Confession of a Terminal Junkie

The Charge Of The Light Brigade

thomas — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:50:58 +0000

This is a wonderful poem I came across after watching the movie, “Blind Side”. Is about the courage of men not to question the order of their superiors even if they know that the decision will lead them to certain death. You could say they have no self judgement or stupidity but I would say is honor above self, for a man would die a thousand death, than to dishonor their faith.

Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismay’d ?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Some one had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d & thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Cossack & Russian
Reel’d from the sabre-stroke,
Shatter’d & sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse & hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder’d.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Battle of Balaclava)

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Typical Office Organizational Chart

thomas — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:32:08 +0000

Flow Chart described so clearly what workers see in the Office…

When top level guys look down, they see only shit;
When bottom level guys look up, they see only assholes…

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

How Google Works?

thomas — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:50:00 +0000

Ever wonder how Google works behind the scene? Below image is a rough idea how Google works and it just touches the surface as Google’s search algorithm is still the best kept secret. Is amazing with so many branches and loops, results are churn out in milliseconds.

Infographic by PPC Blog

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Creative Tweets

thomas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:11:07 +0000

Once a while you might come across some funny lines in twitter feed but nothing comes close to this. It requires you to retweet three times to see it wonders.

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Book Burning

thomas — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:00:12 +0000

From xkcd.

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Left versus Right : A Political view

thomas — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:51:29 +0000

Ever wonder what is the political debate about between the left and the right or liberals vs. conservative. Image below is the clearest comparison so far I’ve seen on the net.

Courtesy from mkandlez

Full Description can be found at mkandlez’s Flickr page

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Solving GoodReader for iPad when importing Google Documents

thomas — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:43:55 +0000

One of my most used application on the iPad (which I will review later) is GoodReader. It allows us to import in documents of various formats from places like GoogleDoc, Dropbox, MobileMe and the Web for offline viewing. However lately I have notice whenever I try to import in a new document from GoogleDoc, it always ended giving me a 401 Error (Unauthorized) HTML file instead of the actual document. Older documents however have no problem importing into GoodReader. At first I thought the file was corrupted, so I created a few dummy documents and same pattern emerged. Next I tried various other applications that perform similar task such as Memeo Connect for iPad and lo and behold same issue crops up. Only older documents are able to sync into iPad while new documents gave the same error.

After digging through Google Reader, I managed to find the solution. The issue here is with the Google Doc’s new version which was launched April, 2010. Any documents created prior to the new version will have no problem with applications such as GoodReader and Memeo Connect. How do we solve this problem? Login to Google Doc and go to setting to turn off the “Create new document using the latest version”. See the image below for further details and voila everything will work as before. Hope this issue will be solve soon by both parties so we can used the new format with those iPad apps.

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Google hates iPhone

thomas — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:50:08 +0000

We all know by know there is an intense competition between Apple and Google especially in the smartphone market but this is a little out of line and I doubt it is a coincidence on Google’s part on this particular search recommendation result. Try it out for yourself.

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Star Wars : The Old Republic

thomas — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:41:50 +0000

This is the coolest Star Wars trailer that I have seen so far and the Jedi kick ass with her lightsaber.

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Youtube sensation AppleGirl002

thomas — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:15:10 +0000

Youtube has created a lot of new stars over the years and the latest is a Korean name Kim Yeo-hee, aka Applegirl002. She gained overnite sensation with her iPhone musical ensemble of Lady Gaga’s Poker Face and was recently signed up by a record company and produced her very first professional music video titled “My Music”. Are you the next Youtube sensation?

Posted from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.