Gmail—everyone seems to be talking/blogging about it, some have managed to get it just by asking, so I thought I owe it to myself to at least try asking here:
Anyone with a spare invitation wishes to help a mate out?
Gopher—being able to navigate to this gopher url is just too much for me to handle, almost makes me tear! Go Gopher!
Thanks to everyone who have shown support and interests in this little hack of mine. I’ve been using it for quite some time now. Despite some minor bugs still lurking around, I really love it myself. This is one of my few creations that I can actually bear to use 
Grab it here: viWord.zip
Update: To make Word use its normal keystrokes (e.g. when you need to let someone else use your computer): Go to Tools -> Customize, click on the "Keyboard..." button, then click on "Reset All...". To get rid of it completely, do the above and remove the viWord.dot file.
The ChangeLog:
e command.c modifier (only cw and cb works for now)x now copies the character(s) onto the clipboard so you could use xp to swap characters.Just chanced upon the PearPC project on SourceForge. It means that soon I, the poor man, too, can run OS/X!
Caught it two days ago when I lost some sleep over an assignment, I hate essays.
Tiff and her mother has just left for Melbourne, so I’m home alone. Well.. except for this: 
Once again, I found myself the victim of the never-ending CityRail trackwork. At the peak of my anger, I wanted to blog out my frustrations. So I whipped out my new phone and tried to use WAP to log on to my bBlog admin area to post an entry. After 2 guesses of the URL and 3 wrong password attempts, I finally got in. All these took an unbearably long time, mind you. After all that, I realized that I just couldn’t submit the post due to some URL error, there goes the text I so painstakingly entered using the numeric keypad (the “smart” input method on the LG phone didn’t help either).
Speaking of phone and WAP, after using the Nokia 3210 for about 5 years, Tiff & I decided to sign up for Orange and get a new handset each for a shared bill of $45 a month on a 2 years contract. As part of the offer, we get to call each other for five minutes free all day long.
After a long period of 56K modem, we’re finally up and running with the Optus ADSL service. A broadband price war is going on here in Australia. Yes, it’s a bit slow, I know. But that’s the way it is down below. (sorry, can’t help it!)
The reason why it took us so long is many fold: first we had to wait 2 weeks for our phone line to be activated, then another week for the ADSL to be activated on the line and for the modem to arrive. Then we had to miss the courier who delivers our ADSL modem thrice, first two times because our intercom was faulty so we couldn’t hear him, and the third because the courier company screwed up. Arse luck.
When we finally do get it, we often get dropped out of the network due to “an unexpected outage”, or so I was told by the technical support guy after holding for an hour.
Just a glimpse of the crap I have to deal with sometimes. It’s not all bad though, we’re making progress, at least the real estate agent got the door bell fixed
I don’t miss dialup at all.
The other day I decided to buy some Lebanese bread (Guildford being a Lebanese town, these are dirt cheap here) and make myself some kebabs. So I chopped some garlic, onion and tomatoes, cheese, a fat sausage, sprinkled them on a round lebanese bread and put it under the grill. Went to brush up, came back and found thick smoke coming out of the oven. Here’s the result after salvaging the stuffing:
Take a closer look…
I learnt that: