Lieutenant Colonel

BigBang upgraded to Rank 5th today! just half a day slower than ZYX but am catching up ^^ previously was 1/2 days slower....next time ill Rank 6 first! w00t

Level: 11
Rank: #5 Lieutenant Colonel
Duty Done: 3784
Battlefield Done: 485

Aiming: 10,509.0133 <---- training this now
Power: 14,067.4065
Speed: 10,057.1793
Defence: 10,029.5438
Total: 44,663.1429

[Define] Technophile

was reading newspaper and came across this word, so I thought of looking it up... the dictionary.com app in mobile dont have this definition, so i wiki-ed it ^^

Technophilia refers generally to a strong enthusiasm for technology, especially new technologies such as personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones and home cinema. The term is used in sociology when examining the interaction of individuals with their society, especially contrasted with technophobia.

Technophilia and technophobia are the two extremes of the relationship between technology and society. The technophobe fears or dislikes technology, often regarding some or all technology with fear. This may be as a consequences of fear of change, a prior catastrophic experience with technology or because it may lead to a process of dehumanization. The technophile sees most or all technology as positive, adopting technology enthusiastically, and seeing it as a means to potentially improve life and combat social problems.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technophilia

Training with Snow Berry (1000 Emo)

You have gained 1,223.7008 more power by training it 122 times.
You have gained 152.0096 more power by training it 15 times.

BigBang Balanced Stats ^^

Battle stats
Aiming: 10,024.2141
Power: 10,081.8467 <---- gonna train this to 100k now =)
Speed: 10,057.1793
Defence: 10,029.5438
Total: 40,192.7839

BigBang - 40k total!

Battle stats
Aiming: 10,024.2141
Power: 10,081.8467
Speed: 9,917.3647
Defence: 10,029.5438
Total: 40,052.9693

Duty Done: 3647
Battlefield Done: 453

Google 101: Tips to search effectively using query language

Basic Usage:

* Use quotation marks ” “ to locate an entire string.
eg. “bill gates conference” will only return results with that exact string.
* Mark essential words with a +
If a search term must contain certain words or phrases, mark it with a + symbol. eg: +”bill gates” conference will return all results containing “bill gates” but not necessarily those pertaining to a conference
* Negate unwanted words with a -
You may wish to search for the term bass, pertaining to the fish and be returned a list of music links as well. To narrow down your search a bit more, try: bass -music. This will return all results with “bass” and NOT “music”.

General Tips:

* site:www.cyberwyre.com
This will search only pages which reside on this domain.
* related:www.cyberwyre.com
This will display all pages which Google finds to be related to your URL
* link:www.cyberwyre.com
This will display a list of all pages which Google has found to be linking to your site. Useful to see how popular your site is
* spell:word
Runs a spell check on your word
* define:word
Returns the definition of the word
* stocks: [symbol, symbol, etc]
Returns stock information. eg. stock: msft
* maps:
A shortcut to Google Maps
* phone: name_here
Attempts to lookup the phone number for a given name
* cache:
If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, cache:www.cyberwyre.com web will show the cached content with the word “web” highlighted.
* info:
The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page. For instance, info:www.cyberwyre.com will show information about the CyberWyre homepage. Note there can be no space between the “info:” and the web page url.
* weather:
Used to find the weather in a particular city. eg. weather: new york

Advanced Tips:

* filetype:
Does a search for a specific file type, or, if you put a minus sign (-) in front of it, it won’t list any results with that filetype. Try it with .mp3, .mpg or .avi if you like.
* daterange:
Is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
* allinurl:
If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the url.
* inurl:
If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word “google” in their url, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the “inurl:” and the following word.
* allintitle:
If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the title.
* intitle:
If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word “google” in their title, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the “intitle:” and the following word.
* allinlinks:
Searches only within links, not text or title.
* allintext:
Searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title.
* bphonebook:
If you start your query with bphonebook:, Google shows U.S. business white page listings for the query terms you specify. For example, [ bphonebook: google mountain view ] will show the phonebook listing for Google in Mountain View.
* phonebook:
If you start your query with phonebook:, Google shows all U.S. white page listings for the query terms you specify. For example, [ phonebook: Krispy Kreme Mountain View ] will show the phonebook listing of Krispy Kreme donut shops in Mountain View.
* rphonebook:
If you start your query with rphonebook:, Google shows U.S. residential white page listings for the query terms you specify. For example, [ rphonebook: John Doe New York ] will show the phonebook listings for John Doe in New York (city or state). Abbreviations like [ rphonebook: John Doe NY ] generally also work.

Source...
http://www.cyberwyre.com/data-mining-using-google/

Articles : Ins and Outs of Using Gadgetry

DAVID POGUE, On Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:43 SGT

Every time a reader asks me a basic question, struggles with a computer or lets a cellphone keep ringing at a performance, I have the same thought: There ought to be a license to use technology.

I’m not trying to insult America’s clueless; exactly the opposite, in fact. How is the average person supposed to know the essentials of their phones, cameras and computers? There’s no government leaflet, no mandatory middle-school class, no state agency that teaches you some core curriculum. Instead, we muddle along, picking up scattershot techniques as we go. We wind up with enormous holes in our knowledge.

This week, for example, a reader asked me about those weird, square, pixelated black-and-white bar codes that are cropping up on billboards, movie posters, signs, magazine ads and business cards. Nobody ever bothered to explain them. (They’re QR codes — quick response bar codes. You can scan them with your iPhone’s or Android phone’s camera, using a special app that translates it into an ad or takes you to a related Web page.)

That interaction made me realize that it’s time to publish the first installment of what should be the Big Book of Basic Technology Knowledge — the prerequisite for using electronics in today’s society. Some may seem basic, but you’ll probably find at least a couple of “I didn’t know thats!” among them.

Cellphones

• Searching for a signal scarfs up battery juice appallingly quickly. Turn your phone off, or put it into Airplane Mode, before you travel out of cellphone range — for example, on a plane or, for AT&T users, Manhattan and San Francisco.

• When you need the phone number, address or directions for any commercial establishment, call 800-BING-411 for an amazingly good voice-activated agent. (Thank you, Microsoft.)

• You can skip the inane 15-second voice-mail instructions when leaving a message (“To page this person, press 5”) — if you know your friend’s cellphone carrier. If it’s Verizon, press * to cut directly to the beep. AT&T or Sprint, press 1. T-Mobile, press #. (Better yet: Do the world a favor and add this trick to your own greeting: “To cut to the beep, press 1.”)

• If you travel overseas, you may return to a smartphone bill for $5,000 or more, thanks to the staggering international Internet fees. (You might not even know your phone is online — if it checks e-mail every 15 minutes, for example.) Despite many well-publicized horror stories, some people still don’t realize they should call the cellphone company before traveling to buy a special temporary overseas plan.

Cameras

• The half-press trick eliminates the frustrating delay when you press a pocket camera’s shutter button. Frame your shot, then half-press the shutter button. The camera beeps when it has locked focus — and that’s the time-consuming part. When pushed the rest of the way down, you snap the picture instantly. No lag.

• Your flash is useless if the subject is more than about eight feet away. Turn it off. (This means you, concertgoers and football fans.)

• If you erase photos from your memory card accidentally, you can still recover them if you haven’t used the card since. For about $30, you can download memory-card recovery programs; Google “memory card recovery” to find them.

App Phones

• On the iPhone, the camera doesn’t snap the photo until you release the on-screen shutter button. That’s good to know if you want a steady, blur-free shot. Frame the shot with your finger on the button, then snap the photo by lifting off the screen instead of tapping it.

• On iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Palm/H.P. phones, tap the Space bar twice at the end of a sentence. You get a period, a space and a capitalized next letter, without hunting for punctuation keys.

• Also on those phones, you can type dont, wont, youre, didnt and so on. The phone adds the apostrophe to those automatically. (But you’ll have to learn the difference between it’s and its.)

• On a BlackBerry, hold a letter key down to capitalize it. The Web

• You can press Alt+D to highlight the Address bar at the top of your Web browser. Without touching the mouse, type the site name you want.

• You don’t have to type “http://www” into your Web browser. Just type “nytimes.com” or “dilbert.com,” for example. In Safari or Firefox, you can even omit the “.com.” In Internet Explorer, you can press Ctrl+Enter to add “.com,” or Ctrl+Shift+Enter for “.org.”

• You can tap the Space bar to scroll down by one screenful. Add the Shift key to scroll back up again. (You can also hit the Page Up/Page Down keys, if you have them.)

• When you’re filling an order form, you don’t have to slide six miles down the pop-up menu to choose your state. Instead, type the first letter to select it without the mouse. (If you get the wrong state, press the same key again. For example, press C once for California, again for Colorado and a third time for Connecticut.)

• When you get an error message — in a program, on your smartphone, on your tablet — search it on Google. You’ll find out what it means instantly.

• If you’re trying to paste some ridiculously long Web address where it would be confusing to read (or impossible to fit, as on Twitter), visit a site like Tinyurl.com or Bit.ly. These free sites convert long addresses into very compact ones.

Editing Text

• You can double-click a word to highlight it. (You don’t have to drag the mouse across it, in other words.) You can triple-click a word to select the entire paragraph.

• When you see highlighted text — in your word processor, for example, or in a Web browser address bar — you don’t have to delete it first. Just start typing.

• Sick of how Word automatically creates clickable links, boldface words, indented bulleted or numbered lists and other formatting as you type?

The on/off switches for these features exist, but they’re well hidden. In Word 2010 (Windows), open the File menu; click Options, Proofing, AutoCorrect Options, then AutoFormat Options. On the Mac (Word 2011), open the Tools menu; click AutoCorrect, then AutoFormat As You Type.

Mac Specials

• When you buy something online, don’t waste paper by printing the confirmation page. Instead, choose Print, and from the PDF pop-up menu, choose “Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder.” You get a beautiful PDF copy stashed in Documents, in a folder called Web Receipts.

• You can view most documents without opening a program to do it. At the desktop, highlight the icon and then tap the Space bar — a fantastic way to preview photos, but also great for Office documents, PDF files, movies, sounds and so on.

• Press Command-Delete to put a highlighted icon into the Trash.

Windows Specials

• When you want to send a file to someone, right-click its icon; from the shortcut menu, choose Send to Mail Recipient. Windows thoughtfully creates an outgoing e-mail message with the file attached. (If it’s a photo, Windows even offers to let you shrink them down to reasonable e-mailable size.)

• Ever wonder about the Windows-logo key? It sets off a host of useful functions: press it with F for Find, with D to see the desktop with all windows hidden, with L to lock the screen while you wander off to get coffee, and so on.

• You don’t have to pay for antivirus and anti-spyware software, year after year. Microsoft offers a perfectly good free security program.

All right, there’s a start. There are more waiting for you at nytimes.com/pogue.

Here’s hoping that your tech knowledge is just a little less sketchy.

E-mail: pogue@nytimes.com

Source : http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/Ins-and-Outs-of-Using-nytimes-2870919015.html?x=0&.v=1

Top [589347] !

Congratulations! You upgraded your level to 27!

Speed: 2,465.7807
Strength: 100,382.1455
Defense: 329.3832
Dexterity: 25,113.5490
Total: 128,290.8584

BigBang [2100] !!!

Battle stats
Aiming: 10,024.2141
Power: 10,081.8467
Speed: 5,503.6025
Defence: 10,029.5438
Total: 35,639.2071

Duty Done: 3439
Battlefield Done: 410

STA : 30k stats!

Battle stats
Aiming: 7,637.0393
Power: 7,274.8749
Speed: 5,060.6620
Defence: 10,029.5438
Total: 30,002.1200

w00t!

and got Rank 4 Major today! w00t

Age: 59 days
Level: 10
Rank: #4 Major
Duty Done: 3215
Battlefield Done: 361

BigBang [2100] update

Age: 50 days
Level: 9
Rank: #3 Captain
Duty Done: 2905
Battlefield Done: 300
Rescued: 52

Battle stats
Aiming: 1,069.2648 - training this now
Power: 6,647.8254
Speed: 5,060.6620
Defence: 10,029.5438
Total: 22,807.2960

Remarks:
- hit 10k defence
- min. stats 1k!

now gonna train my offensive stats already.mmm power i like, see what total will i get after 100 days

King of Cakes : Baumkuchen

My sister was teling me this morning about the newly opened cake shop at the basement of Takashimaya, she knew this because it was so famous in Japan, but it seems to have originated from German though (ironic?)

"Baumkuchen"

pronounced 'bowm-koo-khehn'

Description:
A German specialty dubbed the "king of cakes," Baumkuchen is particularly popular at Christmastime. This tall dessert is comprised of many thin cake layers that resembles a tree's growth rings. Baumkuchen translates as "tree (baum) cake (kuchen)." It takes a master baker to make this labor-intensive cake in the traditional way, which is to spoon a sponge cake batter over a revolving oven spit, one layer at a time, browning each layer before adding the next. Today, other pans are sometimes used; one method is to brush a thin layer of batter onto the bottom of the springform pan, bake it for 2 to 3 minutes, then brush on another layer of batter and bake, and so on. Baumkuchen is tradionationally enrobed in a thin chocolate glaze, though vanilla or other flavors may be used.

Courtesy from : Food Lover's Companion Fourth Edition; Barrons, 2007; p. 49





Might wanna check it out one day. Price for small one around 8dollars and medium one around 14dollars-ish. ^^ ahh...food baby

Warning:-
- cant refrigerate once open, once refridgerate, thats it, the cake loses its moisture and won't taste so nice anymore..

Cake makes a good house-warming gift by the way.

sta : 20k

BigBang hits 20k total today!

Battle stats
Aiming: 1,006.6544
Power: 6,647.8254
Speed: 5,060.6620
Defence: 7,339.6879
Total: 20,054.8297

The Good Old Times

Saw this on someone's torn's profile and found it quite interesting and worthy to be on my blog ^^

"First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open at the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in them, but we weren't overweight because.......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY , no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meat!

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT.

Our teachers used to hit us with belts or canes and gym shoes and bullies always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like Kiora and Blade and Ridge and Vanilla

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were."

Source : http://www.torn.com/profiles.php?XID=1328613



Ahhh...the good old days as they say =) but still i'd prefer technology

sta stats

was at fed a while due to stupid arcade games zzz but now am out w00t~

Aiming: 1,006.6544
Power: 6,647.8254
Speed: 5,060.6620
Defence: 5,485.9777 ---> training this now
Total: 18,201.1195

Me [25091985]

I tweet
I blog
I (still) write diaries
I scrapbook
I play text-rpg

And I'm not ashamed to mention all those above. Lol

(Means nothing much to do online since I'm not a hardcore gamer)

60's Food Street

Went to Orchard last Saturday and came across this...



Another 60's themed food fare! Seems like it has been a trend in Singapore nowadays to bring back the good old dining ala 60's lol. Anyways, I'm probably might try this place out someday, not that soon though. By the way, it is very easy to locate this place (just opposite Orchard Central)

Rant!

I wanna rant! But im the type who types stuffs halfway then my mind would go blank already. Zzz. A lot in my mind during shower times earlier. But now all vividly gone. Perhaps this is the perfect reason why I couldn't pursue in a career in writing.

Hurmmm.

Blogging Ideas..

Happen to saw this list on someone's blog...

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 10 interesting facts about yourself.
Day 02- Favourite super hero and why
Day 03- A habit that you wish you didn’t have.
Day 04- List 5 songs that represent your life’s soundtrack.
Day 05- A picture of somewhere you’ve been to and wish you could stay.
Day 06- A hobby you have.
Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you.
Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why.
Day 09- Something/someone you’re proud of.
Day 10- A story about a past relationship.
Day 11- A picture of something you dislike.
Day 12- A picture of your room; don’t cheat by cleaning it. Share a secret.
Day 13- A picture of you and your family
Day 14- A picture of something you ate and 10 confessions.
Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle; share the first 10 songs that play.
Day 16- Something you could live without.
Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why.
Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have.
Day 19- Nicknames you have; how or why you have them.
Day 20- If you had 3 wishes, what would they be.
Day 21- Share a picture from your day.
Day 22- What makes you different from everyone else.
Day 23- A letter to your parents.
Day 24- Top 10 favourite food.
Day 25- What you would find in your bag.
Day 26- Places you want to visit before you die.
Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge?
Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned.
Day 30- A picture of you today and .

I prolly will or will not follow it. Perhaps a little tweak here and there by myself (Since I love tweaking stuffs) Lol

Where I Sit?

wanted to sit on the sofa but...



They are the bosses at home =.=