kokwai's trails: MSDE/MSSQL on Windows 2003

MSDE/MSSQL on Windows 2003. Another fine example of the X-men greatness and prowess.

Crappy Internet Banking with a fancy name?

Just read about an interesting OCBC internet banking incident that a friend had experience. My reaction was: "What else can you expect from a company from down south?". Although its not an IT company, but from experience typically you will find that

• The site will have fancy design and name which only support IE. I don't know, probably everybody down south only uses and know about IE? Firefox, isn't that the red panda?
  
• The application is most probably written by X-men. After all the bullshit that we read from the media, that they have a large pool of technically skill resources to take up any challenge; well, is in fact bullshit anyway. Assuming that 2%(just pluck it out of thin air, most likely too high) of their population are skilled software engineers, how many can each company there hire? So how do you make up for the shortage of skilled manpower? Engage the X-men! No doubt about it. They are the best!

My Top 10 Anime

I was chatting with a friend about which anime that I have seen that I like best. I came out with a top 10 list. So here it is. This list only represent those animes that I have watched. If you think that there is another anime which is even better than those listed below, let me know.

1. Naruto
2. Gundam Seed
3. Initial D stage 1
4. GetBackers
5. Slamdunk
6. Vandread stage 1
7. Initial D stage 2
8. Gundam Seed Destiny
9. Vandread stage 2
10. Stellvia

Others not in the list that I have watched

• Neon Genesis Evangelion
  
• Initial D stage 4
• Rurouni Kenshin (random episodes)
• Star Ocean EX
• Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure
• Cowboy Bebop
• Bubblegum Crisis
• Macross
• Mospeada
• etc
  

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Google Reader

Google just release another Beta application, Google Reader. It is actually a web-based RSS reader, but by far seems to be the slickest, at least for now. So check it out.

Upcoming Yahoo! Mail

A totally revamped Yahoo! Mail is now in Beta. From what I read from some blogs and review here and here, the new Yahoo! Mail is very impressive. Its been redesigned to look and feel more like your desktop mail program than a webmail. From some of the pictures I've seen, it really made GMail looks antique. Ironically, Cedric recently blog about moving from Outlook to GMail. Maybe he should have waited for the new Yahoo! Mail to move out of Beta before moving.