Tuesday, December 29, 2009

New Year Resolution

2009 is drawing to an end, and we are entering 2010. What are we expected to see in the new year?

I used to draw up a new year resolution, but overturned this initiative a few years ago, arguing new year is just an arbitrary and artificial marker for time which serves no real purpose in terms of motivation and life planning.

Now I plan to restore my initiative, and draw a new year resolution.

Have a family. But my dilemma is the girl I love is playing hide-and-seek with me, while the girl who loves me isn't really the one I want to have family with. Sometimes that is life. :(

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Tired

I spent Christmas at home, and for some reason I have been feeling tired. Tired of the life I am living. I mean, the life of wake up -> go to work -> go home is tiring. I start to feel bored.

What I have in mind to go back to nature. Get a small farm that is close to water. I can choose to farm my own food and can avoid all the bombardment from the TV, radio, and the vehicles on the road. This could mean I am overwhelmed for the mean while, but I don't know how long I would like to live away from the modern society. It could be 1 week, or it could be longer. I don't know.

I have more and more urge to go back to my hometown...

Friday, December 25, 2009

Greetings

Merry Christmas to all of my readers :)

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Week in Review

This is a quiet Saturday evening. I just came back from a friend's birthday celebration. Not wanting to lingering outside for long, I just headed back home, and got myself a can of beer along the way.

Now, cozy as I am, in front of the PC powered by my trusted OpenSolaris, I am trying to comb through thoughts that ran through my mind in the past few days. I will list the most important things first:

  • I have been missing mak alot, for no apparent reason. It seems time doesn't dilute the memory, damn. But this time I am powerless, as I have no more way to reach her, and she no longer gives me any more chances. So here I am. Like a fish on a parched land, under the hot sun.
  • Been dabbling in functional programming by following the legendary SICP (yes, the full text and all course videos are online, free). Therefore I am again picking up the Scheme programming language (a dialect of Lisp, if you wanna know). I am aware there are a lot of newer languages out there like OCaml, F#, Clojure, or Haskell, however I think programming languages are tools, and as long as we understand the paradigm, concepts, and fundamentals, tools are often secondary. The beauty of Scheme is its simplicity and relatively small size. In fact, its latest specs R6RS, has merely 90 pages.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Week in Retrospect

The past week I was quite busy, and proudly I could announce the following:

On my OpenSolaris, I have successfully compiled and run Qt4.6.0, PLT-4.2.3, and NTFS-3g. I am still thinking if I want to spend the time to write up some guides. I think I need some requests to motivate myself. If you need a guide on compiling the above packages, please drop me a note. I will try my best to help.

I miss that girl (again).

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Lazy Sunday Noon

I just had my weekly badminton game this morning. I have been lazing around since after lunch.

Today is a little humid, there was a brief drizzle a few hours ago. Sun has been shy for most of the day. Here it goes again, my laundry is gonna take days to dry.

Cuppa has been relatively quiet and busy these few days. My regular blog readers most probably will know why: I am busy tinkering with OpenSolaris. My latest project is to get Qt 4.6 compiled. The process is not straightforward and still work-in-progress. For now what I can share is SunStudio 12 cannot compile Qt cleanly. More specifically, the Sun compiler obviously doesn't like the C++ codes in Qt which are quite gcc-biased. After some thoughts, I decided to bite the bullet and get gcc 4.3.4 and friends in my box. After that, things aren't very pretty as well. So far I have patched a few bugs in 'configure' and few Makefiles. The compilation is still running at the background now.

Hmm, how should I end this blog post? Put one extra period? I think this makes sense.

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Now I start understand why you can both hate and love someone at the same time... ;)