I quickly took a look, and he was right. Now, there are only few possibilities there: Fan not running (which is dangerous), Fan is running but sensor not plugged in (not too bad), Fan is running and sensor is plugged in, but somehow not detected (false alarm).

I opened up the casing, saw the fan looks alright. I plugged out and plugged the CPU Fan cable back in, and voila, suddenly the fan speed is detected, and no more “Fan Error” message upon every start up.

While I’m there, with my itchy hand, I noticed that some of the PCs there were logged in using Admin account. Later I found out that the Admin account uses “1234″ as the password, which is known to everyone in the office (which is not good). Some PCs have all browsers you can imagine, toolbars, anti-virus (which is expiring in 15 days), Conficker worm, I Love You virus, and you-name-it, they’re all there.

To clean it all up, I did the following:

• Changed Administrator password, so only one guy and myself know it.
• Uninstall everything that is not necessary, additional browsers, anti-virus, toolbars, etc.
• Clean up startup registry to make sure unnecessary applications don’t automatically start-up.
• Install Microsoft Security Essentials (which is good and free), and did a full scan.
• Scheduled a daily 5PM quick scan.
• Updated the computer names to something that make sense. Previously, the computer names were like cryptic PC-4d33fa57f.
• Some PCs still on Windows XP SP2, so I quickly updated to SP3.
• Installed LogMeIn with my account, so I can connect to those PCs without having to brace the one-hour traffic everytime there are issues.

So yeah, that’s pretty much about it, but I’m happy that it looks a lot better after I left than they were.

Now, the side-effect with all these were my thumb drive that had all my utilities, and virus scanner, and so on were obviously infected. I had to remember not to plug in the thumb drive to other clean Windows PCs afterwards.

I waited till I reached home, plug into my Macbook (which is virus-resistant to Conficker and I Love You), and format the drive away, and the world is a much better place now with less computers infected by viruses.

All in a day’s work.

We had games

Food obviously, and the food was surprisingly good that night, with spring rolls, prawn, sausages, mushroom, chicken, and beef skewers, chicken wings, drumsticks, fish, so many I didn’t even try all of them.

As in any event, you need someone to hold the mic

to do some awards presentation

And lots more.

But one thing for sure, everyone enjoyed the night. Let’s hope that would kick off a good year ahead ^.^

I made it a point that in those seven days, I would have completed all levels of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars. Prior to me leaving for Bali, I had one level with only one star and many levels still with two stars. Felt challenged, I not only completed Angry Birds Seasons with three stars, I also managed to complete Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit from tier 1 to tier 4 before the year turned 2011.

Needless to say, the book was not read as much, but I still managed to read about 100 pages of it (and learned a lot from that book in the process).

If there’s anything Angry Birds Seasons taught me, it’s patience, thinking out of the box, and ultimately persistence. It’s the patience to wait for one level each day, it’s thinking out of the box to try out new things and sometimes not-so-obvious choices, and ultimately persistence to try 10, 20, 30 times (or whatever it takes) to get three stars in every single level.

It may only be a 99-cents game, but it can teach you a lot.

Anyway, here’s the stats they sent me to my email.

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,600 times in 2010. That’s about 23 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 6 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 597 posts.

The busiest day of the year was January 6th with 215 views. The most popular post that day was Connect / Tether Nokia E90 to Mac OS X Leopard for Internet access via Bluetooth.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, craiovaforum.ro, google.com.sg, search.conduit.com, and mail.yahoo.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for daniel wu, stephen tong, mall kelapa gading, windows import video, and mall decoration.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Connect / Tether Nokia E90 to Mac OS X Leopard for Internet access via Bluetooth August 2008
12 comments

Using Powerpoint Slide Master feature September 2007
8 comments

Skydrive, Foldershare, and Live Mesh July 2008
6 comments

Using Windows Import Video June 2007
4 comments

James Bond – Casino Royale and Sony Ericsson K800i Royale Silver November 2006
2 comments

There were many burst shots that I took when both of my nieces are in the frame, and it’s never easy to get children to pose nicely for your camera, so the only choice I had was to burst-shot and hope for the best that at least one good shot came out of it.

I will refrain from duplicating myself in sharing the photos in both my blog and Facebook, so photos and short explanation and story for them goes into Facebook, and my blog will most likely simply link to that album in Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=275400&id=697623837&l=82dcc9493a

Any better idea on keeping this blog alive while maintaing communities in Facebook?

In the mean time, here are some footages from the wonderful beaches in Bali.

For editing videos, I created a custom sequence preset in Adobe Premiere Pro to match iPhone 4 file setting.

They are:

• 1280 x 720 with square pixel (1.0) aspect ratio.
• 30.00 fps
• 44100 Hz audio

However, WordPress is currently posting a challenge of one post a day or one post each week to keep up the spirit and momentum going, and I’m subscribing myself to one post each week.
Let’s see how long this will last.

Here are what I could gather about the meaning of suffix:

• No suffix: plain and basic camera, likely US/Canada model with NTSC format.
• V-suffix: It means this camcorder has built-in GPS for geotagging.
• E-suffix: It means this camcorder is an “E”uropean model (including Australia and most of Asia) with PAL format.
• Character after “/” sign: It simply means the color of the camcorder. 350/R means Red color, 350/B means Black color, and so on.

So, that’s pretty much all to it. Simple when you think of it, but without proper documentation, it’s pretty hard to understand if you’re buying the right product or not.

Disclaimer: I’m not related to Sony by any means, so if I got anything wrong, let me know in the comments. ^.^