The age of Terabyte has arrived.  You can now get one for USD99.99 with $20 mail in rebate.  Unfortunately, they only ship in the US.  So, if you have friends there who are getting back, you can try to get one.  HDD space are now getting cheaper and cheaper.  The other day, I saw Harvey Norman selling a 500G HDD for RM399, and I thought that was already very cheap, this Terabyte deal is even sweeter.  I believe its a matter of time, before a 1TB HDD hit our shores.  So for now, we can only drool… 

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As Kavi have pointed out below, TB have hit our shores, just the low pricing haven’t…

A nice set of iPhones icons that look rather realistic created by janosch500.  It comes with the .PSD file, so that you can customize to your own. 

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Recently, I changed to my new theme with archives by the month on the right side of the blog. It made the site more accessible to old postings, and at one instant, a new friend find past 6 years of life through the archives. Yes, I have been blogging for 6 years. If you think of it, 6 years is quite a long time. If I had a kid then, he/she would be 6 years old now. In 6 years, government could change, as well as people’s life. It is interesting how I lasted this long. Sometimes I do think this blog feeds into my ego, and that is the basis for explaining why I take the time to blog. At times, the blog was a place for me to cool down, for me to vent, and sometimes, I just enjoy playing with the themes. Nevertheless, I am still amaze how I lasted 6 years doing this.

When I frst started, I didn’t like writing. Writing to me is a tedious job. So, I make my blog a photoblog. If you check out post from 2002 and 2003, you will mostly find photos with occasional ramblings. I had my Nikon 2500 then and that little gadget filled my blogs with daily photos of sights and events around me. I am still photobloging, but the frequency has reduced as I have not that many of nice shots that is worth posting. Also, now I writes more, so my focus is more on writings than photos. During my days of photobloging, I manage to score a ‘Noteworthy‘ (top 6 voted photos out of 300 submission) from Photofriday. It was my proud moment in blogging.

I was first introduced into blogging by Albert. He was doing it through BlogSpot then and I was intrigue of easy self publishing engine that BlogSpot offers. Before that, I was building my own web pages during college days on geocities, if you still remember them. They exist today though yahoo. It was unfortunate that I did not safe any of the pages I built, it would be nice to look at them again. I was building pages about movies, that was my passion at that time. When I got back to Malaysia and started to work, I did not have the time for movies nor my geocities anymore, and that sank into oblivion. A couple of years leaving college, I was eager to find out what my old friends were doing. So, I made and printed a newsletter about what I have been up to. I only made one, a year after that, Albert introduce me to BlogSpot, and my blogging hobby begins. Its been 6 years since. 

Through out the 6 years, I have maintain my photoblog and my personal blog for insane rambling.  I venture into videoblogging at a time, and that did not caught on as I did not had the right tool and it takes too much time to edit a video.  I experimented with audio blogging, some of the web services offer a service where you can dial in through a phone and speak your mind.  It will be automatically be converted to MP3 and post to the blog.

Recent healthy spell has been broken, I am now starting to go down with a soar throat, and the body is heating up. Before long, it will turn into a nagging pain, stoned brain, that function like a tweak and the body will be immobilized (sleep).  That’s rock bottom, and after that, it will slowly recovers.  The entire episode may range from days to a couple of weeks.  Thought I welcome the thought of taking a break from work and rest at home, then again, no body wants to be sick.  Anyway, today the soar throat starts, maybe the vitamins that I drown the body with will help. 

Incidentally, my web host was also down a few days back.  Someone was hogging the server and the host admin had to backup, reset, format and reinstall everything, resulted to a 24hr blackout.  During this episode I found two interesting tools, who is hosting this, who gives you the server or company name that is hosting the domain, and my ip neighbours, who tells you which domains are also being hosted on your IP/server.  I have been having problems with my host lately as the response time for my site was more than 13 second.  That was far below standard.  Many of my complaints did not result to any speed improvements.  So, I use the above tools to identify the fast servers my host has and request to be transferred to them.  My host hasn’t replied, but somehow, my sever now serves wordpress at a blazing speed. 

So, I was sick online a few days back, it was quickly fix, or rather recovered, now I am sick offline, and this will take some time to heal.  In the mean time, I need much rest, I read internet articles suggesting that if we work when we are sick, we get dumber.. judging from my IQ lately, I think I have been working too much when I am sick.

if you have loved luna visual styles, you will want to take a look at this.  Comes in 3 color schemes, Luna Inspirat takes the original luna visuals style up a notch.  krosavcheg have done a great job in detailing this theme out and it even comes with its own set of styler toolbar.  This smashing vector style theme comes with 3 different start menu, a whole set of buttons and a nice font sent. 

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