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15th May 1999

Yes, I'll move April's entries into the archives soon. Bug me and I might do it faster. :)
I spent the first couple of holiday weeks in a dull dysphoric stupor. ("Dysphoric" isn't a bona fide English word; I invented it. Means "drifting aimlessly". From Greek. Now I'll stop being a showoffing (there's another new word) jerk.) Am presently working in the Comp Lab, making sure evil people don't steal the equipment. (Or reasonably sure, at least.)
Anyway, here's a cool URL for you. This pretty much encapsulates what I think about Web design. (My site doesn't follow some of the guidelines. So sue me. *sigh*) It's at CNet's Builder.com.
Also, the latest version of the tank AVI here(about 460K...).

29th April 1999

Yet another meaningless update. :) Exams are finally over, so I get a short break before my FYP begins...

Anyway, here's another treat for those who liked my last update. :) View a very short AVI of the same hovertank here(339K). May make a longer clip (Phantom Menace trailer beware! :) sometime.

25th April 1999

Sorry to disappoint all of you who've been breathlessly waiting for the next update of my page. :) I've been pretty busy with exams, and have been using the little de-stressing time I have for other (hopefully more constructive) pursuits. Anyway, here's a little treat for those of you who like 3D renderings, cool mechanical stuff or any combination thereof. I threw it together during a couple of free hours.

View Hovertank rendering (tank.jpg; 36K)

If viewing the image in Netscape, be sure to set your display Color Depth to 24-bit or 32-bit (not sure about 24-bit, might or might not work) for best results. MSIE integrates with Windows better so it doesn't seem to have this problem. If you see "contour lines" on the image, you know Color Depth is giving trouble.

Well, that's all for now. Exams finish on 28th, so I'll just disappear until then. Adios! :)

3rd April 1999

YES. :) 2 assignments down, 3 to go. Anyway, I just figured I'd post something interesting here.
The following is the official logo of the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (which is very kindly providing space for this webpage, since I'm one of its students) :

It used to have "an exalted place" at the top of the SoC webpage. However, some time ago a very observant student posted on the departmental NNTP server that the logo resembles a blue penguin (Linux, anyone?) carrying a yellow surfboard (presumably to go websurfing?).
Since then, the poor penguin has faced "relegation" to the bottom of the SoC webpage, replaced by the NUS crest, for reasons unknown (or maybe not). In the next few weeks, I'm planning to start a "Save the Penguin!" campaign to get the penguin back to its rightful place. Watch this space...
P.S. Archives containing old news are up.
P.P.S.Quote of the day: "I'm about to drop the hammer and dispense some indiscriminate justice!" - "Terranboy" mp3 - available from Fooky's page here.

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