Pachelbel Canon in D - On Electric Guitar!

Absolutely speechless!

New Laptop

My old office laptop was just over two years old. While this may not be considered obsolete by most, as long as it can't run my powerpoint presentations anymore, I needed a replacement. Now, I've got a Dell Latitude D620. Dual-core CPU with 2GB RAM, 100GB hard disk and 14" wide screen LCD display. Wi-fi, bluetooth and just under 4 lbs. Nice!

HP PSC Printer Hard to Install

Jia Nin has an HP PSC 1315 All-in-One printer/scanner. Since I have a new laptop (yeah! yippee!), I have to configure my computer to be able to print with that printer. The installation CD that came with the printer insists on installing all sorts of crap: "help look on the internet for latest updates" and "help print and scan documents" programs. All that is needed for me to be able to print is a simple .sys driver file. Instead of making it easy for me to either find on the CD or download from their website, it insists on installing the above-mentioned crap and blocks my every attempt to even extract the driver. So a message to HP: this is not the user-friendly thing to do to a customer who actually likes your printers. While I will still recommend your laser printers to my company, your "for home and amateur" series of printers need more (or in this case, less) work! Edit: Sorry for the repeated use the word cr*p. To spend an hour trying to cleanly set up a printer is the last thing I wanted to do after a 1.5 hour flight with two babies wailing away; one forward of me, one behind. Surround sound!

Parking Spot Hard to Find

Almost 3 weeks never update blog already. Pai seh, pai seh. Busy lah! Trying to wrap up work so that can go on Christmas and New Year long week-off. Tonight I went into town center for free pizza. Department event, nothing big (pizza! how to be big!!). Parking spot super hard to find. People think U.S. so big, parking must be very convenient. But cities and high-real-estate-value places, tow truck and police just around the corner waiting for you to park illegally. Tonight I saw 3 tow trucks setting up shop in an alley and street corners. Luckily, weekend got free parking in University's multi-story car park. Not expensive actually, just about 80c (about $1.20 SGD) one hour. But not enough parking spaces! I miss the Singapore MRT and bus. (too tired. talk singlish easier.)