Just got this message in my gmail inbox… special promotion from HWM, HardWare Magazine. Subcribe the magazine for one year and you will get one Samsung 80GB Hard Disk Drive (worth RM160) for free!

Dear all HWM readers,

Enclosed herewith our latest promotion during the coming PC Fair II at Kuala Lumpur.

Date: 11-13 August 2006
Time: 11:00am - 09:00pm
Venue: Booth No 509-510, Hall 5, KL Convention Centre

Promotion: Samsung 80GB Hard Disk Drive worth RM160*
*only 100pcs HDDs will be given away per day
*limited to one subscription per subscriber
*warranty will be borne by Samsung Malaysia Electronics

What’s more? You’ll also get a Kingmax 128MB Super Stick USB Flash Drive if you are the first 200 subscriber, regardless whether you are the getting the HDD.

So, what are you waiting for? Call your friends and inform them this good news!

P/S: Remember, first 100 subscriber daily oh…. See you there!

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In the last PC fair, I subscribed the HWM magazine and got a set edifier speakers (worth RM179) for free! This time, I might want to subscribe for another year too :)

When I try to setup PHP and Apache in my notebook, I try to enable the .htaccess setting in apache’s httpd.conf. After I tried for a few hours (YES, a few hours) at my notebook and google-ing on the internet, finally I found the complete solution.

I record the steps here so that it can help those who want to enable .htaccess and url rewriting in Apache for Windows and also for my own reference in future.

1. Make sure you have setup apache and php correctly. Make sure that you can run php scripts without any problem.

2. Use notepad to open httpd.conf config file. Make use the line “LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so” is un-commented.

3. Under “<directory XXX></directory>” section, change the line “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All“.

4. Change the line “AccessFileName .htaccess” to “AccessFileName htaccess“. This is because in Windows, we can’t have a file with filename that starts with a dot.

5. Save the changed file and restart Apache Windows Service. You can then use the file htaccess to process your url rewritting.

Recently I feel that spam emails are getting smarter. Every morning when I open up my mailbox, I always see 2 to 3 spam mails in my inbox which suppose to be delivered into spam/junk/bulk folder.

I am using Gmail, yahoo mail and hotmail. Here are the statistic of spam emails.

• Yahoo! Mail - 0 to 1 spam per day
• Gmail - 1 to 2 spams per day
• Hotmail - 3 to 4 spams per day

Are spammers getting smarter? Or spam filter become weaker?

SupermanHaze Returns! I smell the haze once I get out from my car towards my house just now. It become stronger and stronger this few days. It’s back!

The haze make few feel sick this few days… make me feel dizzy… damm… must drink more water!

I uploaded my new theme last few days and it runs without any problem (so far).

I also deleted the “Archives” page because I already added it at my sidebar.

I also deleted the “Wordpress Theme” page because I feel the old theme is quite ugly.. hehe.

I also added a “About” page.

Just now when I browse to my “About” page, I saw a Google Video Ads. This is the first time I see this type of ads and somemore it is on my own blog :)

Oh… long time didn’t blog about things happening on the internet. Today I found a nice tool which I want try out, I found it at LiewCF … but unfoturnately, the site keep showing this error message:

DEBUG INFORMATION:
Connect: Lost connection to MySQL server during query

Maybe the site has too much of visitors at the time I visit. I will try it out later.

The tool I mentioned is call “Page Strength”. It is a site that tells you the importance and visibility of a web page. It is like Google PageRank but I think this one seems more interesting. Page Strength use many factors to determine the “strength” of a site:

• Links pointing to full URL
• Links pointing to domain
• Position at Google for first four workds of title tag on target URL
• Age of Domain
• Links from domains with .edu TLDs
• Links from domains with .gov TLDs
• Alexa Rank
• Domain name visibility
• Internal Link Percent
• Number of search results for URL search at del.icio.us
• Listing in DMOZ
• Links found in Wikipedia
• Google Pagerank of full URL and Domain

Anyway, two of the strengths from “Page Strenth” are based on Google’s statistic.

Driving is very tiring…

… especially driving home after a long day work. I’m a software programmer cum tester, I think a lot… After a 8 hours of working hours (sometime more than that), I always want to go back as soon as possible…

… it is really tiring when I’m trapped in traffic jam on my way home, it is not once… but 2 to 3 times trapped in traffic jam (road infront Prince hotel, road in front TimeSquare, Jln Syed Putra, roundabout at Jln Gasing…).

… everyday, I tried to speed up (well my top speed at Jalan Syed Putra is 90km/h and I’m always behind my colleague’s whom go home together at the same time) whenever the traffic is a bit smooth because I want reach home as soon as possible… to have my dinner, relax and watch tv series …

… speeding make me take extra caution. this is tiring also. I’m driving a 7 years old car with manual gear transmission. I need to aware the car from the left, from the right, from infront and from behind. I need to consider the car distance and see if the car behind is too close to mine whenI want to press the break…

… when driving at night, the lights of cars from the other side of road and behind make my eyes tiring also… but I can’t avoid that. I need to keep my eyes open …

… when driving home, my brain almost stop functioning, I’m tired, I don’t want think anything else… So, I rarely talk in car. I already suspended my mind, relaxing my mind, listen to the songs play in radio… I skipped those gossip because I just don’t like that…

… since university time, 7 years ago, I used to be like that. No one talking in the car (since I’m the only one in the car), soft music and… traffic jam …

… whenever I can go back early from university and if there is no jam, me and one of my coursemate will race at Jln Gasing (not too fast but it’s quite fast in that small road). I’m driving my “mclaren” (my grey color Proton Wira), he was driving his “ferrari” (his read color old Mazda model), we played “missed call” on our phone while driving, we raced untill the junction to Old Klang Road …

… I think I spent too much on car. I spent about RM300/month for petrol and RM70/month for car park. Sometimes, I use NPE toll when want go back home fast (when I’m sick or got appointment), it cost me RM1.60…

… What about car maintenance and car wash? I used about RM300++ on my car’s maintenace in this month and RM200++ last month. I was thinking to buy a new car which is petrol saving type. After an advise from a friend with some calculation, it is not worth to buy a new car just for petrol saving…

… maybe I should try to take public transport for a week someday and see if it will be more economic than driving a car in city…

… sigh … maybe I should find more money for accommodate that problem :) …

New wordpress theme again for my blog :)

I am still editing the theme actually because some of the php files are not fully modified yet. Therefore some of the page might look miss-aligned.

Anyway I upload the theme here for a test run and of course, comments are welcome too.