Don't Panik – Eugene's little blog
Food, travel and Photography
If you think DEC is long gone, think again! In many cases, the culture of DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation lives on in the form of the DEC Alumni and others.. This says a lot about the people who work and live in DEC. I wonder how many companies today can boast of this.
And oh btw, if you’re interested in ancient hardware, here’s something on the PDP-8.
Speaking of which, Edgar Schein has written a book about the DEC culture and its legacy. You can buy the book here.
I’ve no idea what happened but since Monday, April 5th, the roads have become one huge parking lot! Two hours to travel 17 kilometers ain’t fun. And DBKL is not very helpful at all! Looks like I might need my automobile MP3 player soon! Otherwise, listening to hitz.fm gets old occasionally and the DHL traffic reports on hitz usually are too late to be helpful.
Proof that God answers prayers and praying works!
No RAIN!
(This is despite the flooding in many areas, traffic snarls and light rain as we left for Pedas Linggi).
And here come the photos… (click the collage below to view the photos…)
For a short trip report, see the extended entry…
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Although the development cycle ends and extra hours are put in to meet the test deadline, I managed to squeeze some time in between playing Far Cry of course to try out my new Digital SLR… And here’s one shot I kind of like.
Finally! I picked up my 300D/Digital Rebel today. Filled up my Transcend 512Mb CF quickly and the noise level is so amazingly low… damn. Compared to my now end-of-life A70 (replaced by the A75), the noise is at least 4-stops less! Noise free ISO 400. Now I need a trip!
Wake up early, drive down to Midvalley, pick up some stuff from ACE hardware, then back to Casa Damansara II (Jeff’s place), make holes in the wall to mount IKEA curtain rails, then off to Section 14 to visit Eddie at Jaya DIY center and then he shows up some new fangled overdrived luxeon LED flashlight that costs a whopping RM289! Lunch at McDonalds, back to Casa and more drilling and the bloody wall must be made of adamantium for the drill not to penetrate!