Life @ NCP

Shot by Laura Poitras, Citizenfour is a documentary featuring a small blip of Edward Snowden’s life when he leaked classified documents from NSA to Glenn Greenwald, now famous as the NSA Spying Scandal.
I wouldn’t call myself an avid fan of Snowden. I know what he did, I watched his ted digital appearance , and the response from NSA. I knew he was a solid, decent characters who did not do this for fame, but I didn’t expect him to be so calm, well thought out character, who have gathered his intention from ²⁰⁰⁷⁄₂₀₀₈, waited for Obama to change the game, only to be disappointed when he didn’t. It took him 5 years to do what he did, and when he did, he surely have done it in the most effective way. I cannot imagine the burden / thoughts went through his mind for five years. I certainly wouldn’t have done it. His age when he did that, 29.

Talking about lifestyle, this is the crux of my thought of the day. What kind of job will lead me to the lifestyle that I want? The lifestyle that I particularly enjoy? One answer relating to the above is having a great job.

• working in a slow-pace company
  o stable income
  o good job security
  o very restrictive, less challenging, may not get colleague that I enjoy

• working in a fast-pace company
  o stable income
  o more challenging
  o less job security. up or out policy from accenture (do not say the name)

• working as an academic
  o stable income
  o i can work on more things that I find interesting

• working as an enterpreneur
  o no stable income
  o very challenging
  o need creativity and wide general knowledge and awareness about new things that happen around me
  o can do whatever I want without real restriction from employer
  o risky business to start with

If there is one American TV series that I am obsessed with, it is Wipeout. Specifically, it is the US version Wipeout – not UK’s Wipeout, although Richard Hammond’s hosting it, and definitely not the new ¹⁄₅^th of the prize Australian Wipeout. The Wipeout that I’m talking about dangles $50,000 to 24 contestants, alluring them to get through a series of “obstacles” grouped into four stages of the game. In each stages, contestants get eliminated: from 24, it’ll become 12, 6 and then 3. These obstacles are physically tough, usually it involves jumping through stilts while a sweeping arms chasing the contestant from behind. …

Wipeout America is the third most popular TV game show in blah (citation needed). It is quite amazing that it has been able to extract BLAH season out, from the most basic humour of all: that seeing people fall is funny and horrendously enjoyable. It reminds me of the Australian Funniest Home video that I used to watch every Saturday night. I knew what I was going to see, and it’s repeated again and again and again within the hour, and yet I still watch it and get so much laugh out of it.

LALALA

After jagabee

I have learnt through my experience that the worse time to arrange for meetups is on a Sunday which the Daylight Saving Time just ticked over. Typically, my “rubber-time” friends, who would usually be late in a normal situation, will be guaranteed to be at least one hour late.

Do you ever wondered why we have Daylight Saving Time (DST)? Or more importantly, the purpose of having one? In Sydney, every October (?), the clock move back/forth for one hour, only to be readjusted back to what it is in March (?).

Reason for DST creation was to ration candle usage -> wikipedia

This is why world time buddy site exist. Is it really needed when the problem is completely man made?

Australian states make things even harder, because for example in 2008, every states other than Western Australia would do the clock shift in October 5, where as the special state would only do it in October 26.

I wonder why there seems to be more people who cares about changing our calendar (link to the perfect calendar thingo that I’ve seen), rather than fixing this daylight saving stuff.

Some countries have chose to stay permanently on their Daylight Savings Time, which then becomes their Standard Time. When can we do the same here?

I’ve been playing around with Django lately. While I was trying to put in YUI stuff from local directory, I wasn’t able to.

Found this documentation here that is extremely helpful.