Whoa!... Yes, I've been slacking at updating this blog. Sorry. We've been busy. Have had a lot of out-of-town guests the last several weeks. You can see most of them in a new photo album I put up (only 23 photos though). I've got more photos to add but have not had the chance yet to select, resize, optimize, and upload.

Hmmm... Any other notable things? Well, at work a fan that cools 2 SCSI hard disks burnt out so Alex and I replaced it. During the process, we improved the case airflow by removing two 5.25" drive bay covers and using duct tape to funnel air into the new fan. I'll try to put up a photo of the work. On another of our servers, the power supply's fan burnt out so I replaced the power supply. Oh, oh, oh... how could I forget?!... our Malaysia office had their Internet connection down for like 3 days. The ISP, Jaring, which is pretty much a monopoly, claimed the problem was with the leased line provider, Telekom Malaysia. Well on the 3rd day, they said the line was up and everything was fixed but we still weren't getting Internet access. Turned out that our firewall's configuration had gotten corrupt — probably as the result of repeated cycling of the firewall's power by our part-time IT guy, Chris, to try and get the connection working. In the end, over the phone I walked Chris through the process of wiping our firewall's firmware, uploading new firmware and then reconfiguring the firewall again from scratch. Thank God that did the trick! BTW, if you're looking for a good firewall, I recommend SonicWALL's products.

Just the other night we had dinner with my old neighbor, Eric Loo, and an old grade-school classmate, Gifford Chang, who were visiting from Hawaii. Well, they were visiting Hong Kong with the Hawaii Narcissus Court which I think is sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii. So, we had dinner with the whole tour group (minus the court!) at Grace's Garden in Time's Square, Causeway Bay. Was a fun night and good to catch up with the two guys whom I hadn't seen in like 15+ years! Got a few photos of that night which I'll put up later.