Archive | 2007

My New PC Setup – Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 – 2GB RAM

So I got my new setup finally and working, the files haven’t been completely transferred yet….not time lately. And it’s bloody slow as the PCI LAN card got fried on my old setup so I have to use Wireless…so copying large chunks of data takes hours – literally.

Anyway here’s the core of my setup..

2.66GHz Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe Chip & Asus P5K-V motherboard.

Setup

This is the actual chip itself – as you can see Made in Malaysia!

Intel C2D

This is the very decent standard Heatsink/Fan combo that comes boxed with the CPU.

CPU Heatsink/Fan

Gone are the days when they didn’t give you one, or they gave you some puny thing you straight away chucked in the bin and bought a decent one – especially when you’ve been using AMD chips like me which you can fry an egg on.

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Motivation..

Sometimes simple words can mean a lot to someone…when I get messages like this it makes me want to improve, to keep pushing and to inspiring people.

Hi Shaolin,

Your Shots are simply fantastic and your work is marvellously awesome. I am so thrilled and happy to add you as my contact. You are truly a legend and a master photographer. Thank you very much for uplaoding such amazing photographs. I really liked them very much . Some of the photos, such as the models photographs are truly awesome that i dont have words to describe them. I have become a great fan of you now. I will await for your future photographs.

Well done Shaolin. You are my hero and role model in photography

Do take the time to drop a note to someone that inspires you, it may mean a lot to them and it just takes a minute.

I do often take time to leave a comment or drop a mail to people who’s work makes me question my own and push me to another level.

I had a really great shoot the past weekend in Genting with Hannah Tan, look out for some of those shots soon!

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Getting There

Ok I’ve just painstakingly restored all the posts I could find since September 10th until now from Google Cache, I’ve lost some of the content of the posts (just a couple) because I was using the more tag…so they weren’t cached on the front page and the individual posts weren’t cached at all 🙁

Everything should be back up and working now! All posts are restored.

Anyhow things should all be restored now – and it was incredibly boring…so it shows the power of taking regular backups. I’m incredibly thankful I took my own backup on September 10th…I can’t imagine what it would be like if I hadn’t backed up or it was 2-3 months out of date.

I made a few upgrades as well seen as though I was re-installing the whole site..I’ve upgraded to the latest branch of Wordress – 2.3 and I’ve internalized the tags so they no longer point to Technorati. I’ve also upgraded all plugins and mods so we should be stable and secure now.

You can now click the tags on the index or inside posts and they will take you to the tag archive page for that tag.

The sites feels a bit faster and more responsive to me after I’ve upgraded to 2.3, but that might just be me.

Do let me know what the performance is like from your side, especially now I’m using a Malaysian host it should be much more responsive for local browsers.

Now I gotta set-up some proper back-ups!

If you spot anything funky or something going wrong/error/weird behaviour/files missing just drop me a comment or use the contact form and let me know.

There’s just a couple of image files I’ve found which are missing and the CSS file needs a bit of tweak to get the comments looking nice again – but I think that’s about it.

Upgraded, recovered and back on track.

Regular posting will resume in the next 1-2 days after I get some sleep. I’ve still got 6 million other things to do! Argh!

Thanks for the kind words, e-mails and comments – I appreciate it!

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Crashed Real Bad

Well it’s working to some degree, half of the images are missing and a bunch of other stuff isn’t working properly yet.

Plus the last time I backed up the database was September 10th so all posts/comments since then have been lost.

I’ve gotten the Google cache from the front page, but those posts I was using the ‘more’ tag…I’ve lost the rest of the post.

I’ll try and recreate them the best I can over the weekend if my original host really can’t recover anything.

Apparently there was some kind of cascading failure, so when the hard-disk failed it also b0rked the backup server…and that was the end of that.

Everything is gone, all my important sites, money making sites…everything.

Luckily I was getting suspicious last month and did a quick backup, I’m not sure if I backed up the files though.

And now this site is hosted in Malaysia so it should be blazingly fast for people in Asia-pac.

Hopefully I’ll get the latest SQL dump from the previous host and put all the images back and we’ll be sorted.

If not I’ll patch things back together the best I can do.

Another lesson – don’t rely on others BACKUP REGULARLY…I wish I had got around to setting up the automated back-up for all the servers accounts like I kept meaning to.

It just goes to show procrastination is the mother of all fuck-ups.

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Return of the Kitteh & I got a conscience?!

Ok so I came home….and I found the kittehs hunched up in the same little space between the grill and the glass door, no doubt if the glass door had been open a crack they would have squeezed into the house again and sat on my speaker in the lovely smelly warm place next to my sofa.

Hunched

So I got a conscience somewhere along the way…and made them a little house from an Amazon.com box and an old t-shirt.

Kitteh House

They were a bit wary of the box when I introduced it to them..

Kitteh Box

Then when I opened the grill they went outside, one just sat in the middle and went back to sleep…so cool!

Chill Kitteh

I put the box outside and poured them a small saucer of milk..

Kitteh

And left them to it, I’m not sure if they were using the box, 2 of them were in it last time I checked, but I think they don’t like it facing outwards..

Anyway when I was hoovering the dust up it scared the hell of out them, so they ran to the other end of the balcony, I turned the box to face inwards then…so I think they are using it now.

It’s pitch black but I can’t see them on the balcony, so I guess they must be inside the box.

Will check up on em tomorrow!

Kittehz for the win!

Btw if you don’t get some of the references in these last two posts…you need to check out I can haz cheeseburger.

And the latest blend of two Internet meme’s Post Secret and lolcatz….we get lolsecretz (your sekret gived us lolz!!)

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Found Me Some Pussy

I came home from work as normal, I’d left the patio door open slightly to air the place while I was out as it’s been humid the last few days it was a bit stuffy.

Anyway…I got home and went to shut the door and saw something on the floor, as it was all dark…I wasn’t sure, but it looked like it was moving.

So I was like ZOMGWTFZ, anyway…I went to switch the light on and came back and found 3 little kittiez hunched up on my speaker stand against my sofa on my curtain tie..

Attack of teh Kitteh!

Kitteh Invasion

They were all out on the stand when I first saw them but by the time I got my camera the dark one had rammed himself under the sofa…he’s shy.

They must have squeezed their tiny little heads under the grill and had a party in my house.

Damn cute this one, he’s least scared of me.

Kitteh did pooped on your speakerz! Sorrehz

Kitteh Poop

Their mom will still outside chillin.

Teh little kittehz was pretty freaked out by this huge hairy gorilla standing over them.

Before they freaked out..

Kittehz am chillin

Chillin

And after!

Kitteh says NOz

Kitteh say NOZ

Anyway they was cool, apart from one…which ran all the way under my sofa….so I had to take my hole living room apart to get him out and return all 3 to their mother outside.

Kitteh saiz LEAVEZ MEh!

LEAVEZ MEh

So now I got a cat family living on me balcony…how nice.

Someone put some cat food there too so I guess they are gonna hang around.

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Kim Ong Natural Light Series

So in the midst of all the strobing I found time for a few natural light shots against the blind with the afternoon sun streaming through.

I really like how they came out, especially this one.

Longing

Longing

Wondering

Wondering

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Sometimes it’s best..

Just to let it go.

Domain Drop

I had a stage of buying domains after talking to a friend quite a lot who quit his real estate job to buy and sell domains, he hardly had to work and spent most of his time playing DOTA and taking cruises round the world.

Especially when he hit a big one and sold it for 10’s of thousands of USD.

He also made money from the adverts on the 20,000 or so domains he owned.

Incredible eh?

I managed to sell one out of all those I bought, I set up various sites on the others…none of which made any decent income.

Google and Adsense are a lot smarter than they used to be.

So now I’m letting all the spare ones drop, I’ll be keeping a few core domains which I have proper plans for, and of course keep the current ones up to date.

But as for being a domain name mogul?

Not for me I guess.

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Happy Moon Festival!

Full moon, super bright and round last night so I took a couple of shots to wish you all Happy Moon Festival.

Moon

Moon Crop

Hope you enjoyed your lanterns!

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Project Sexy Secretary with Kim

Coming soon! So watch this space.

Fierce Style

Fierce Style

Sexy Secretary

Sexy Secretary

Silence
Silence

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