HP 810C DeskJet Cartridge
I have an old Hewlett Packard (HP) 810C DeskJet which I have not been using for a long time. Recently, I was seeing a need to print some color name cards so I took out the printer and connected it to my Apple Mac Mini. It still works but two colors have dried up. I called a few vendors but could not find the cartridges for it.
I came to Cartridge Finder and found the cartridges for HP 810C DeskJet without any effort. CartridgeFinder.com‘s user friendly interface lets you easily figuring out which cartridges are required for more than 10,000 different models of printer, copier, and fax machines.
This site also searches PriceGrabber.com’s merchant listings to find you the best deals to save you time and money.
Mobile Marketing
Have you ever received a SMS or MMS for marketing some products or services on your mobile phone? I have received many recently. Many are not local origin.
Technologies such as Internet and mobile phone services such as MMS and 3G have opened up a whole new dimension of marketing channel to businesses and corporation. A new marketing strategy called mobile marketing is increasingly becoming the most popular marketing tools. Businesses can deliver marketing content directly to the palm of targeted consumers.
A survey has found that more brands are ready to spend larger proportion of their marketing budget on mobile campaigns in the very near future. About 71% have projected to spend more than 10% of their marketing budget in mobile marketing campaigns in the next 2 years. The survey have also indicated about 10% of consumers receiving SMS marketing have requested for more information on products and services grew from 32% in 2006 to 58% in 2007. More survey details can be found here.
How do you perform mobile marketing? First, you need to have mobile marketing software. GoLive! Concierge is a industry leader in mobile campaigns management suite. Setting up your campaigns with the software is fairly easy. You can provide services such as: subscription, ring tones and wallpapers download, SMS voting, Text-To-Win, reminders, polling, auction, chat and much more; to your targeted recipients.
GoLive! Mobile is also having an in-house design team to provide your company WAP Site Design or Mobile Website Design. You can host your content with GoLive! Mobile’s WAP Site Hosting or Mobile Website Hosting plan. If you are looking for a complete suite mobile marketing products and services, GoLive! Mobile is the right place to look into.
Something fun for mums!
Hey mum, chill! Here’s something fun (if you are a mum).
This is the William Tell Overture of Mum by Anita Renfroe. Anita is a multifaceted creative artist, a Christian singer and a musical comedian. Her creativity is absolutely amazing. With a blend of musical comedy and inspiration, she leaves her audiences with hearts infused with humor and hope.
Drug Rehabilitation
I recall a friend of mine, Hudson, who was our pal in our young days became alcohol-dependent and gradually withdrew from his work and society. We used to hang out in a pub after work for happy hours and to get some fun with pals we met at the pub. Without us knowing, Hudson became alcoholic and gradually demonstrated some withdrawal symptoms.
When a person become drug- or alcohol- dependent, the person will undergo personality changes and will have a lot of mood swing and become emotionally unstable. Gradually, [s]he will withdraw from social and family activities and worst, out of job because no longer competent in the work environment. Their appearance will deteriorate and no longer bother with personal hygiene. When the symptoms left untreated and the dependency continue to linger, it can develop into social problems with violence such as, theft, robbery and murder.
I come across The Watershed Addiction Treatment Program providing drug treatment. WIth facilities located at Boca, Boynton and Houston, Watershed’s program offers medical detox, 12-step involvement program, dependency education, detoxification services, group therapy, individual counseling, inpatient rehabilitation, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, women’s program, family therapy, recreational activities and residential rehab.
It was a long time ago and we have no idea where Hudson is. The last news we heard from his younger brother years ago was that he had gone else where to work and he was no more on alcohol. I believe he has successfully rehabilitated and recover from his alcohol dependency.
The Watershed offers professional program to help people with drug or alcohol abuse problem. I hope this blog entry may help those who need to rehabilitate themselves to have a better and healthier lifestyle. I wish them and our old-time friend, Hudson good luck! I really like to see Hudson again one day.
Borrowing Money
Money, money, money! It is everywhere in our everyday life. Whether you need to start a business, buy a house, buy some nice things or anything money-spending recreation you can think of, you need MONEY! I was thinking about money this morning while I went through the budget for setting up a small business. It really appears like loans are a part of our lives. Like I have a car loan so that I can acquire a new car to take my family everywhere.
Sometimes getting Personal Loans is not bad at all, as long as, you can find good, cheap loans or mortgages to help you afford the things you need. PersonalLoansMania.com is the right place to start hunting for your personal loan.
ANNOUNCE: Server Migration
Starting from October 8, 2007 MYT 13:00, we will be performing maintenance and migration to new server with dedicated IP. The migration is part of our expansion and consolidation exercise. Please expect DNS propagation to take up to 72 hours to complete. During this time, you may experience downtime at our site. Please come back again and check for comments on this post for updates. We apologize for the inconveniences. Thank you for your patience.
Travel Hassle
Whether you travel on leisure or business, choosing an accommodation at your destination is always a pain unless you already have a regular accommodation in mind and have unlimited budget.
My travel is always on very strict budget and have requirement constraint such as economical rate with breakfast included and free WiFi or wired Internet service in the room. Especially traveling in Asia countries, not every hotel is offering in-room Internet service. Some will offer in-room Internet service with a fee.
Having a friend or business partner to help looking for a hotel is also a hassle for both of us. Often times, the hotel he/she has made reservation with, does not meet my requirement and it’s not nice to turn down the reservation because my friend or business partner has already given their best effort to do a favor.
I prefer to make reservation on line. Hotel Reservations is my favorite place to go. It provides the best service I know to my extend so far. The information about the hotels listed on this website is very accurate. Some reservation sites do not provide accurate information about the services you get at the selected hotel. This causes frustration and most of the time arguments if the hotel does not provide the service but claimed to provide it at some reservation website.
When making hotel reservation, confirmation of room availability is utmost important. I remembered a few years ago when I made a reservation with a hotel in Taipei via a reservation website, I requested two double room with king size bed. The reservation was confirmed as is. I was on a working trip along with a female co-worker. When we arrived at the hotel, they put us in one double room! We had to made a lot of noises arguing about our reservation. The reason they told us was the had not enough room. After many attempts and an hour or two of waiting, we finally got one double room and one single room. I took the single room.
My recent experience with Hotel Reservations was sometimes in 2006 when I travelled to Bangkok for a seminar. The reservation was without any hitches and I was very satisfied with the service. I also made a reservation of a car rental to get me around Bangkok. I remembered when I arrived at the airport, the car was ready for me. I did not have to wait.
Hotel Reservations also provides low rates and offers discount up to 70% depending on promotion packages given by the hotels. This gives me extra savings when I am on a budget trip.
Besides hotel and car rental reservation, Hotel Reservations also provides flight and vacation package reservation. It provides all the service you need when you are planning your travel, saving times and hassle and most notably, frustration and argument for a unmatched service. So far, I have not tried making a vacation reservation but I am sure to try Hotel Reservations the next time I am going to bring my family to a vacation.
Human Disgrace
The shooting in Burma (now Myanmar) is an extreme cruel and disheartening act of a government and a disgrace of the human race on the earth in the 21st century. I am very disturbed by the news I read from the newspaper.
The military government of Burma does not deserve to rule the country. Burma has been a country practicing Buddhism which spread Buddha’s philosophy and compassion. How can this happen? Greed?
Weapons should be pointed outward to any possible incoming threat which will harm the country. Weapons should not be pointed inward to their own people. Killing their own country men is a crime which cannot and will not be tolerated by any God and by human race.
Today, humanity is lost. Do we, the almighty human, deserve to live and rule the wonderful mother earth?
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
A few months ago, when fornax‘s hard disk was dead, I upgraded it from 40GB to 160GB and installed Debian Etch. Debian Etch has once again boosted my confidence about Linux. The graphical desktop was working up to my expectation. It could support up to 1280 x 1024 resolution! Upgrading Debian is easier compared to other Linux distros like SuSE, RedHat and etc. Actually, I quite like Debian to power fornax as an alternative development platform and also for some general purpose computing and testing purposes. I did not blog about my Debian installation a few months ago. I should blog about Ubuntu installation to record my experience.
Today, after some months, reinstalled fornax again with Ubuntu 7.04, code named Feisty Fawn. The UI is even more superb than Debian. Everything has been nicely done and packaged. To my surprised, I can run KDE applications from Gnome’s menu. This could not be done in Debian and some other Linux. How nice!
As the matter of fact, I did not like Gnome very much because KDE applications would not appear in Gome’s menu. Ubuntu has changed my perceptual experience about Gnome and once again Linux!
I find Ubuntu has more human touch than any other Linux distros. I also find that Ubuntu is very closely competitive with Mac OS X!
Really, I have download Ubuntu’s alternate install CD in June but I had never had a good reason to install Ubuntu over Debian. This morning, I had to install and configure many software, for instance, Subversion, apache and many other software development tools; it gave me a good reason to install Ubuntu. Not because Debian did not have all these software packages (Ubuntu is based on Debian), it was because I had to do most of the tasks which were almost like installing a fresh system.
Ubuntu’s installation is easier than Debian and faster. I had it up and running in less than 20 minutes!
Now, fornax has once again become my Linux development platform as well as SCM (Source Code Management) server. Oh! I run ktorrent for downloading movies as well. It really flies and sucking all the bandwidth. I have to stopped ktorrent whenever I want to work on Internet.
My dream dictionary
Have you ever had a dream dictionary of yours?
I recall my old schooling days when one day, my sister Jenny presented me a dictionary. It’s an Oxford English dictionary. I was so happy. Ever since then, I started to read my dictionary. My second dictionary was presented to me by Jenny again when I accepted my first job offer as a computer programmer on the east coast about 16 years ago. It was an Oxford English mini dictionary, great for traveling.
When I was having my sabbatical karate training on Okinawa, I saw a huge dictionary in my sensei’s (teacher) house. It was about 5 inches thick, 1 foot wide and 2 feet long! It was hardcover. I could not remember the title of the dictionary but it was certainly splendid to see such a huge dictionary! That’s a dictionary of my dream.
I forgot to ask my teacher where he bought this huge dictionary from. I will email him this week to find out. I can’t find any of such huge dream dictionary in on-line bookstore. Perhaps someone can give me a hint?
Alright. That’s a dictionary I dream to have. Do you have a dream and you do not know how to interpret your dream?
Last night, I had a dream. I dreamt I was teaching Dmitry to read a dictionary. What did the dream mean? According to Dream Dictionary, the interpretation of my dream is:
To dream that you are referring to a dictionary, signifies you will depend too much upon the opinion and suggestions of others for the clear management of your own affairs, which could be done with proper dispatch if your own will was given play.
It is quite true that some of the time (may be most of the time), I depend too much upon someone’s opinion and suggestions when I need to get involved in something serious, sometimes not so serious though. I hope I will not pass this bad quality to my children as my dream implied.
Notebook computer batteries lifecycle
I have heard from many vendors giving all sort of statement on how to care for your notebook computer or cellphone batteries. I have also searched the web and found countless number of articles about batteries.
One discovery I found out recently was when I acquired a new Apple MacBook two months ago. I installed a widget called iStat Pro.
At one of the section, I noticed an information about charge cycles. Whenever, I charged my MacBook’s battery, the charge cycle will increase by one. It will increase even though if I plugin external power for 1 second.
During charging, the positive active material is oxidized, producing electrons and the negative active material is reduced, consuming electrons. Every charge cycle will oxidize and reduce the positive and negative electrodes respectively in the battery. This is the cause of the degrading of the battery health. To maximize your battery health:
- Make sure your battery is fully discharged before begin charging again.
- Make sure your battery is fully charged before unplugging your charger.
- If you plan to use your notebook computer for a long time, make sure computer is connected to external power source even though the battery is fully charged. The charger in most modern equipment such as Apple MacBook has intelligent charger. It will stop charging when the battery is fully charged.
- If you plan to use your notebook computer for extended long period of time, charge your battery to full and unplug it from your computer and work with external power source.
- If you plan not to use your notebook computer for a long time (more than a day), charge your battery to full and power down. Do not put your notebook computer to sleep or hibernation. When the computer is sleeping or hibernating, it withdraw power from its battery to preserve the contents of its memory. The battery power will be drained off in a few days time.
Happy Fasting!
Argh! I forgot yesterday was the beginning of the fasting month for the Muslims. I wish all my muslim friends and students “Selamat Berpuasa” (Happy or Safe Fasting).
Nano Calcium
Yesterday, LA, 3 dinos, my sister Mee and I were at Jusco shopping mall to get some groceries to prepare an evening dinner to celebrate Dominik’s Chinese birthday. When we were at the diary products section, there was a promotional stall to promote Anlene yoghurt. I was there to try the free samples with Richie. Then Mee came along and she tasted the sample too. The promotion girl approached us and introduced us the “Nano Calcium” in the yoghurt product she was promoting.
Oh dear! She picked the wrong person not knowing my sister is a research scientist (microbiology and cancer research). She is a Ph.D. in this field and has very strong command in her research area. She is doing her Master in Law (Patent) and is a scientific advisor to two law firms in New York and London. That innocent girl just picked the wrong customer! Of course, my sister started burbling about the “Nano Calcium” and she gave the girl a look in her eyes disagreeing the “Nano Calcium”.
There are many websites promoting “Nano Calcium” in their nutrition supplement products.
Calcium is a chemical element in the periodic table and has the symbol “Ca” and atomic number 20. Its atomic radius is 180 pm (picometer), 194 pm (calculated radius) and 174 pm (covalent radius).
1 picometer is 1×10−12 m while 1 nanometer is 1×10−9 m.
That means, 180 pm is 1.8×10-10 and still smaller than 1 nanometer (1×10−9 m)!
Marketing hypes! Ignorant consumers will get overexcited with the term and thinking that will be a real benefit to them as nowadays many people are talking about Nanotechnology. Calcium is calcium and there is no such thing that atomic or molecular structures can be shrunk further beyond the law of physics.
That reminds me a few years ago when one of the water filter marketed by Diamond can produce “Energy Water”. Water is water, how can a simple filtration system energize the water molecules to become “Energy Water”?
To our surprises, that girl approached my sister again to get her opinion about Calcium supplements which her uncle told her to take. Mee and LA educated this innocent girl about a good and balanced diets. Hopefully, she will listen to their advice and follow it.
Isolation
What am I doing in this wee hour? Well, I can’t sleep. I have had too much sleep. So, I am thinking of writing a post and an essay for my Sensei. But I guess I will leave the essay for later.
I have fallen ill due to a strong virus. It happened on Friday night when I finished practicing, I jumped into my car with AC on to go pick my sister, Mee, at Melaka Mall. When I reached there, she wasn’t there and first thing struck my mind: The bus could be late due to long holiday traffic on the highway. It always happens when a long holiday over the weekend. So I parked my car and got down and went inside Melaka Mall. The AC was cooler there. She did not appear and apparently, she got on a different bus which used a different route and she arrived at the terminal. I rushed down to the terminal to pick her up.
When arrived home, I began to feel cold. I guessed I had caught a cold. My body started aching and shivering. After Mee finished with the gifts she bought for the kids, I took some paracetamol and went to bed. I felt better the next morning.
Last evening, I collapsed onto the couch after coming home from Jasin class. I was so tired and I took a rest. At 1900, I got up and took a quick hot shower, took some bites and off to City Church class. When I arrived there, I started to feel cold when I stepped out the car. I began to feel sick during the class but I managed to close the training by 2200. After the class, I felt really lousy.
After returning home, I took some paracetamol again and went to bed. Everything was fine until Monday morning when I started to feel some irritation in my throat. I took more paracetamol in the afternoon but this time it did not work. I began to shiver. At last, I went to see a doctor and she prescribed me some antibiotics and some other medication. My fever was 39C. It was another strong virus attack since July 7, 2006.
After the clinic, I went to buy some masks and wore the mask at home and began to isolate myself from the kids. Dmitry and Dietrich were looking at me lying on the bed with a mask on. They must be curious what happened to daddy. This is the first time I isolate myself. I got a feeling, when both of them looking at me pitifully and curiously, that I am a weird and horrible old man in isolation waiting to for his time. I felt weird.
I hope the isolation will minimize the chance for transmitting the virus to them.
Cold Soba
Besides karate and yoga, I learned to make Sushi rice ball and cold soba during my first trip to Okinawa. Actually, the one I ate on Okinawa was not soba. I can’t remember the name of the noddle but it was white in color. I learned to make the dishes from Sumako sempai.
Today, I prepared the two dishes for the kids and LA. They loved it so much!
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