NTU SCE Class 2007

Went back to school to take photos with some of my friends. More coming soon. A few more are in now.

http://picasaweb.google.com/gunblad3/NTUSCEClass2007

MozBackup - Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird

Recently my FireFox has been refusing to let me login to ANY google related site, forcing me to revert to IE7 for the time being. And since the portable version still works in school, I think I will need to reinstall FireFox along with everything else... =

Found this tool at http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ whilst trying to find a way to port my firefox profile with all the customisations, bookmarks, passwords and whatnot. I hope this one works.

The website says:

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla
Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.

Sounds promising!

The Servant King

From heaven you came, helpless babe
Entered our world, your glory veiled
Not to be served but to serve
And give your life that we might live

This is our God, the servant king
He calls us now to follow him
To bring our lives as a daily offering
of worship to the servant King

Come see his hands and his feet
the scars that speak of sacrifice
hands that flung stars into space
to cruel nails surrendered

So let us learn how to serve
and in our lives enthrone him
Each others needs to prefer
for it is Christ we're serving

Flies

It's only in NTU where you see things like 4 flies getting trapped in a bowl of miso soup in a time span of less than 5 minutes.

I like my university ;P

C# .NET Barrel Shifters

In case anyone needs the code for it ;P

private byte LeftBarrelShift(byte b, uint amount)
{
amount %= 8;
byte temp;
for (uint i = 0; i < amount; i++)
{
temp = (byte)(b >> 7);
b <<= 1;
b += temp;
}
return b;
}

private byte RightBarrelShift(byte b, uint amount)
{
amount %= 8;
byte temp;
for (uint i = 0; i < amount; i++)
{
temp = (byte)(b % 2);
b >>= 1;
temp <<= 7;
b += temp;
}
return b;
}

Conflicting Views

This ad caught my eye a few days back....



...reason being it summarizes how we used to be like before the truth came to us.



(Well, at least they're honest about it ;P)

Putting off the old filth and humbly accepting the word in the heart...

Enough is enough.  It's really high time to turn from the old worldly ways which end up in destruction.

Goodbye for now

Funerals are meant for the people around to accept the passing away of a friend/relative.

It works in a way, but in dealing with the loss of a loved one, nothing is better than being around the person again.

Such is the hope we have in Christ, when all the broken and lost will be restored back to perfection. Nothing can ever replace that...

Goodbye for now our dear brother W. Loo, you'll be dearly missed on this side of eternity...

Reminded

Really reminded of a lot of things today:

-From James 1:1-11, the importance of viewing this world, and our suffering, from God's eternal perspective, not ours.

-From hearing of the demise of a dear brother, which really is a shocker since he's really hale and hearty, that this life is really temporal, the next is the real deal. That the truly wise live for the next, whilst living in the current one.

-From hearing things from the viewpoint, that family life lived out God's way involves not right actions, but actions coming from a right attitude.






...I have a long way to go in spiritual maturity. The progress that happened over the past few years in uni was only the beginning.

Work and gospel

And so comes the time where work seems to be screaming to be top priority over everything else.

I know that it's just a once off issue where once settled priorities can "go back to normal".

But that sounds almost like a lie, a beginning of a downward spiral towards totally ignoring the eternal that's truly important, and just living solely for the temporal which is now.

I think I haven't fully understood (school)work in the light of the gospel yet.