Sebastian Republic

My Blog is Now at sebastianho.com

2008-02-09T13:56:00.000+08:00

yupyup... my blog is now sebastianho.com

about the upgrade: http://sebastianho.com/2008/02/09/upgrading/

Sebastian Republic is now replace by oDek

2006-03-19T08:58:00.000+08:00

http://oDek.blogspot.com

This blog is not dead!

2006-02-06T00:43:00.000+08:00

(was not listening to anything-sadly)

Hey! For those thinking this blog is dead, you have good reason- since I have not been posting anything new since the last ice age.

Let me assure you this blog is not dead, but at the rate I am posting it is not far from dead either. It is just that I have tons of accumulated work to do and my computer monitor blew- literally. Hence rendering my computer useless, though I just got a new hard disk for it.

Sigh.... I promise I will post something new soon though, but this is it for now: seeing the pile of work on my desk!

Oh yes, and if you were wondering what was the last few apps I was running before it blew, it was: iTunes, FireFox, Skype. For the record, I am not saying this has anything to do with the monitor.

Songs + Me = Nobility

2005-12-26T16:47:00.000+08:00

(Was listening to: most of the songs from Savage Garden’s self titled album)

I feel so inspired to write today, bursting with ideals. My mental picture is my brain bursting with green slime, splattering all over…and maybe you did not need to know that – I assume I just infringe on nickelodeon’s copyrights..hmm)

Anyway I believe I got this really cool idea; since I usually listen to music while typing my blog I will feature what I listen to each post.

My ‘noble’ reason would be for literature exploration for you guys! See every time you read my post you could scrutinize every word with the knowledge of the song playing in my ears, and that could give you the idea of my mood and state of mind. Thus a striking reflection of me is born.

My REAL reason is to fill my blog space with something. It is still a noble reason though; otherwise you guys will be left with grumbles of my life –not that it is boring.

Either way I am noble.

Whatever!

2005-12-08T15:30:00.000+08:00

Hey it’s me again, (finally)

…I am sick of blogging, or should I say typing out my blog (although it is like only 3-4 entries so far), thought still excited about the whole blogging concept. I mean I got a whole lot of ideas on what to blog, but when I log on to my account- I am just sick of it.

Maybe I will switch to Podcast, that way I do not have to type…then again the whole “Really Simple Syndication” thing, to me, is far frombeing Really Simple. (By the way I couldn’t find a decent free RSS reader thingy, any recommendations – otherwise FireFox ‘live bookmarks’ will do.. I guess.)

Postcast…hmm..maybe I shall blog on this, for this entry, rather than describing my computer hard disk having only like 80 MB of free space! (I bet most of you guys are going like ‘whatever!’)

Well anyway podcast, my favorites are Inside Mac, Ponderplace, Go Digital, Moblog Nation, Polarbear Podcast, KQED Gallery Crawl.

Go check them out, but for now I am just going to hit publish.
Sorry for this terrible entry

KONFABULATOR!

2005-11-05T23:08:00.000+08:00

Hey Guys!

Been ages since I posted…got lots of responds from previous post, although it is not quite reflected on the comments page, go figure.

Okay this entry will be in an extremely laid back language with bad grammar, punctuation…you know all that kinda stuff. Why? ….hmm I don’t know… my reasons are all over but none concrete enough to consider a reason, like how my blog will be structured… lost me?

Anyway my week was rather uneventful offline, but online! was totally contradictory. I found really cool websites and apps!

The first I found was jabberwacky.com. I came to find out about this site while listening to Go Digital via podcast; they had an interview with the inventor I think. It is really cool site or robot or is it a program…hmm whatever you call it is cool! You can actually talk to the “thing” and it will respond quite well and quickly, and every reply you make he will learn, isn’t it amazing! You can actually have meaningful conversation with it! And you will also find out you could also argue with it! So check it out, it is terribly cool and amazing piece of technology!

Wow, I don’t think I ever use so many exclamation marks in my written language, but like I said, this entry language is casual… and somewhat feels like spoken too…agree nor?

Second cool apps I found is the KONFABULATOR! It is extremely similar (I could even say it is the same!) as dashboard, but to my surprise Konfabulator came first! Well for you guys wondering what it is, it is a program that ‘contains’ little apps (they call them widgets) that perform simple task for you, like weather “checker”, dictionary, calculator, time, calendar… the possibilities are endless! Really cool piece of app, though I don’t like it when the widgets get my desktop clutters, hence I set my only to appear in konpose mode. Confuse what I am saying? Check it out yourself at konfabulator.com but I think apple did a better job explaining what it is apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/.

So check them out! Here are the sites again; jabberwacky.com , konfabulator.com , and, apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/

Okay! I think I am going to end it here, go to keep some stuff for another post!

Want to leave a comment? –leave them here, not message or email me but say you are to busy to leave a note here! -talk about irony! And for those people who said my previous post was incomprehensible (go figure and no offence) I hope this post did it for you guys!

Black goes with everything.

2005-10-21T13:38:00.000+08:00

During the last two days I was thinking, ‘what should I write for my blog. I can’t keep it as my first entry forever.’

Hence I began surfing and reading my friends blog for inspiration; stealing for ideas actually, after all ‘a good artist copies, but a great artist steals.’

Then it struck me, eight of the ten blogs (may be exaggerated to prove my point) use black as their primary colour. Mere coincidences, maybe not, as most of the blogs are my friends’. This establishes for a fact that my network seem to like black- a lot. Either that or is just a cool colour for a web site, or in this case a blog.

As for me, my perception evolved. My understanding is at present, ‘black goes with anything not everything.’ But I must say black is really making a comeback.

I owe this to the gaining popularity of platinum credit cards. The advertising of these cards these couple of years gives the impression that black- is a ‘lifestyle’.

This lifestyle is apparently taking flight. If my memory serves me well, the Cannes Film Festival dinner gala was black themed: everything form the decorations to the food was black. Sony-Ericsson and Motorola are selling special black editions of their phones. Also, both newer iPods now come in black editions too.

Even though, with these landmark events, black is likely being just a fad.

Please do leave comments on what you think.
Also inform me if there are any spelling or grammatical errors.

First entry for my impulsive start

2005-10-18T16:42:00.000+08:00

Hi! I am Sebastian and this is my blog.

Unfortunately I started this blog on impulse, and now have the hard time figuring out what to post.
This seems to prove, what a boring guy I am, but I am not- I just have difficulty loading my personal details and expressions over the internet.

I bet many people are extremely pissed off with me right now -thinking why then do I start a blog ?!

Well like I said; it was on impulse...

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2005-10-17T16:41:00.000+08:00

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