Thong Kuah's blog

Short update. I have started working at ProjectX, more well known for Smaps and ZoomIn. They use Ruby on Rails. No more Java!

Hmm…Today is Merdeka. In fact, it is the 50th anniversary since Malaysia became independent. Half a century, it deserves some celebration, but definitely not in this way. I wonder. By all means, shout Merdeka, but don’t do it in such a way that it rings hollow! I guess the opposition was caught, they should have expected something like this. However, such political savvy is hard to come by, from a party that does not seem to want to form the next government.

I have been having problems with my Feisty for some time now. Since I started using it for work, I have found that even running just Firefox and Eclipse will sometimes cause my computer to lockup and hang. I have hunted high and low until I noticed that … I have 0 swap memory! Indeed, I have created a swap partition but top and free now both report 0 swap memory.

Official Google Blog: First year of Google WiFi Ah, to have free wifi, Wellington. It will be like the Wish project, I’m afraid. :P

The School of Mathematical, Statistics and Computer Sciences (SMSCS) of Victoria has released last years Honours papers (well at least for the BIT ones). One of the papers is the report of yours truly. Have fun reading them all! [http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/graduates/archives/bitt/2006] ps. I am pleasantly surprised at how relevant my paper was to this rails plugin site.

It’s been a while since I blogged but I always find that I get my ideas for blogging when I am walking. That makes it pretty inconvenient, isn’t it? Wish I had a thought recorder ;) Anyone want to suggest one?

My dearest was featured in RedBubble in their latest newsletter (Bubblewrap). Scroll down to ‘The couch’ section :)

Well, Graduation came and went. Should post some graduation pics. See here! http://kuahyeow.blogspot.com/2007/08/graduation.html

Well, there’s been two episodes of the Tale of the White Lion. (Episode 1, Episode 2). Head on over to have a look!

If like me, after a long week at work, you find yourself typing in a ubuntu terminal: sudo chown mail /[I’ll explain why later] Then you are in for a whole heap of trouble, because, inexplicably, sudo now does not work, instead, it complains about /var/run/sudo not owned by uid 0 (root), but by uid 8, which I presume to be the user mail. By the way, all contents of folder ‘var’ is now under the dominion of the unholy ‘mail’ user.