First match will be Sunderland Vs Tottenham Hotspur. That will be an interesting day for the EPL as what we will know soon that what can a newly promoted team can do in EPL’s Opener.

Tomorrow will be my favorite team Man Utd gets into their first match VS Reading. At the mean time while waiting for my house to ready for move in. I might hang out with my friends at Mamak tonight for first match of the session.

This session will be more interesting as all the team signed in new faces, and all the managers are confidence with their team layout. As I always told my friends, any thing can happen in soccer. So, only team with consistency will stand top in the new sessions in terms of League.

How Currency Exchange Rates Affect Business Opportunity

This is part of the knowledge I earn from this company. My company is a semiconductor manufacturer.

Let’s start with the product’s production cost. Company A won a bid in manufacturing handphone chipset for Company B from Japan, and the stated production cost is RM0.0235 per unit, comparing to self-production cost of RM0.0245 after the currency conversion.

The currency exchange rate obviously plays a role here, where Company A might lose the business after a result of a 7 per cent decline in exchange rates for Yen, the cost will go down to RM0.0225 with Company B to go for self-production. Which means a better rate compared to outsourcing to Company A. From there, Company B might decide to cut down the production volume outsourced to Company A.

Same concept when we want to sell a product at ebay or amazon, when RM currency exchnage rate increases againt USD, people will need more USD to purchase the same product. If the product is considered more expensive after currency exchange, do u think people in US will still buy from Malaysia?

Actually for companies that are liaising with overseas market, currency exchange rate effect might be in considerations to attract more business.

TechEd SEA 2007

As a Web developer, I have been looking around for latest tools to catch up with technology today. By September TechEd SEA 2007 claim as the largest annual conference from Microsoft in the South East Asia region, will be happen by 10 to 13 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Tech•Ed SEA 2007 features:
More than 120 breakout sessions
This year’s event will feature even more speakers from Microsoft Corporation allowing you to hear about your favorite technologies from the sources who develop them. Create a personal learning program from 6 technical tracks with more than 120 breakout sessions.

Hands-on experiences
Tech•Ed offers opportunities to evaluate products both from Microsoft and from 250 of our most important industry partners. Additionally, based on attendee feedback from last year, we will be more than doubling the number of Instructor Led Lab sessions as well as introducing a whole host of new self-paced Hands On Lab content.

Networking with your peers
Walking around Tech•Ed are more than 2,000 minds just like yours. 2,000 IT pros and developers to meet. 2,000 opinions to consider. Add to the mix Microsoft product team members and industry gurus and you will immediately see why a Tech•Ed crowd is like no other.

For more information about TechEd SEA 2007, please look at link below: http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/techedsea2007.

Since the promotion is still valid until 15 August, I think I still got time to catch it because dateline. I missed last year event as there is some projects going on, this year I wish I can go and but still seeking for approval from management. So, hope to see you all there.

Pre-Session with a Cup

I've just finished watching the game between Man Utd and Chelsea for FA Community Shield. Man Utd started with a cup on hand this session. Man Utd just won the FA Community Shield 3-0 on penalties after the match had finished 1-1 after 90 minutes.

Tonight was Edwin's night, as he managed to save all three of the penalties taken by Chelsea players. Really world class. Claudio Pizarro, Frank Lampard and Shaun Wright-Phillips were abit unlucky to face Van Der Sar when taken the spot kick.

This is showing a good sign of the return on big investment during summer. But I am still waiting for Owen Hargreaves to show me what he can do for Man Utd.

Really excited to catch up with EPL actions again.

Disabled-friendly facilities to fly Airasia

Referring to my previous post, Protest held against AirAsia, Airasia announce that they will invest RM6mil to provide ambulifts and aisle chairs for wheelchair-bound passengers today. And great to say that there are no additional charges for disabled to use these services.

According to source, the services will be ready by 3 months later. It shown that Airasia really response to the Protest that held.

I am really looking forward to see the completion of the facilities.

Online Coupons

I actually did quite some online shopping these days. You know, buying books, computers, or even gifts. Most of the online stores are able to offer very attractive rates.

I came across this website, named couponchief.com. It is a website that offers online coupons with very good deals. There are a number of big names in the featured stores, such as Dell, Adidas or even Amazon. I did find some very attractive Amazon deals, and since I did do some transactions with Amazon, I think I can save even more with CouponChief.com.

Found some very interesting Simpsons toys with KB Toys coupons. Hehe.. I am thinking perhaps I can get Teevan (who is now in Boston) to bring me back some when he is back later.

Tech skills for now and future

Nowadays, Computer becomes a popular tool for communication between Clients in one organization. Look back to the late 80’s, IT professionals been working so hard to learn about NetWare and IPX/SPX administration will be the first priority skill to develop and catch up with technology that time.

Today, we have been talking about TCP/IP and the Internet, where all individuals can communicate with each other by connecting to the internet by using user friendly tools.
When internet age is taking over, some of the tech skills we need to know or develop. Let’s see from the below:

1. Wireless technology
Even the wireless technology is not a famous protocol to apply in the enterprise, but we have to know that wireless LANs is the most convenience way to connect internet. There will be new enhancement for this technology soon.

2. Voice Over IP
Have to admit that the VOIP is the famous telephone service for enterprise due to the cost and convenience factors. One of the famous VOIP tool is SKYPE. As more companies will be invest in the VOIP as because VOIP runs on the TCP/IP network and IT professionals may need to know this technology in order to manage well the administrator work.

3. Unified communications
Unified communications is growing along side with the growing popularity of the VOIP. The concept of the Unified communications is to convergence of different communications technologies, such as e-mail, voicemail, text messaging, and fax. Users will expect to have access to all their communications from a single interface from a variety of devices like PCs, laptops, smart phones/PDAs, traditional phones. Some of the big names in IT like Microsoft, Cisco, IBM also provide Unified communications Tools or solutions.

4. Multi-platform knowledge.
There was a time where all Windows and All-Unix network is in place, we only have some skill on troubleshooting one particular platform. With Linux is coming huge with the new OS like Ubuntu. We will likely to see some organization deploying it on the desktop for certain users.

5. Software as Service
The next generation of the internet which is Web 2.0 is growing with none stoppable. Software as Service is all about delivering applications over webs. Sooner some organization will move from which is installed personally in individual’s machine will be taking place by Application over WEB.

6. Virtual machines
Virtual machine has been a headline for almost every single organization. Microsoft had been invested huge amount to come out with it Virtual PC, Virtual Server. Since there are multi-platform to be applying in one organization, I highly believe that virtual PC and Virtual Server will be the solution to check the compatible of the OS.

Payperpost.com Approved my blog

What a good news! I just got approved by payperpost.com.
When I look back to few months ago when I started actively blogging here, reading articles from day to day, capturing every single moment of my life and getting them posted to my blog, and today I am approved by PayPerpost.com. That means I can start earning some extra money from blogging, what a good start. Blogging life seems to be very interesting to me. I started learning more knowledge by reading thru articles, see from people’s comments, and get to know friends from the other side of the world.

Just referring to the previous blog that I submitted my blog to Payperpost and I get to know that my blog is not meeting the criteria for blog and earn money when receive the Notification from Payperpost.com. I started working very closely with Payperpost.com’s terms of service and seek approval for my blog, finally I got it.

Nowaday, I always hang around in Payperpost's portal to get some daily updates and I know that if I want to make more opportunities available to myself, I need to improve my google’s ranking and also Alexa’s score. I've been working so close with google ranking and Alexa’s score since last few years, just because I am a web programmer and need to keep track on the latest technology. So, this is the time for me to apply it into my blog to get more extra income.

So, It good to have chance to earn extra money from Payperpost.com starting from today.

SQL Server Clustering vs Mirroring

Let’s be a bit techie today. Here go my findings on clustering failover and mirroring. Enjoy!!

If you have worked with SQL Server before, you should have heard of the terms mentioned in the topic today. Basically, clustering failover and mirroring both serves the purpose of reducing downtime of the SQL Server by automatically failover a database to a backup database. The difference is that clustering failover works at an instance level; while mirroring works at database level. And mirroring is something new in SQL Server 2005.

Clustering could protect you from hardware failures, but mirroring doesn’t only protect you from hardware failures, but also data failures. Besides, mirroring doesn’t require specially certified hardware, reacts much faster than clustering and requires less knowledge to set up.

In short, I think mirroring is a much better choice than failover clustering.

EPL will start soon

I almost fed up with having nothing to do during weekend. With the long wait to hang out with football (soccer) friends in pub or “Mamak” stall which served “Coti Canai” and “Teh Tarik”. And finally, English Premier League will start again soon.

This season's EPL is looking like it will be the best ever for me, with some huge signings taking place.

I am a big fan of Man Utd. This season Man Utd come in with big signings like Owen Hargreaves, Highly rated Portuguese winger Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha ("Nani"), Brazilian wonder kid Anderson.
And will Tevez join the force to create another Man Utd’s empire? Really can’t wait for witness the wonder of the signings and result of the Tevez saga.

Will Man Utd retain the title?
Will Chelsea come back and claim the EPL champions that lost to Man Utd last session?
Will Liverpool pose a threat for the EPL title? Will Torres flop? Will the signing of Torres really impact Liverpool to claim the first ever EPL Champions?

There are a lots of question marks to be answer for me in this coming session. But all will be answered soon!!!!

Catch up with the new season of the EPL.

11/8 is the date for us to see the starting of what is going to happen in next season.

Greening the world by Recycling

Nowadays, people have been talking about the recycling. Are we live in the bad situation of the world? Until we need to focus so much in recycling? I don’t think so, as recycling is part of our responsibility of let our world to be greenly and healthy.

Why recycling? Recycling is important for us to maintain natural environment and helps to reduce the pollution caused by waste.

One of the common recycling activities is collecting old newspaper. Almost every day, if you are staying at SS2, there will be some lorry past by and shouting old newspaper, this is the lorry that collecting old newspaper from us. In fact they also paying back money by giving them old news paper or used paper. As some parties understand that some individual won’t take recycling as a necessity if it is not profitable.

Hence, there are still lots of individual never understanding the importance of the recycling and even treat people who practice it like an alien.

Almost every Sunday, there are some charity party gather at specific station to collect the used clothes for poor. But some public treat it as funny activities by provided used under Garment.

Just my though, government can painstakingly fork out resources for recycling campaigns but they will all go down the drain when many individuals still feel recycling is not a necessity.

Please refer to the link for recycling info: http://www.kpkt.gov.my/kitarsemula/

What is Podcasting?

Technology is growing from day to day. Today, every individual can also posting their own movies or music to the website provided for public viewing. Almost every single day, internet user is posting to online video portal and let the public user to view their video.

There is a new technology to share their video nowaday, which is called Podcast.

A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. A "pod" refers to the iPod, and "cast" to the idea of broadcasting.

Syndication feeds is An RSS document, it can called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.

Podcasting can be used for publish and share Informational content provided by podcaster. Music also can be podcast promote clips and interviews. A lots of Talk Shows being podcasted by news, commentaries. Internet also can podcast their Training as Instructional informational materials. And to be famous in the world, internet user like to podcast their Story.

For those who interest in Podcasting, can look back at this posting History of podcasting that can briefly let us know the podcast history timeline.

finding a place we call home

It has been more than 2/3 dozen of years for me to be working in KL, a place that takes me more than 5 hours to reach my home town. I've been struggling in finding a way to settle myself down in this city. Once, I did think of leaving this place and go back somewhere near my home town for career enhancement, but ended up I was stuck with current situation.


At the same moment of trying to find my path, I've moved several times to find a place that can give me comfort like home. I have lost count of the places I have stayed in.

Now, I am staying with simple electrical appliances, DIY furniture, living hall with all the unused stuff, kitchen with “going-to-drop” cabinet, small TV that need to adjust antenna when change channel.

I always dream of buying a house. This month and finally, I got a node to buy my own house, a place I call it home. I bought an unit of condominium, somewhere near my rented house here. I bought just because I like this location, SS2. And it is very convenient to reaching my working place. Somehow I enjoy staying in condo and this is the main reason I decided to choose this unit after consideration of the location and environment.

Almost every week, I will pass by and take a look at the construction of my home, by seeing the skeleton of the house is built and ready. I am so excited and can’t wait until the home is ready to fit me in.

Thanks to my fiancée for working it out with me, and really looking forward for the house moving event, but I think house renovation event will come first :)

Label Cloud Created

Million Thanks to phydeaux3, I just created my label cloud for this blog.
From the Code for New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud, I got to put my own label cloud into my blog.
Although this is quite old post from phydeaux3.
but i find it very interesting info to share with my friends.
For those who really want to create a Label Cloud, you can visit http://phydeaux3.blogspot.com/ for more info about the Label Cloud creation.