Weblog of Quests

An excellent 3-part series on the boot up process of modern day computers, focusing on “Linux, Windows, and Intel processors.” Very worthwhile reading.

1. Motherboard chipsets and the memory map
2. How computers boot up
3. The kernel boot process

This guy is simply amazing!

Imagine if you were to be sponsored to travel across the globe AND to be able to do a geeky dance? Well, the result is the following video. Apparently, a third expenses-paid video has also been completed.

ps. Here is a bit more background information as reported on Australia’s The Sydney Morning Herald.

Had an opportunity to take the MRT - also known as the Metro, Subway, Tube, etc., elsewhere - and overheard the following conversation between a teenage couple.

“Try not to miss me too much!” said the girl as she headed to the door.

Don’t know about you, but it made me cringe inside when I heard it. Perhaps it’s age catching up with me, and it’s a sign that I am no longer anywhere near Generation X-Y-Z…

Hot off the press!

The lastest release of WordPress, the blogging software that is used on this site, has just been released. Once again, the dev team has done a wonderful job and they have even provided a brief video tour of the new features. Cool!

In case you were wondering, I am already on to it!

Just finished watchig the final episode to the current season of Doctor Who - the fourth series since the show was resurrected in 2005. Frankly, since rediscovering the show of my childhood years back in 2005, I think the Doctor Who series has been getting better and better. If anything, and perhaps as a sign of the sentimentalities of our times, we get to see a more human-like and at times temperamental Doctor as compared to the brilliant but slightly distant Doctor of the 70’s and 80’s.

The final episode, which is actually part of a 2-episode season finale and aptly titled “The final journey”, in a sense ties up many loose ends. After the hustle and bustle, everyone had someone to return to, or almost anyway. In the end, the parting of ways was almost matter-of-fact, without the emotional attachments we are more used to in previous episodes/years when Doctor’s companions left the show.

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