Made two batches of mooncakes during the weekend. The first batch, some when horribly wrong it was so sticky that I could not get it off my fingers. It was also extremely sweet. I think there is not enough flour. …
Basics of missile control systems
This post is more of a book mark for me. It might grow to a bigger topic. I have always wondered about the control systems for missiles, the fins and strakes. What kind of design consideration they have to make to make…
Lotus Paste, Lotus Paste where art thou?
It is time of the year for my favourite pastry, mooncakes!!! I went to the nearby Red Man shop to purchase the Lotus Paste and shortening. Turns out they are sold out on Lotus Paste and low on a lot of other fillings. I guess I have to make do with Green Tea. Keeping my fingers cross.
Philippines tourist hostage crisis
This may be disconcerting for some people. Police storming a tour bus with 25 hostages. Note the light rain at the start and lack of rain rear the end of the video. According to press reports the whole raid took…
WordPress Theme
I have messed around with different themes for the blog, some successful, some turned out to be really bad for me. The magicblue look great with its snazzy banner of blue and white lines. Somehow I feel it can be…
System Center Operations Manager 2007
I have used the grandfather of this application when it was called Microsoft Operation Manager. It can be annoying, sending out alerts after another for the most mundane to weird situations. eg DAC component out of date, high memory usage. etc
To Err is divine
Using Err Tool to decode hex codes.