Data: Recovered

Back in June I was mortified to realize that because of my eagerness I've lost over 10 years worth of photographs and other files from my hard drive.  That experience has made me realize that I really do a lot of my work in electronic form. I did what most people would not do and I started the recovery process. I had no backups to speak of so getting the data back became an imperative for me.  It's now the end of August and I'm happy to let everyone know that I have recovered all that data completely. Yes, completely.  One hundred percent (100%)!  I've spent the last 3 days checking, re-checking, verifying that each bit and byte is there and accounted for.  Then I've begun the process of backing it all up to a second hard drive. Some of the more important ones I've begun to backup online on my server for off-site backup. Whew...  That was some experience.  Lesson learned... backup, backup and backup some more. Especially if you value your data.

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The House My Father Built

    Taken on New Year's Eve 2002 with a 28mm lens, f2.4 aperture.  I miss this house.  So much space.  The kids miss this too.  Or so I am told.    

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CityScape: Aircon Jeepneys

When did these airconditioned jeepneys start plying the streets of the metro?  Because I have no absolutely no idea.  At first I thought it was a private ride for some quaint family until I saw two of them side by side with the route they ply printed on the sides.  I went wow... I really to get out more often.

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Steve Jobs... The Man Who is Different

Reading about this piece of news made me sad.  I remember the time I started going into computers.  My father bought an Apple ][c.  Revolutionary at the time even if it only had a miserly 48kb of RAM and 1 floppy drive.  I loved it so much that I immersed myself into coding, hacking and reading up on all the tech lore surrounding it.

I first read about the Steve Jobs in Byte Magazine.  It was really an article about the two Steves who founded the company, Apple, Inc.  It moved me to imagine great things and to be first in a lot of things.  Personally and also in business.  To think differently.  Maybe not better than everyone else but certainly different.

It's hard to write about the man that has not yet been written.  Google him and you'll see what I mean.  All I can really say is he continues to inspire me in the things I do with work and other things.  That becaus! e of him I continue to think differently and I am not ashamed of that fact.

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I wanna be a billionaire...

[flv:trump757.flv 500 320] So frikkin' bad...  Not.  :D A very ostentatious way to live, don't you think?  I don't think I'd want to advertise myself if I have one of these babies.  Although... then again, I don't have his money so no use dreaming about it.  hehehe Link:  original Youtube video

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My Daughter's Art (2)

This was to have been posted back in July but I waited until now to do so as I wasn't too sure which way was up.  At first I thought it was a living room scene or something with a coffee table, tv and chair.  Turns out I was right on the first impression which is this one...  A woman.

Link to the first part.

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Optimus Prime...?

Optimus Prime...?, originally uploaded by Neolex.

Here's an interesting transformation mode done by my son. Reminds me of
Robotech's Guardian mode for its Veritech mecha. What do you think?

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Multiply

[flv:nmultiply.flv 320 240] Something I made.  Enjoy!

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We are the Gormiti!

Which one is mine?  And which one is my brother's?  :D [flv:gormiti.flv 320 240] [flv:gormiti2.flv 320 240]

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Nikki's First MMS... awww...

Nikki's First MMS... awww..., originally uploaded by Neolex.

Came with this message:

"Hey Dad, look what I just painted."

I so miss the kids being around.

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Optimus!

[flv:optimusnew.flv 320 240] My brother made this video last week.  Please leave your comment for Martin so he'll make more for this blog.  :D

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