Archive for January, 2006
Origami cd sleeve
by Leion on Jan.24, 2006, under Howtos
Sometimes when I burn a cdr and I want to pass to a friend, I do not have a jewel case to put the cd in. It is too expensive to get one for each cd I give away. Hence, I make my own paper cd sleeves. It is more environmental friendly than plastic ones too.
Things needed:
A4 size paper and the CDR of course. I will refer the shorter length as the height and the longer length as the width.
Step 1:
Fold up at the left side of the length of the paper, about 4 cm or about 2 fingers’ width.
Step 2:
Fold back the fold in half, so that the paper looks like a ‘h’ or ‘z’, depending on how you look at it. This is the catch for the cd sleeve. More about it later.
Step 3:
Place the CDR roughly at the middle of the height into the groove as shown above.
Fold up the width nicely so that the paper still looks like a rectangle from the top.
How much up? As much as the paper allows without moving the CD.
Step 4:
Repeat the same for the top side of the paper. The CDR should be almost completely covered by now. The CDR should be restricted from moving now by 3 sides. This is the base of the cd sleeve.
Step 5:
Fold the left side over to the right such that the CDR is now restricted completed from moving. The tall part below is the cover of the cd sleeve.
Fold the cover down completely.
Step 6:
Turn the paper over. As can be seen below, there is an excess of more than a finger’s width.
Fold the excess part inwards so that only half the original excess part is left dangling out as excess.
Step 7:
At the 2 corners of the excess parts, fold inwards so that there are 2 triangles. See the picture below.
Step 8:
Now, for the resultant excess part in, So the excess part is now covering the base of the squareish cd sleeve.
Step 9:
Hold up the almost completed cd sleeve. The catch should be seen clearly. Put a finger in it for the next step.
Step 10:
Insert the excess part in step 8 into the catch. And you are done.
END PRODUCT:
Modifications:
Instead of 1 CDR, this design should be able to hold 3 CDR. Just skip step 7 as the excess cover will be lesser. However the cover catch may not be able to hold as tightly as the original design.
In her shoes
by Leion on Jan.21, 2006, under Movies
It was a sudden plan to watch this movie. Summer suggested to watch this movie to appease me from this incident
This movie is touching. It is about kinship and sisterly love, and how the 2 sisters managed to overcome their problems and grow stronger.
Happy ending as expected 
The pram fight
by Leion on Jan.21, 2006, under General
We were walking in the super crowded alley when suddenly a pram knocked into Summer. It left a small broken patch of skin at her heel. I was feeling quite angry over this, though that lady who was pushing the pram did say “sorry”. I wonder aloud why people still bring a pram out to a place they know will be very crowded. That woman did not say anything but she gave me a stare before moving away. I was still feeling edgy about the incident and I kept ranting about prams in crowded places to Summer.
We followed the crowd flow which ended at a open road. There, the lady, with another woman and two men were waiting for me. The lady came and questioned me about my problem with her pram while one of the man whom I presume to be her husband came pushing me with his body and kept scolding me. My body automatically resisted his pushing force but I kept my hands down. The other couple tried to pull the first couple away from me and Summer. I wanted to gave my reasons but they keep pushing me, then I asked if he was looking for a fight. The wife wanted to tell me that she had 2 babies and hence she must have her pram. Then Summer pulled me away while the husband was still scolding me a hooligan.
All the while, I was not acting in a violent way. Though I rant, I was ranting to Summer, telling her we should not get a pram to crowded places next time. I wonder who is the hooligan, trying to win a fight by numbers.
This incident has made me more irritated over prams in crowded places.
Like I said, the air was stiffling then, air will be stiffling in crowded places. Me, an adult do not feel good already, I wonder how the baby will feel in such a place. Next is the space a pram takes. It blocks the crowd flow and restricts moment, not to mention the high possiblity of it knocking into people. Babies cry more when they are in a hot and crowded place. The parents will have a hard time trying to appease the baby. They will not have many free hands to do serious shopping.
I just cannot imagine how “enjoyable” it is to bring a baby, it’s pram out to shop at a super crowded place. However, I just can see prams at computer fairs or at sales. What does a baby know about a computer part? I think parents should keep the baby, and the pram away from crowded places. It will do them and their baby good, and also the other shoppers good.
How to beat a speeding ticket
by Leion on Jan.20, 2006, under General
I am amazed by this guy.
He got a speeding ticket, went to court without a lawyer and got himself off the fine. All with the help of Google and his nice brain. COOL!
Law is just a matter of debating lol!
What else can you do with your thumb?
by Leion on Jan.20, 2006, under Software, Technology
I mean the thumb drive actually.
I have a 256mb original thumb drive. Original because it is from Trek, the Singaporean company, that invented the portable drive.
Though I kind of neglected my thumb drive now that I have my laptop with me almost all the time, I still bring the thumb drive with me all everywhere I go. Portable Firefox is a must for someone who loves Firefox as much as I do.
This drive houses my treasured programs and my school work, which I find it very hard to synchronise the files on my computer and my thumbdrive.(I have stupidly overwritten my new data with my old one before). I just find out that there is a program by MS,? called Windows Briefcase.
How to get it to work: Go to windows explorer, select the drive, then click File, New, Briefcase. then copy the files from the computer to the new Briefcase folder. So the next time when you want to synchronise the files, just right click the briefcase folder and choose update all.
Alternatively, there is a even newer toy:? SyncToy for Windows XP
| SyncToy v1.0 is available as a free download on the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers. |
This new toy has more advance functions that can make the synchronisation smarter. I have installed it and it seems impressive.
256mb may not be big enough to put a windows in, however, Damn small linux, as the name already suggested, is really small. It is 50mb only and can fit easily into a thumbdrive. The ablity to boot up from my thumb is nice however I am too lazy to try it out
NICE little drive I have and I am not going to throw it aside yet.
Do not blog on impulse.
by Leion on Jan.20, 2006, under Technology
Google has this function to cache up the whole internet!(I wonder how many harddisk they use up every minute.) That’s good news. We can get to see a website even if it is down. However on the flip side, all unwanted details online that was already taken down can still be retrieved.
See here. All the deflaming posts or private details about your life you accidentially posted online could be cached and stored for view back at a later date, even if you have already deleted and changed your posts. This is really bad so I shall keep this in mind.
However, fear not, it seems that there are ways you can do to tell google to back off from caching your site. I think I should look at that sometime soon…
