Due to the fact that my office is still using the old server, I may need to work overtime until the new server is up and running. Well, the hardware of the old server is not stable and I will have to do backups every now and then especially a final copy at the end of the day to make sure that every data is captured. Anyway, it is my job and hopefully the new server will be ready on Monday.

A new housemate has moved in today. She is Hungarian. She sounded friendly when talking to her friend, who helped her to move, and the landlord. The first time when I met her was the time she came to look at the room. She did not even bother to smile. Well, if that is the case, she better shows some respect while she lives in this rented house.

The landlord has also appointed a cleaner to clean the house every week and he hopes that we will cooperate. Cooperate in the sense that we will keep the place clean and tidy. The problem is that some people in the house does not do any cleaning or even throw the rubbish when the bin is full. We, for instance, clean up the mess that we make and throw our rubbish in our own bins to avoid any conflict.

Today is the last day of November. Everyone is talking about Christmas presents and radio stations are broadcasting Christmas songs. The scene at Festival Place shopping center is just packed with people. The people are waiting for the shop to open and cars are queuing up for parking spaces way before the shopping center’s opening hours. Public transport seems to be a better way to travel.

Mee bought her camera about two years ago and it is a Canon Ixus 65. Before that we had a Nikon but I cannot remember the model already. In fact, the Canon serves us well. It is fast, easy to use, easy to setup and has not given us any problem at all. However, we reckon that the old Nikon’s picture quality was better. The battery life and the flash recharge time were what let us down.

Soon, I believe that we will need something to replace the Canon Ixus 65. It will be either a digital SLR or a digital video camera. I am quite reluctant to get a video camera because we seldom record anything with the Canon Ixus 65. Well, if we were to get another digital camera, I am very happy to get another Nikon digital camera. Right at the moment, Nikon D90 digital SLR camera seems to be quite a good choice. Mee may not like it because it is not pocketable. But for me, I would not mind carrying something around my neck and take pictures whenever I can. Mind you, it can support up to 850 shots per charge.

A weekday without posting. Not very unusual but not very usual too. I was at the IT department yesterday to see what they were doing. When I got home, I played around with my Mac OS X because Mee worked night shift again. As I said before, she is very hardworking now and she will be working almost everyday next week. Right now, my Mac OS X is not working because I did something wrong yesterday. I will reinstall it tomorrow and create an image of it so that I can restore it whenever I want without needing the DVD.

The office server is down for 5 days in a row. It is being backed-up at the moment and hopefully, it will be ready after lunch. Well, it does not matter much because we only left a few hours to work on it after lunch because it is Friday. And we are still using the old server while the new server is being built. And we never know if the old server will cause any problems before the new server is ready.