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Halloween Costumes
November 2nd, 2009
I don’t think I’ve never dressed up for Halloween and since we were invited to a costume party this year, I decided to give it a shot 
Found this cute lady bug costume.
Andy found a chicken costume. How fitting is that given he’s worked at KFC for 6 years. LMAO
log4j properties loading problem + put ivy jar on classpath in ant
October 6th, 2009
I learned a few new tricks recently that I thought are pretty cool.
If you use apache log4j, you can get very frustrated sometimes that it does not log based on what you defined in your log4j.properties file. This is because if your java web application contains other jars that also have log4j.properties, the log4j will use the first log4j.properties on the classpath which most of the times is NOT what you defined for your web app. I never knew a solution to this until recently my coworker was able to use spring to get around it. In your spring context, add
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="targetClass" value="org.springframework.util.Log4jConfigurer"/>
<property name="targetMethod" value="initLogging" />
<property name="arguments">
<list>
<value>log4j.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
This will make sure the one you defined for your web app is used.
Also I recently wrote a groovy script in ant. I learned that you can use ivy to cache as instance of a jar and then you can use it in your ant script.
<target name="groovyScript">
<ivy:configure url="http://ivy.rainhail.com/ivyRepository/ivysettings.xml" />
<ivy:resolve conf="ant"/>
<ivy:cachepath pathid="cp" conf="ant"/>
<taskdef name="groovy" classpathref="cp" classname="org.codehaus.groovy.ant.Groovy"/>
<groovy>
<!-- your groovy script here -->
</groovy>
</target>
My Lasik – the day after the surgery
June 12th, 2009
Yesterday I had my Lasik surgery and everything went very well. I had to listen to the doctor and keep my eyes closed and at rest most of the time. I took a nap for four hours after the surgery. At first, the eyes felt a stinging sensation. It was rather uncomfortable but after I woke up, the sensation was pretty much gone. I had to apply eye drops every hour.
This morning I had my vision checked. Both eyes are at 20/20. They didn’t push any farther. Although when the coordinator left the room, I tried myself. I could also read 20/15 now. The only thing is that now I’m on the computer, I still have astigmatism like symptoms. The doctor said that is normal. It will take a few more weeks before that clears up. At this point, my vision will fluctuate from time to time. That is just the normal recovery process. My vision will continue to improve. I should get my best vision in maybe 6 weeks.
I’m eager to take a walk outside tonight to see how my eyes respond to night lights. That’s something I had trouble with even with glasses. Before the surgery, my eyes were at about 20/400.
CSS 3-column layout
April 8th, 2009
Saw this link getting dugg today. Despite a huge CSS fan, I have to agree with one of the comments.
The fact that getting a 3 column layout in CSS is a feat of wonder is an indication that something is terribly wrong with the standard. Building this layout should be obvious, intuitive, and in no need of discussion. This is absolutely trivial with tables — the only difficulty being that CSS zealots are going to crucify you when you put it together 10x faster than they can.
I’m all for the semantic web, but the fact that people still can’t admit that CSS lacks a grid positioning system (allowing you to align content to other parts of the document tree) is why it still lacks such a system. Get off your high horse. Admit that CSS layout is inferior to tables in some cases and needs some revision, and maybe someday life will actually be easier.
friend’s dream about me
March 29th, 2009
Haha this had me in tears. What a dream Kimi
kimi: omg i had the most **** up dream right before i got up this morning
kimi: you were in it and dodo too
kimi: too much p.s.
kimi’s friend (12:36:58 PM): hahaha
kimi: we were at this festival
kimi: they were squirting water on people because it was so hot .. and selling GIANT avacados in vending machines
kimi: and ….
kimi: KITTENS
kimi: in the vending machines
kimi: to EAT
kimi: with the avacados
kimi’s friend: hahaha wtf
kimi: dodo was there on stage with this hot pink set and purple smoke lol
kimi: in this silvery costume and lots of glitter
kimi: singing in chinese a song to “save the kittens”
kimi: and all these pet society characters were dancing with her
kimi: it was in some weird country
kimi’s friend: whoaaa
kimi: you and i were like yeah!!!! save the kittens!!!
kimi: they were all half starved and out of it
kimi: so hot and crammed in the machines
kimi’s friend: HAHAHHAHAH
kimi: the avacados were so beautiful but the kittens were half dead .. all orange and white kittens
kimi: $5 each and i had NO money
kimi’s friend: awwww
kimi: i said “i wish i could buy them with pet society coins” then i woke up
kimi’s friend: LOL
kimi: dodo had a hit song with her kitten song
kimi: i wondered if she would save all the kittens with it
kimi: god it was **** up
kimi: them clawing to get out of the machines
kimi: its still bugging me
kimi: im halving my xanax so im going to start having nightmares 
Rate Bubo
March 12th, 2009
I put Bubo’s photo on a local radio station website for their rate a pet app.
Go rate Bubo and other pets and have fun
Found a new home & printer
March 10th, 2009
Pure Essence was sponsored before and the sponsor died so I moved it to hostquack.com. So far I’m very happy with the support and server speed. I can tell a huge difference between the new server and my old. I hope the new home will be a lot better. Pure Essence had suffered a lot of down time due to running out of bandwidth and server down time in the past months. I hope it will be up 99.9% of the time as hostquack.com guarantees
On the other hand, we bought a printer!! Brother MFC-7840W Laser Multifunction Center with Wireless and Ethernet Network Interfaces is our new and FIRST printer. We bought it from Bestbuy for only $200. We never owned a printer before. It obviously is inconvenient from time to time. Now we’ve got a laser network printer that may act as a copy machine & fax machine. It almost feels like being spoiled. Hahaha!
After we purchased the printer, I did a little more research on it. I was surprised to find that we got an awesome deal (even without Andy’s employee discount since it was on sale) and the reviews for this printer are very positive. Hurray!
Misty little tongue
January 18th, 2009
The absolutely cutest expression Misty makes with her “little tongue”. She sticks her tongue out just a little bit to show her appreciation.
MacBook Wheel
January 10th, 2009
Instead of VAIO, I should have gotten the MacBook Wheel.
What was I thinking………
