Last time when I had my site hosted at host-dot.com, I installed gravatar, then once I moved to blogsome.com, being a totally free (and commercial) blogging platform, the ability to play around with their Wordpress installation is gone - due to the risk of security to their servers.

Now that I have total control over the domain, I’ve installed gravatar once again!

What the heck is Gravatar anyways?

To put it in a really simple term, “Gravatar” means “Globally Recognized Avatar”.

So what’s so good about it?

It’s not something that would save your life if anything, but if you’ve been participating in various discussion boards (forums) everywhere, you will notice that you can specify/upload your avatar in order to graphically represent your posts. The idea is the same - except that when you post on a Gravatar-enabled site, the avatar that you’ve uploaded into Gravatar will be displayed. Should you feel like changing your avatar, just logon to Gravatar and change it - and all your avatars in all those gravatar-enabled websites will be changed too!

Neat, isn’t it?

How does it work? How come I have a gravatar, but I keep getting “?” images?

Gravatar needs one thing to know which avatar to show - your email address. Keep note that in order to have your gravatar image properly shown, you need to input the exact email address you used to sign up with gravatar when posting comments here. Don’t worry, the email will never ever be displayed, sold, spammed or added to any weird mailing list. It is only used to two purpose - validating your comments, and enabling your gravatar

I have the correct email address but yet it doesn’t show!

I only enable gravatar that have been labeled “R” and below. You can read about their rating system. I don’t want explicit images being used here.

Feel free to ask should you guys have anymore questions :)

co-author : Bebe

Note: If you’re looking forward to renewing a driving license or getting a new driving license at JPJ Putrajaya, save your effort, because they don’t offer it there!

I went to meet bebe a few days back, and in one incident after we came home from Carrefour, Alamanda, we realized that bebe’s purse was lost. We searched all over the house, car and anywhere we ever step foot into. After hours of brain-recalling session, we failed to locate the purse. So we concluded that it was lost (even though it is highly unlikely, in our memory)

So anyways, we went to the Dengkil Police Station to file the report. Here’s one interesting view. Honestly, I’ve never been to any police station in my life - yeah, really. So We went in, told them that we’re gonna report a missing Identity Card and Driving’s License. One of them (there’s two officers on the counter) took charge and started asking bebe about the details. Suddenly her mobile phone rang and she picked it up (in the midst of us telling the details) and talked, loudly and proudly to her friend for a while, before telling him/her (and everyone else in the room, and the next room) that she’s on duty and will call later. Shortly after that came another officer from another room, busy SMS-ing on the mobile.

One more thing, this particular small police station is THE place if you want to go clubbing. Why? Because it has LOUD dance-able hip hop music, it is SECURE (hey there are COPs around!) AND it’s dark and gloomy! The perfect place for clubbing minus the police officers. I wonder if it’s the trend with police stations now? *shrugs*

So we asked the officer where can we obtain a new driving’s license, and she pointed out that the JPJ in Putrajaya doesn’t offer the service, and nearest would be in Kajang. We noted the info and then realized that it was already 6.30pm, so we decided to go to the JPN (for the IC) and JPJ the next day.
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Sometimes, I wonder why some (most?) of Malaysians (that I’ve encountered) doesn’t understand really simple statements? Let’s see my typical daily examples:

Typical Example 1:

A: Can I have 3 blank CDs please?
Me: Sorry sir, we’re ran out of CD-Rs
A: Hah? Not even one left!?
Me: Yes sir, We’re out of CD-Rs

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Ever wonder what will happen when you mix Coke and Mentos? A group of MMU Student (that have nothing really better to do) demonstrates what happened.

(So if you run by a sticky floor in one of the stairs in Cyberia Apartments, Cyberjaya, you know who did it!)

If any of you who frequently chat with me via MSN Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger and didn’t see me online any longer, you can try get me at Google! Talk

It’s a new phenomenon of communicating, really. Why I love it?

• No annoying undeeded features - graphical smileys, annoying buzz/nudge, resource-hungry wink/imvironments, basically no-frill just-what-you-need type of Instant Messenger!
• Automatically saves your chatlog in your Google Mail (GMail) account! Yes! No more losing your precious chatlogs every time you switch PCs or your PC crashes or being formatted!:

  

• Seamless intergration with modern browser (by modern, I mean the current mainstream browsers - IE 6 and Firefox/Opera). You don’t even need to have Google Talk! installed to chat with your GMail friends. You can chat right at the GMail screen itself!
  
• Small and useful - It even comes with VoIP calls! (need the client for this though)

So what are you guys waiting for? Switch NOW! :D

I came home from work earlier, and while checking my blog for bugs (I’m still checking post by post, doing small bits of it everytime I have the time to spare) - one of the posts (the MySpace ones) pops up one interesting Adsense Advert, so being all curious, I clicked on it to find out what it is all about (Yes the ads DO interest me once a while).
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Word Translations and Pronounciation keys, as of Feb 14th, 2006 @ MySAS Technology.

Source : Five kids aged between 7-16

Results:

Counter-Terrorist (cow n tir/kaunter):
Somebody who wears helmet and defuses bomb. Also sometimes carries one kind of rifle that you can put a silencer on it, Headshot guaranteed.

Terrorist (they roar/te ror):
Bad guys. Daily task involves planting bomb in de_dust2. Must snipe. Camp is optional.

Bot (boat/bot):
Weird jiggling non-player AI that always pwn the players even at difficulty 0. Also a program that can ‘play’ your online game characters while you are sleeping, so you will be level 400 the next day. None of them knows the word originated from the term ‘robot’, hence the pronounciation.

Benchstart (ben se tat)
Totally misused command. Initially designed by developers to test a machine’s performance. Used here as pure ’speed hack’. None of the players can comprehend what exactly does ‘benchmark, start’ means. All they know is the instant the command is keyed in, everything is accelerated. Including the amount of them getting pwned by headshots from bots of difficulty 0

NoClip (amazingly, one of the words that is pronounced as it is intended to be - no clip/no kelip)
Another abused command when cheats are enabled. Defines how good you’re in game, because not everybody *cough* can fly through walls and give a headshot at high speed.

Noob (knob/nob)
Terms the pros use to diss the Novices. Also used to show who (imaginatively) ‘own’ the game. Also, a direct replacement of the word ’stupid’.

p/s: If you don’t understand what I’m saying. Don’t bother trying! And YES I’m bored and have nothing better to do. Really!

I’ve been using Mozilla Firefox, extremely comfortably ever since they release their 0.8 back then - yeah, way before their official release. One good thing about it, programmatically, is the fact that it only comes bare - and you can choose what kind of ‘extensions‘ you want to add on to extend the functionality of the browser.

Among the list of hundreds of extensions out there, I’ve come to be accustomed with a few, that greatly improves my browsing experience (and productivity):
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