0210

0210, the traffic light intersection of Green Road and Jalan Keretapi. On my left is a blue Mercedes, on my right a white Saga. In the Saga there were two man, one smoking a cigarette sitting with one leg on the seat. The Mercedes’ windows were fogged up from the air conditioning.

I was waiting for my turn for the lights to turn green. Since it is a ‘dumb’ traffic light, the pattern and delay for midnight is the same as the one in daytime; that is, very long. Glancing at the side mirror, I saw a Waja approaching with both of its blinkers blinking. Thinking that it is having a problem of sorts, I started turning my head when two men walked forward to the Mercedes. Only then I realised that the Waja was a police car, and that the two men were policemen.

They tapped on the window of the Mercedes. At first I thought it was a routine check, but when they opened the driver’s side door and did what looks like an attempt to wake the driver up, I can see that he is motionless. A few seconds later there were still no sign of life from him.

The traffic light turning green, I steered to the right to avoid the opened driver door. Throughout the drive home, I was thinking about the husband that will never come home to his wife and children.

0210.

Uptime

Casualties of War

Two KIA, one WIA. Symptoms include complimenting and insulting interchangeably, non-stop talking and non-stop laughing.

Whiskey, gin, tuak, tuak, langkau.
Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.
Beer, beer, whiskey, whiskey.

The Altar of CLS

The Altar of CLS

Wide world

Pablik Holidei

Crashing at a friend’s house for three nights. I don’t know you could have so much fun with a PS2 (PS3 can gtfo)

I like folding

Today’s haul – 23 February 2009

Delicious hotcool Intel on Gigabyte action with Kingston thrown in to make a threesome. This baby can go to 3.2Ghz on the stock cooler alone, using the stock thermal paste! (tried it myself)

This is the second Pentium Dual-Core in the house.

We is flying

0xc0000142

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142). Click on OK to terminate the application.

After a certain amount of time or reaching a certain point, any attempt to start any and all program will result in the error message above. Even Task Manager won’t start.

The (apparent) solution is given here. An hour before this the problem occurred again even after the steps described were taken several weeks ago.

What’s going on here?