Netmoirs of A Solemn Rover

So Plymothian, Top 10 999 Prank Calls in 2009

Wow, I have left Plymouth for 9 months now and this article below just struck me. You might not believe that even late takeaways and rare bird sightings are among the "emergencies" reported to Devon and Cornwall police this year. Not to mention pranks that was directed to the RSPCA as well. Over the year, 999 emergency operators have received at least 144,000 emergency calls, and some of them falls in the category of prank just like the ones listed below. For the sane mind, these pranks are...

Merry Christmas, Not

I am not celebrating it this year. Wishing all of you out there a merry one. Enjoy the weekend with lotsa laughter with family and...

Splinter Cell Conviction

Game time anyone? (Kudos Tom Clancy). Damn I miss my gaming days! This game is actually a prequel to the earlier Sam Fisher manhunt. In this one, 2 agents were assigned to go after a Russian militaryman gone bad. Their mission is to stop this Russian guy from selling off those advanced warheads to black market. In this videos, Splinter Cell Conviction's director Patrick Reading guides viewers through the "Prologue" the co-op story of the multiplayer game. The second video is the official...

Carmen In the House!

Carmen is in the house today! No, not Carmen Electra or any two-legged walking Carmens, I am referring to Wordpress 2.9 codename 'Carmen' (aww, sexay)! Its time to upgrade again folks! I have upgraded all my Wordpress powered blogs to 2.9 today and all is fine, except some minor glitches. First of all, after you have upgraded it, some of you might be presented with this error:- "Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLPROTO_FILE cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an...

Transformers 3 Leaked Script

Well, I am not sure how to put this, why the hell someone would want to write a 126 page PDF ebook and 'distribute' it around like a real storyline just to have another party claiming it was fake? Bay and co had played the same pattern of psychological games with fanboys before and when people were convinced it was fake - BANG! Bay did it based on the supposedly 'fake' storyline. I have read this ebook with much interest, and to be honest the storyline is good - too good to be true, but...

Mozilla’s Ally is The French Army

Everyone knows that Microsoft is an overrated bully in the computing world, and to have the French army siding a contender, Mozilla is really an inspiring thing that shows non-Microsoft products are at par with Microsoft's that even a defense force as big (and professional) as French army had so much confidence in Mozilla's email client. At least for Mozilla, a long standing believer in open source, their efforts had paid off eventually by having a strong ally on their side. Thunderbird has...

Langkawi Trip (D5): Leaving Langkawi

I had sleepless nights as I worried about getting up late I guess. I woke up much earlier than my mobile phone's alarm. My flight is 9.25am and Dave's flight to Singapore is 8.15am. I get up completely at 6.30am. Did abit of tidying such as 'disposing' the bed-sheets and pillow cases in the bin liner with Dave. Soon after that we scrambled out of the yacht with our stuff and bundled them in the car. I went to the bathroom for some 'morning call' duties and was soon out around half past 7....

Langkawi Trip (D4): Sail & Mast Inspection

Saturday, 5/12/09 - Woke up early though it was supposed to be a lazy Saturday morning. We had one more task at stake, sorting the sails and sail lashes. Worried that the high noon hot sun is going to toast us for good, we got our assess off the comfy cushion for some proper grilling in the store cabin accompanied by dust and grit. Just before doing the sail inspection, we did some minor sorting out of the ropes on the sail mast. What was supposed to be a 15minute work became almost an hour...

Langkawi Trip (D3): More Wiring Work

Friday, 4/1/209 - As wiring was accomplished yesterday, today is going to be a one man show for the yachmaster itself as Dave is going to work on his engine room alone. Alone as the room only permit one entry at one time. Since the engine is a big boy itself imagine how much space he had taken in that puny small room of a 39 footer yacht. I only act as backup when Dave needed me to shove those cables in. We managed to do some isolation troubleshooting on unwanted cables to the engine. It...

Langkawi Trip (D2): Working On Yacht Lighting Systems

Thursday, 3/12/09 - Woke up early around 8am. After doing some bathroom routines, we went to the marina office to get my own internet access to the marina's wifi. The access cost me RM18, for the whole week. These smart asses does not allow internet access sharing for a single account. That is why all attempts to use Dave's access the day before was proven futile. We went back to the yacht to chill before working. I got to try my internet access. It does not work for me at the beginning and...