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If you are a fine art lover, let me show you a place where you can get outstanding selection and quality fine arts. The place is Park West Art Gallery. Other than conducting fine art sales, they also do auction throughout the United States and Canada. If you are not from United States or Canada, don’t worry, their affiliate company, Park West at Sea, conducts cruise ship art auctions around the world. Or, you can also purchase by phone. Just call and specify the artwork you would like to purchase. You can choose the artwork framing and payment preference too. The price you pay includes shipping, handling, insurance and Park West appraisal. Once everything is in order, your artwork will be shipped directly to the address you provided. Go and have a look at their fine arts.

Yesterday, final decision has to be made… which technology to use for the up coming system development. As usual, Microsoft will be the number one choice… for me… unless able to ‘convince’ that the alternative is much better… ASP or ASP.NET… C#.NET or VB.NET… After deciding to try on ASP.NET with C#.NET… from no where, a voice…  ‘You don’t want to try Ruby on Rails?’… ‘WHAT?!!!’.. ‘You have to kill me if you want to do that!!!’…

I wanted to try Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 since I got a trial copy during the Microsoft TechNet & MSDN Conference in January… then during the Microsoft HEROES HAPPEN {HERE} last week, Microsoft is really pushing for it together with the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Looks like we have to try it… hopefully the learning curve is shorter 😀

I’m sure all the ‘2008’ versions will be the most talked about at the Microsoaft TechEd SEA 2008 this time 😀 If you are Microsoft user, you should join togethere there 😀

When someone is away from their home no matter if it is for a short or long period, the first thing that will strike them is homesick. And this sickness is capable to infect anyone out there. There is no medicine from the lab in this world capable to cure this type of sickness at the moment, not even the strongest anti depression pills.

Young students who left home to stay at boarding school or to further their studies overseas are the most vulnerable to this homesick sickness. If not treated well with the right method or tool, it will affect their studies tremendously… and sometimes it cause innocent life.

The only cure for this sickness is to let them talk to their family back home. Before, the only means for them to communicate with their family is through letter or snail mail. But today, all kind of phone services are available for them to cure this sickness. Although phone is the most effective tool to cure this sickness, it doesn’t come cheap when the distance becomes further or when the communication becomes longer. But luckily there is a cheaper way to use the phone without worrying about the distance and time… by using phone cards. Phone cards are the cheapest and most effective way to keep in touch with family back home. When someone catches this sickness, suggest to them with this great medicine… phone cards 😀

On Thursday (24th April 2008), I attended Microsoft’s HEROES HAPPEN HERE { 😆 } CONFERENCE at Le Meridien Kota Kinabalu. They presented 2 tracks, Sales Track and Technical Track, from 9.00am to 5.00pm which runs at the same time.

Normally I will attend Technical Track, but this time I choose to attend the Sales Track. It’s not that I want to become a salesman or wanted to start a business… well, maybe one day 😀 Two reasons, first I want to taste what is Sales Track about and who knows what the sales people presented to us later are not what Microsoft told them. Secondly, the topics are more interesting in Sales Track like licensing, Visual Studio 2008…

 
Two of the presenters. They one at the right showcases his 9 devices which make work with Microsoft more productive.

 
Other then the usual food, Le Meridien gives Smarties as their trademark I guess, coz every time come here, they give Smarties.

 
Our lunch was at the pool side. Unfortunately, the sun moves faster then we eat…

On Monday till Wednesday (21st – 23rd April 2008), I was attending a course. It’s about online backup for data centre. The tool is CA XOsoft™ WANSync™HA. It’s a great tools, it works by backing-up the data online through wide area network. But the price is cool, the tool alone is about $20k and you will need a pair for every server to backup.

  
First day, the diagram is still clean…

  
Best part… food.

 
Final day… just chit chatting… everything are OK 😀

If you are Young and Beautiful, why don’t you try to become a model? Who knows one day you will be in Paris, New York or Milan showcasing the latest designer dress. Or join a Beauty contest and become Miss World or Miss Universe. Maybe all those are hard to achieve… probably only in your dreams.

But you can make your dream come true by participating
Look of the Year online beauty contest for anybody… YES for anybody. If you are not one of the winners, your chance is still open because who know you are what the modeling agencies around the world are looking for because they are also watching this online contest.

Give it a try, and give the millions of web visitors from around the world the chance to rate your pictures. This could be another reality show on the web… just like the reality shows on TV.

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Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. (SESB) technician showing the bolts removed from the tower by the scrap metal thieves… (Berita Harian Online)

The biggest power outage in Sabah yesterday was caused by a collapsed of a high-tension pylon or tower in Inanam. The tower collapsed after about 20 pieces of its supporting bar were removed or stolen by scrap metal thieves.

The tower is surrounded with jungle in a hilly area and there are many PTI or Pendatang Tampa Izin or Illegal Immigrants squatters surrounding the area. Your guess is as good as mine…

We have been promised with empty promises of getting rid of these Illegal Immigrants and until now there is no concrete action. And this is the results when the authorities are not honoring their promises. Murder, kidnapping, rape, smuggling, robbery, guns…

Tower collapse causes major blackout
Sabah Hit By Massive Power Cut
Menara elektrik tumbang dipercayai akibat vandalisme
Outage leaves 80pc of Sabah in darkness
It’s lights out in Sabah after grid trips
Vandals blamed for Sabah blackout

Sports which require high energy makes some male sportsman to take enhancement supplement vitamins… male enhancement food? For instant, bodybuilders require lots of supplement food to build their muscle and some says bodybuilders face ‘problem’ which require them to take penis enlargement pills? How effective is the penis enlargement pills, you have to find it yourself… by trying it?

While driving home around 6 something, just after the tunnel at Sabah College, suddenly all the street lights turned off. Ohhh great BLACKOUT!!! Must be blackout for KK.

At the Penampang Bypass traffic lights, the cars are already in deadlock position because of no traffic lights. I turn towards Lido so that I can make a U turn. Reaching Lido’s traffic lights, the cars are in deadlock position too, but my lane still can make a U turn.

In front of me is a white Vigo. If you are a defensive driver, you will definitely make the U turn, but this stupid Vigo’s driver still want to cross over the 6 thick interlocked cars. I was cursing the driver, how stupid a driver can be?.. What supposed to be a short one minute U turn trip now turns into like 15 minutes.

After like 15 minutes then only this stupid driver realize he is actually a STUPID DRIVER. He made the U turn and the rest of the Q did so… everyone was waiting for him to make the U turn.

Reach home and its still blackout. I guest the whole Penampang and KK are blackout. After one hour, the electricity came back. Then around 9pm, it blackout again!!! Another one hour of blackout. SHOOT!!! This is the worst blackout this year.

I hope it will not blackout again… I need my internet now.

On Saturday, every time I load my site, the progress bar at the bottom of the IE never get completed. It just shows three quarter green color and stuck there forever. And at the same time, I got comment from fellow blogger that she can’t open my site.

I immediately try to look for the cause.

But when I tried opening it using FireFox, it load nicely. But I still not satisfied. I suspect it must be caused by the YouTube video embedded in two of my posting. I change the embedded YouTube to hyperlink. It does improved a little bit.

I started removing scripts… counter scripts, tracking scripts… and all other unnecessary or unimportant scripts. But still, the result is still the same.

Then I started re-arranging my side bar widget one by one.

BOOOOM… it works! It gets loaded completely in IE!

One of the widget which contain script cannot sit as a last widget… after shifting it to the middle, everything went OK. But I wonder, it was OK before, why suddenly it can’t sit at the last position?

Next time, if you got problem, try rearranging your widget… who knows it will help you 😀