Currently Watching - DVD

FRIENDS The Complete First Season
The One Where It All Began, The One With The Sonogram At The End, The One With The Thumb,
The One With George Stephanopoulos, The One With The East German Laundry Detergent, The One With The Butt,
The One With The Blackout, The One Where Nana Dies Twice, The One Where Underdog Gets Away,
The One With The Monkey, The One With Mrs. Bing, The One With The Dozen Lasagnas,
The One With The Boobies, The One With The Candy Hearts, The One With The Stoned Guy,
The One With Two Parts, Part 1, The One With Two Parts, Part 2, The One With All The Poker,
The One Where The Monkey Gets Away, The One With The Evil Orthodontist, The One With Fake Monica,
The One With The Ick Factor, The One With The Birth, The One Where Rachel Finds Out.

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9th November is Hedy Lamarr's birthday.
Did you know that the original idea and patent that led to cellular phone technology comes from the movie star, Hedy Lamarr?

She knew a great deal about weaponry by listening to her first husband, Fritz Mandl, an armament manufacturer. She left her husband when he became increasingly involved in deals with the Nazis and made her way to London, then on to Hollywood.


She'd kept her mind active on what she'd heard about the problems of radio controlled missiles and how easy it was to block the simple signal. She realized that if the signal jumped from frequency to frequency quickly (like changing channels on a TV or radio) and both sender and receiver changed in the same order, then the signal could never be blocked by someone "listening in" who didn't know how the frequency was changing.

In those days before the transistor was invented it was difficult to design a way for this to be accomplished. Composer George Antheil suggested using something similar to piano rolls, from player pianos, to keep both sides in synch. Together, he and Lamarr patented the "Secret Communication System" in 1942. At that time the idea of using the paper rolls was too cumbersome to be practical.

When the transistor did become available the Navy used the idea in secure military communications and when transistors became really cheap the idea was used in cellular phone technology. By the time the Navy used the idea, the original patent had expired and Lamarr and Antheil never received any royalty payments for their idea.

In 1997 she was honored with an award at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference for "blazing new trails on the electronic frontier." Hedy Lamarr died on January 19, 2000.

Her story
Her background
Her invention

New TOY!

I bought a new phone! A Sony Ericsson T68i.

And the CommuniCam!

A review.

In a nutshell
SMS, email (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP), EMS (enhanced messaging service), and MMS (multimedia messaging system). Works in the three bands (900, 1800, and 1900 MHz) of GSM (global system for mobile communication). WAP (wireless application protocol), GPRS the 2.5G packet data standard. 256-color display, 101x80 resolution. 510-entry phone book. Calendar, notifications, task list. Bluetooth, infrared, voice command/dialing, custom image support, games. Five-way joystick. Synchronization with Microsoft Outlook. SyncML for over-the-air synchronization. Over a megabyte of storage for pictures (JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, or WBMP), associate ring tones and images with contacts in phone book. Take pictures with the optional MCA-20 CommuniCam, a camera attachment supporting resolutions up to 640x480.

4 of 7 - Envy

I'm still waiting for my Streamyx. ):

Oh when? When!??

Currently Watching - DVD

Sex and the City The Complete Third Season
01. Where There's Smoke
02. Politically Erect
03. Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman
04. Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl…
05. No Ifs, Ands or Butts
06. Are We Sluts?
07. Drama Queens
08. The Big Time
09. Easy Come, Easy Go
10. All or Nothing
11. Running with Scissors
12. Don't Ask, Don't Tell
13. Escape from New York
14. Sex and Another City
15. Hot Child in the City
16. Frenemies
17. What Goes Around Comes Around
18. Cock-a-Doodle-Do

Tropico Mucho Macho

This marks the beginning of my Tropico journey.

Please email/SMS/ICQ me any tips on how to make the lovely citizens of my paradise island lives better.

Cos I love them, I do.

My Bit Char-G configuration
Thanks to Alex and all the extra bits, my Bit Char-G has the softest red spring, the medium hardness tires, teal gears and the 3.0 motor.

Its the cutest and fastest thing this side of the coffee table. (:

The Bit Char-G Guide for Bits!
Thanks to TheFanMan and TinyRC

Drift Sets:
The drift kit comes with an axle that has plastic molded tires. The gear ratio is orange. They cause your cars to spin easily, and corner very sharply. They are not well suited to racing etc. The pack also comes with a set of medium (stock) tires and a spring set (ranging from soft to hard). The springs are located on the front top of your chassis. The stock springs are white and the add-ons are red.

Tire Sets:
This set includes three different sets of tires. They are soft, medium, and hard. The soft tires have an off road style tread on them while the hard tires have a street tread. The mediums have no tread at all. They are much the same as the stock tires that come with cars, but are slightly harder. Note: The hard tires are very difficult to get on the front wheels! Be careful to not damage your wheels when putting them on or taking them off.

Gear/Axle Sets:
This set comes with three different gear ratios, consisting of an axle (without tires) and a matching colored gear. You cannot mix the gear colors or the car will not run due to gear binding. The gear colors are as follows:
Blue - good acceleration but not much top end. Good for climbing and technical tracks.
Orange - fair speed, fair acceleration. A good all around gear. This setup comes standard with all cars except special editions.
Teal - somewhat slow acceleration but great top end. Good for racing or wide open spaces. This setup comes standard with all special edition cars.

Motors:
There are four different speeds of motors. They are:
1.0 (blue) - comes standard with all newer cars. It is the slowest motor but has good torque. Recommended for beginners.
2.2 (yellow) - comes standard with most older cars. It can also be bought separately. This motor is the best all-around motor. It is reliable and fast, but not so fast as to be uncontrollable.
2.6 (orange) - comes standard with all special edition cars. It is faster, but not as reliable as the 2.2.
3.0 (red) - almost too fast for practical use. Recommended for short drag racing runs only. Less reliable than the 2.2.

ICQ
*sigh* Pretty please, if I am on your ICQ list, send me a message, so I can add you into my 'OH SO EMPTY just reinstalled' ICQ.

Including you, Linda. Yes YOU!!

Shisha
As if I do not have enough addictions in my life.

I now add Shisha to my ever growing list.

Thanks to my very own hookah, and much practice, I can now prepare and smoke up a bowl in less than 5 minutes.

*cough*

Currently watching
Sex and the City Season Two
01. Take Me Out to the Ball
02. The Awful Truth
03. The Freak Show
04. They Shoot Single People, Don't They?
05. Four Women and a Funeral
06. The Cheating Curve
07. The Chicken Dance
08. The Man, the Myth, the Viagra
09. Old Dogs, New Dicks
10. The Caste System
11. Evolution
12. La Douleur Exquise!
13. Games People Play
14. The Fuck Buddy
15. Shortcomings
16. Was It Good for You?
17. Twenty-Something Girls vs Thirty-Something Women
18. Ex and the City

Currently watching
Sex and the City Season One
01. Sex and the City
02. Models and Mortals
03. Bay of Married Pigs
04. Valley of the Twenty-Something
05. The Power of Female Sex
06. Secret Sex
07. The Monogamists
08. Three's a Crowd
09. The Turtle and the Hare
10. The Baby Shower
11. The Drought
12. Oh Come, All Ye Faithful

How on earth did you find me? Part II
Some of the searches that lead you to me.

Pretty Singapore School Girls

Taro Yamamoto pics

free download full-length movies moulin rouge

fire wizard solo guide daoc

home custume ideas

morcheeba video world looking in

priscilla presley sims skin

sims wedding cake

cute singapore girls photo

peeping singapore

kogepan

char-g headlights

zoolander pics

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=zoolander+pics

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=singapore+peeping+pics

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=zoolander+%2Bpics

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=free+ad%26d+3rd+edition+oriental+adventures+book+download&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=zoolander+pics

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=zoolander+%2Bpics

http://search.cometsystems.com/search.php?origin=csearch&qry=legolas%2Bcustume

(see also How on earth did you find me? Part I)

OH GOOD GRIEF.

The silly power supply on my computer suddenly died on me a few days ago. *sigh*

ROFL!!!
LOL!

I can't wait for my broadband (streamyx! streamyx!) to get connected this week. And jump right back into Dark Age of Camelot. Its been EONS since I last logged on.

Oh how I missed thee.

Painite is one of the rarest minerals on earth. Only four crystals are known to exist. Its chemical formula is: CaZrBAl9O18. The orange-red to brownish-red color is caused by minor amounts of chromium and vanadium in the mineral. Although it often appears in lists of gemstones, no crystal has ever been faceted.

What is shisha?
Shisha is tobacco mixed with molasses and fruit flavors and is smoked in a hookah. It is very light and flavorful with a wonderful fruity aroma. It is smoked for the flavor and not for any kind of effect. Though the most popular flavor is apple, others include strawberry, pineapple, apricot, grape, rose, mint, and even cappuccino! In the Middle East, from Turkey to India, there are shisha cafes where people gather to smoke and drink coffee or tea. Smoking shisha can last two hours or more and is a very peaceful, social occassion generally filled with good conversation with friends.

So what is a hookah?
A hookah is known by many different names in different parts of the world: a shisha, a nargile (pronounced nar-geelah), a hubble-bubble or hubbly-bubbly, a waterpipe. The most famous instance of hookah smoking is probably that of the caterpillar in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. A hookah consists of a hollow glass (sometimes clay or brass) base which is filled with water, a vertical pipe topped with a clay bowl for the shisha and coals, and a usually colorful hose. When one sucks on the hose, the smoke is drawn down the pipe and through the water, which cools and filters it. This also produces a peaceful bubbling sound.

What's the point of all these information?
I am a proud owner of a brand new hookah and is now peacefully puffing on apricot flavoured shisha. (:

The best Raw Fish Porridge in Singapore can be found at a dingy old Hawker Centre at Maxwell Road. I can't remember for the life of me what the name of the stall is, but its opposite another stall selling fish noodles. Also, there is a perpetual line of trillions of people lining up for the porridge so you really can't miss it.

Oh JOY! JOY! JOY!

Today, I recieved a call from Telecoms. Streamyx is now IN MY AREA!

Driving like a maniac, I was at the Kedai Telecoms within minutes. Snarling at the counter attendent, I grabbed an application form and filled it in. With much hope and a glimmer of a tears in my eye, I handed the form in.

A week more to wait. They promised.

Oh JOY! JOY! JOY!

I have now in my possession 2 kgs of technical grade Sodium Hydroxide. After searching high and low in countless shops. After calling a trillion people and chemical companies. It finally arrived TODAY.

Now I have the oils. I have the fragrances. I have the colours. I have additives. I have sodium hydroxide aka caustic soda aka LYE.

I am soooo ready to make soap this weekend.

Again.