Devoid of Anything Useful

DoAU (not referring to the posts I made on s--n--s) is slightly under one month over one year old. Quite a mouthful there, but goes to show that I forgot I set this up during one fine NJRC training session. Or I couldn't be bothered enough.

This also means I have been crapping for almost that long.

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Feeds have already been expo-imported into Google Reader.

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On a side note, I've just realised that only this year I've needed to interact with 3d. Through DS somemore. FML?

22/09/2009AD (Tue) - 27/09/2009AD (Sun) :
- Preparation of feeds to import into Google Reader
- Finish writing script to autocheck Gmail, Twitter and FB (optional)
- Organize reading materials currently in school and at home

28/09/2009 (Mon) - 04/10/2009AD (Sun) :
- Mugging commences
- Stop reading feeds, except perhaps XKCD and Gawker Priority
- Update self on FB/Twitter/Gmail 4 times a day (0630/0900h, 1400h, 1700/1900h, 2100h), max 30min per session

05/10/2009 (Mon) - 09/10/2009 (Fri) :
- Update self on FB/Twitter/Gmail once a day (2100h), sleep by 2200h

Mon - EL1, IHE (GEOG)
Tue - CL1
Wed - CHEM + H
Thu - IHC
Fri - PHYS + H

10/10/2009AD (Sat) - 11/10/2009AD (Sun) :
- Relax a little
- Mug a little
- Sleep a lot

12/10/2009AD (Mon) - 14/10/2009AD (Wed) :
- Update self on FB/Twitter/Gmail once a day (2100h), sleep by 2200h

Mon - EL2
Tue - MATH + H
Wed - CL2


15/10/2009AD (Thu)
- (If I'm up to it) Go take Bio paper
- Celebrate with the rest of non-bio people
- Spam feeds
- Resume normal operation

16/10/2009AD (Fri)
- Celebrate with the rest

It appears that NJRC has sapped my life. HP, Mana, WIS, CON, STR, INT, DEX and CHR all went down by loads.

And apparently Robocup preparation is next. FLL looks fun this year, and most likely I will just be coming up with ideas while the others slog it out.

And that marked the end of my 3 empty years in NJRC (secondary school div).

In the midst of it all, a direction marker was lost, bearings could not be found.

And Chromium received updates. Could have been anytime between this and my previous update, so forgive the lagginess. Anyway, it doesn't seem like many are doing this.

Now there is no need to have the "--enable-extensions" flag, but the "--enable-plugins" one is still necessary.

This doesn't work, but it appeared.


This looks much nicer


So does this.


By the way, good luck to those going to BSC in either Oct or Dec, I could give tips. And in return help me get some magazines from the roadside stall kthx?

This is a problem I had yet to address, but I've been driven up the wall after so long.

Please remove useless query strings from URLs you share.

A very good example is this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWKfYa3oBSU&feature=player_embedded

Its only purpose was to tell Youtube that you reached the page from an embed player, and not others potentially following your link.

If you still do not know what I am talking about, here are a few more examples.

- http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/229204/-Code-Breaking-Quantum-Algorithm-On-a-Silicon-Chip?from=rss

- http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/steel_velcro.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egUDYu_qmL0&feature=related

They serve no purpose for others, increase their length, decrease their readability, add another entry to URL-shortening and Online bookmarking services, and screw up what the website put them there in the first place for.

Of course, please use your own brain and test those query strings to see if they are useless. If they are required to show the particular page you are linking (eg. ?page=2 ) then obviously leave them there.

Another thing is that occasionally, there are also cases when a page can be linked by ID alone. Examples include:

- http://gizmodo.com/5353104/steel-velcro-made-by-germans-supports-35-tons-heat-at-up-to-800-degrees-celcius

- http://lifehacker.com/5352974/this-weeks-most-popular-posts

They can be removed very safely, and the only reason you would ever want to leave them there is to let people know where it leads to. Which is quite pointless since they are usually truncated anyway.

So, make the tubes a better place to be in.

EDIT: Apparently, someone else had written a similar post before me.
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/how-to-save-urls/
Go read that too.