First Words

I've been putting this off for far too long. I'd better post it down before I forget.

Sarah's first words.

The first simple mono-syllables

• Car - first word ever, spoken when she was a few weeks old.
• Cat
• Star
• Nak (short form of "want", in Malay)
• Mak ("mum", in Malay, despite the Mrs' attempts to get Sarah to call her "Mummy")
• Tree
• Yes
• No
• Whee!
• Where? (a new word spoken today! - She was looking for the neighbourhood cat)

The next level

• Daddy
• Flower
• No more

Of course, most of the time, she sounds like the lead from the movie: The Gods Must Be Crazy. I'll try to decipher her babbling and pick out the proper words.

Anime Festival Asia 2008

Sarah's 2nd convention thingy! And again, saw lots of cosplayers, toys, and robots. Sarah doesn't like being in the BECO much these days and I had to hand-carry her throughout our wanderings on the convention floor.

The highlight of the day? Giant miniature robots! And the new series, Gundam 00. Here's a pic of the Exia - the lead character / mech. I still haven't decided which of the new Gundams I like best. None of them really seem my style.

My First Yes

Whenever I'm having trouble with Twitter, I check this URL. I was never sure if it's a joke URL or the real thing.

Today, I'm having trouble with the big T, and lo behold. a big, red Yes greeted me.

I wonder how long I gotta wait this time.

http://www.istwitterdown.com/

Capistrano on Ruby

Suf gets experimental!

Read http://www.capify.org/ about Capistrano and discovered that it requires Ruby 1.8 upwards

Ok.

Head on down to http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ to get the "one-click" installer. For Windows. (I got 1.8.6)

Confirm the existence of RubyGems using "gem -v" on Windows' command-line.

Type in "gem install -y capistrano" to download / install Capistrano

Didn't work? Need to update the gems.

Type in "gem update --system"

When that's done, enter "gem install -y capistrano" again.

Should work now.

Another Way To Die

I'm just rocking the new James Bond song now.

"A door left open, a woman walking back, a drop in the water, a look in the eye, a phone on the table, a man on your side, or someone that you think you can trust, is just, another way to die."

The Simplest Complex API

Just a quickie here:

Playing around with Google's Chart API and honestly astonished at how simple it is to use and also amazed at the amount of complexity of customization options it offers.

Just a simple link:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x300&cht=lxy&chd=t:1,1.370,5.137,10.111,53.780,65.369,92.584,100|1,25.2554,22.2512,22.2405,24.58504,25.3351,25.459,25.6906&chm=s,115511,0,-1,5,0&chxt=x,r&chxl=0:|2008-10-23|2008-11-03

Can generate the chart image attached.

Check it at out on http://code.google.com/apis/chart/