SWAPPING HHD ON PC

SWAPPING HHD ON PC

Spent most of the day rebuilding two PC’s. One had a problem with the network drivers and reinstalling didn’t help so I just had to rebuild it. My other PC I swapped to a bigger HHD and used Clonezilla to backup the content from the old HHD and restored it on the new HHD. ACTIVITIES […]

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GOOGLE URL SHORTENER STATS 1

GOOGLE URL SHORTENER STATS

I’ve been using Google URL shortener to track whether people have opened the link in the emails I send. Basically, Google URL shortener makes long URL shorter by using goo.gl/XXXX. I’ve been using this for several years now but just yesterday it was the first time I paid attention to the text below the field box: I’ve […]

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NEW THEME FOR WEBSITE

NEW THEME FOR WEBSITE

My brother is looking at changing the theme to our Advertise Me website. The last time we did that, (over 4 years ago) we paid the consequences. One thing to remember when changing anything with your website is that you may either increase your SERP (Search Engine Results Page) or bury it. A few months […]

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FIXING THE LIGHT

FIXING THE LIGHT

One of our office lights almost feel the other day and today an electrician came to fix it. This is a picture of the light almost falling from the ceiling. It was held by 2 screws on the right hand side. The plastic cover almost fell off so the electrician use some cable ties to […]

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CONFUCIOUS TEACHINGS

CONFUCIOUS TEACHINGS

I had to do some research about the 5 Constant Virtues and came across this biography video of Confucious that I thought I’d share with you all. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Missed out on the morning exercise workout Did some reasearch on Confucious teachings [bar group=”124″] FITNESS […]

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BUYING A BUSINESS

BUYING A BUSINESS

So my brother is thinking of purchasing a business and here are a few things I’ve learnt: carefully check the business information, in particular, the financials find out why they are selling the business are there any debts on the business is there growth can you market the product ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of […]

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new indoor shoes

NEW INDOOR SHOES

Tried my new Puma indoor shoes I ordered a few weeks ago. When I tried them on it felt a bit tight. They were US size 9. I also noticed the end of the shoelace section of the shoe was not located in the middle. When I first saw this I said to myself it […]

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ROUTER PROBLEMS FIXED

ROUTER PROBLEMS FIXED

I had an issue with our TP-LINK router so I decided to video how to fix since it was an easy fix. Here’s the video I captured using the 360fly 4K camera in POV mode. You can read more about this here: How to fix a rebooting or stuck TP-LINK router W8960N ACTIVITIES Below is […]

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TIME FLIES ITS TIME TO RENEW

TIME FLIES ITS TIME TO RENEW

For Social Wall, the subscription model works really well because of cash flow. Time flies and it’s great to see clients support the product by renewing the subscription. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: More replies to Social Wall enquiries Client renewed subscription Follow up on RMA for a […]

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KINDERGARTEN ASSEMBLY

KINDERGARTEN ASSEMBLY

[talk about something] ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Attended daughter’s assembly since he received an award Needed to upgrade WAMP to latest version Problems: Missing files, needed to install redistributable files both for x86 and x64 even though 32 bit WAMP was installed. Apache not starting. Port 80 […]

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YOUTUBE VIDEO TOO LARGE

YOUTUBE VIDEO TOO LARGE

It took about the whole day to upload the 2GB video to YouTube and at the end of the upload this is the error message I received, “This video has been removed because it is too long”. Sorry about that. Say what? Sorry? I just spent 2GB of my quota to upload this video and […]

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360 VIDEO EDITING

360 VIDEO EDITING

I captured a 360 video on the weekend and decided to see if it can be edited or trimmed as the original file was 9GB for 25min video. It was captured at the highest resolution 2880×28080 pixels with a frame rate of 30fps and recording rate of 50Mbps. The quality was amazing and you needed to […]

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valentine day

VALENTINE’S DAY

It’s Valentine’s day and for me, it’s just another normal day – yes boring but I don’t see the point of buying flowers that will wilt away. I love my wife dearly and buying flowers is not going to change anything. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Found out […]

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THE PROJECT TIMELINE

THE PROJECT TIMELINE

I had to put together a timeline of tasks required to get a project completed. This involved liaising with the relevant parties and determine when their part of the work will be done by. This puts a lot of pressure especially when there is a tight deadline. Part of project management is being able to […]

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Thermomix Dinner

THE THERMOMIX DINNER

My sister invited me to her place to have some Thermomix dishes and they tasted nice but I wouldn’t pay that much money for it. It cost about $2k that’s a lot of money. We had several dishes so scroll down to have a look. We even had dessert – strawberry sorbet. ACTIVITIES Below is a […]

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TOO HOT TO HANDLE

TOO HOT TO HANDLE

Today we hit over 46 degrees. It was a hot and humid day. It was lucky I had the air con in the office and didn’t realise it was that hot until I came out. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Had to shut down digital signage players for […]

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QUOTES TURNED INTO INVOICES

QUOTES TURNED INTO INVOICES

Had some good news and managed to convert a few quotes into invoices. It did take a week or so to get ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Exchanged son’s school shirt and shorts Quotes turned to invoices [bar group=”124″] FITNESS WORKOUT Today, I did a fitness workout which […]

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the backup process

THE BACKUP PROCESS

So I mentioned yesterday I was backing up files from the VPS server and zipping the files is taking so long. There’s about 100GB of data which needs to be zipped and then the zip files need to be FTPed across to another server. It seems to be taking forever and the site has now […]

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