Just received the email which I'm expecting from myself from the past (year 2005). Read my last year blog entry E-mail to yourself 20 years later if you have no idea what I'm talking about.

Below is the excerpt of the email content I got from myself in past, sent via FutureMe.org

(The following is an e-mail from the past, composed on Tuesday,
December 20, 2005, and sent via FutureMe.org)

Dear Darren,

(If you can't remember, It's you from midnight Dec 22, 2005 scheduled
to send this email on your year 2006's birthday :p)

First of all, Happy Birthday to you !!!

*content sensored for privacy...*

Ps : If you received this e-mail, remember to send an e-mail to myself
in future again !!

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delivery brought to you by FutureMe.org
like hearing from your past?
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(your support helps keep FutureMe free)
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cool eh ?? I'm going to send another email to myself, I'll expect to receive that email on next year around this time =) Oh ya, they removed that funny copyright notice at the bottom of the site too ;)

Just realize Telstra Bigpond has a new move after watching the premiere showing of "Tripping Over" on Channel 10 just now. It seems that Bigpond is offering movie/drama download via BigPond Movies. Movies title are $5.95 each, and $2.95 for each episode in a drama.

Where the hell is all your DVD movies collections gone to ? It's not on the shelf... you borrowed to your best mate and he never returned it eh? nah... it's in my hard drive...


out of topic: New season of The O.C. will be showing on tv soon ^^

Virustotal is an online service for scanning virus/malicious/suspicious files using several antivirus engines. Oh ya, did I forget to mention it's free too ? I'm not sure if it can detect packers or not.

Another good free online file scanning service will be Online malware scan by Jordi Bosveld. Besides scanning, it supports simple packers detection. I used to use this but lately it seems the server load is always extremely busy, not sure if the server got bombard/flood or there are really so many people using it.

I suggest scanning both packed and unpacked suspicious file that you want to scan in order to get the best result.

Found a nice & small utility from Matthias Wandel that manipulate EXIF data inside JPEG files.

Jhead is a command line driven program for manipulating the non-image parts of Exif flavour JPEG files that most digital cameras produce.

Jhead v2.6 program Features

• Extracting camera settings from Exif image files
• Able to set and/or adjust the Exif time field
• Manipulation (extrac, replace, regenerate) of Exif integral thumbnails
• Transplant Exif image header from one JPEG to another
  Edit JPEG comment fields
• Automatically rotate images upright (using jpegtran) according to "orientation" tag.
• Manage running programs on large batches of Jpegs and restoring Exif header information afterwards.
• Display embedded GPS info (if present)

Just found a PHP blog project in SourceForge - Simple PHP Blog. It doesn't require a database, uses flat text files, and looked nice. Runs on PHP 4.

Looks simple and nice to me, but flat text file eh ?? I'm not really a big fan of it... imagine writing extra coding to process text file and performance degradation when you're dealing with large scale entries.

I haven't test the whole thing. But , it's not bad for short term blogging by just looking at their page though. Simple PHP Blog got the basic features like leave comment, trackback, permalink, search function, RSS feed and etc.

I'll check their admin control panel later on and study their code when I got enough time.

Visit their SourceForge project page, or their web page.

via woeisiong:

It seems that Mozilla is building it's own editor. I suppose that's a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web-based editor.
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This is a good thing to FireFox and other gecko-based browser... BUT, what about IE and Opera ?? They aren't gecko-based. Does that means that they will not be able to use it ?? hmm ??

I've seen a few WYSIWYG but most of them are pretty buggy. They all consist of "complicated and sophisticated" things (codes, lol) in it, but they have the problems of cross-browser-compatibility.

Anyway, aren't those WYSIWYG editor and BBCode tags exists solely for one purpose ? To make lazy people's life easier =)

Visit the Mozilla Editor and the live demo (Note: I got a feeling the demo page is out-dated).

Set up Google as your homepage and read your multiple favourite RSS on your personalized page! You can choose what you love to read and what you don't want. Examples are your local weather forecast, top news stories, specific RSS feed and etc.

Google has this freely-drag-and-arrange feature that allows you to arrange the layout. Sounds cool eh? But before you can use the service, you gotna have a google account, eg Gmail account.

Visit Google Personalized Page, login and start to personalize!

Do you have anything to say to yourself after 20 years later ?? Check this out :


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I've just "send out" an e-mail, dated December 2006, to myself. I'll be sending an email to my 20-years-later me after I received the email next year.

FutureMe : http://www.futureme.org

ps: Loved their copyright notice at the bottom of the page

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- Blog this for future reference -

I've added weather updates on mysite, you can find them in top most of my page, on the bottom most of left navigation menu and also here for detailed info.

The latest weather datas are provided by Weather.com .

If you interested in building your own weather reports (web), check out here http://www.w3.weather.com/services/xmloap.html. It's a free registration and Weather.com only requires your email address. After then you can use the partner ID and license key provided and get access to the latest weather data, via xml feed ;)