Official Kinect drivers now available for Windows and Ubuntu

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If the recent demonstrations of the Kinect's potential have you all hot and bothered, brace yourself: official drivers are now available for both Windows and Ubuntu. It's all thanks to the OpenNI (Natural Interaction) initiative, where PrimeSense -- the company behind the Kinect -- happens to be one of the founding members. - Download Squad

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Kinect’s new Sex Game gets canned

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Imagine that: Study shows that thinking about eating can reduce food consumption

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Three Little Litter

Kittens are just so cute. Is there any way to say that and still sound very manly?

Pixel's first batch of kittens are growing up so gracefully. The more you spend time playing with them, the more you get entertained. Only the other day, all three were climbing up and down the aquarium table, occasionally staring at the tank, curious at the swimming fish. I wonder what's going on in their head at that time?

These litter are well behaved too. When I gave them a bath, they didn't try to fight back. I'm glad.

Last week, Cotton gave birth to a kitten which totals our cats to 14!

A Royalty Visit

Normally, I'd avoid uploading photos that include me on my blog, especially one so unflattering, but this is a special occasion. Granted, I had to re-edit the above photo because it was out of focus (you can still see it's not that sharp). Still, I managed to ask His Majesty to come and take a photo with me.

At one point, when His Majesty was visiting our English Centre, I even asked him if I could take a photo of him with my colleagues (they were rather shy y'see). That photo is below.

Levlie At 21

I'm not a big fan of Secret Recipe. I think the food is overrated but I have to agree on how good their cakes are. I'm not much of a desert person and I hate sponge cake but I'll eat cheese cake all day long and never get bored of it. I'm starting to move away from the main topic here pretty fast talking about food.

Yesterday was my sister's Syamimi's birthday. She turned 21 and now is legal to gamble - if gamling was legal here to begin with but that's besides the point. She is now a full blown adult and is now old enough to do whatever an adult can do. [more photos after the break]

Mrs Exclusive's 27th!

Today for the most part has been interesting and fun, especially having lots of food around. We're hanging out in the living room now, laughing at a certain video from YouTube that's been circulating around Twitter for the most part of the day though that's hardly the highlight of today. I'm just a bit distracted now because of it, thanks to Izad and a few others.

Today is JuLeZz's birthday and we celebrated it at home with some of her friends, enjoying lots of food (yes, if you haven't noticed it yet, I'm putting emphasis on it). Tonight has been very relaxing, no rush, no pressure, great food, great company, and best of all, celebrating the birthday of the one person that matters in my life. I wish JuLeZz a great new year, all the best, lots of hugs and may God bless you, always.

Thanks for the everyone who brought food by the way! (More photos after the break)

First Day Sungkai and 17th Birthday

We spent the first day of breaking our fast at my parents' house. There were 8 of us yesterday and we took up most of the dining room. It wasn't just the first day of Ramadhan at home, we were also celebrating my brother's 17th birthday so we decided to have a big feast.

Before we got there, JuLeZz and I prepared food just for the occasion and when we got there, the kitchen was full of people cooking and food being prepared. We continued the preparing food there.

I haven't got much to write about now so I wish a good new year to my brother! Happy 17th birthday!

Dug From A Virtual Grave

I love Google. You never know what interesting things you'll find online when you keep going further through the page results - and find something interesting I did when I went and googled my old website. By old, I mean one I designed 10 years ago. And no, I'm not sharing the link. There are way too many embarrassing things on the page which I can't believed I ever posted online.

Going through the site brought me back to the old internet days  where websites were created through free hosts such as Geocities and homestead. Everyone online was into it. We didn't have Facebook. We didn't have Twitter. Our means of online-socializing was through iRC and iCQ. But those were only the big ones. (More after the break)

August Birthdays

Only two days ago, we celebrated my dad's 51st birthday at Villa Mauri and at some point, everyone got to talk about getting birthday gifts for each other. You see, August is a month of many birthdays for my two families - my two families being mine and JuLeZz's. The torrent of birthday celebrations is marked by my dad's birthday followed by my unable-to-keep-quiet-and-keep-his-comments-to-himself brother's birthday three days after, then my ever so lovely wife JuLeZz's, my didn't-get-to-buy-you-Millie's cookies-coz-you-don't-deserve-it sister's birthday as it continues to my two i'll-go-where-you-go sisters-in-law. And that's not even mentioning cousins, aunts and friends' birthdays.




As you can see, it's a full month and though it may seem a handful to celebrate, it's always fun to do so when it's your immediate family. Nothing like glorious free food. And to make things even better, Ramadhan begins tonight and celebrations will be with held with great feasts!

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There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd, to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
What a hog! To swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog ...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat...
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse -
She's dead, of course.

Mrs Exclusives' 2010 Birthday Gift

In almost one week time, it'll be JuLeZz's birthday and since she loves cooking and baking so much I got her the above gift to complete our kitchen! Thought I'd surprise her by setting it up early.

Oh shoot! Gotta cut this short now, she's home!

Santet's 28th Birthday

Live band playing outside

Just spent the evening at Santet's place for his 28th birthday celebration. It was a good, fun and relaxing night. One that I haven't had for awhile. One of the best things about barbeque parties is the food of course. It's been awhile since I've had home barbequed chicken! With my grill broken, I couldn't really barbeque anything.

Return of the Lats

Someone's back for her summer holiday (which I almost forgot) but that's not even the best part! The best part is that we got to go and eat out! That was Monday and the whole afternoon I was bombarded with my mom's text asking me to pick a place for dinner to take out my sister (oh btw, it's my sister who just came back for her Summer Holiday).

Before that actually happened though, on the way there, at the circle of death (that's the huge roundabout in Gadong), I accidentally hit another car. The driver braked all of a sudden before entering the roundabout because he had second thoughts! It wasn't a bad accident but I ended up paying for everything. There goes my savings for this month. Bummer.

We ended up eating at Seafood Paradise in Kiulap. Didn't end up taking a lot of photos coz I spent most of the time eating.

What We Do At Work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy which is why I spent a good part of today at work editing this photo - with the help of two other teachers as well. Original edited photo below.

Mom's 51st Birthday

Today's my mom's birthday and we celebrated it last night at iLotus. Food was good there as always but phone reception is bad - not that that has anything to do with the food. Anyway, thought I'd share the pictures here since I don't go to facebook anymore. Check out the slides.

Internet Hugs

Photo Mess

Just something i created out of Photo Mess. simple one use photo app from the apple store. It does nothing else other than create a photo collage.

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Invisible Homeless Man

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My World Cup 2010 Food

Went to Kasbah before the Argentina VS Germany match to get a lamb doner, fries and scallop potatoes. In support of the World Cup 2010, I'm also having coke in the World Cup glass from McD (we finally collected all of the colours).

Half time now. Time to enjoy my food.

Modified Vuvuzela

It's not over yet it seems. I wish I had one for lastnight's cursed match.

How To Fix iPhone 4's Problem

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PicPosterous Test

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Posterous Post

I completely forgot about posterous! The only reason I remembered it is because I saw PicPosterous on the Apple App store. I might use it just coz it can post to multiple social sites - especially to my multiple blogger accounts and tumblr. That way, I can save time - no need to open multiple apps. Plus, the photo gallery looks really nice.

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Vuvuzela in the hands of a Musician

The vuvuzela is now a musical instrument. Bravo Brahms! Now where can I get one of those?

PS: It still sounds annoying.

Tweeps' Birthdays

Wishing my two cousins a Happy Birthday and an advance birthday wish for my brother, very advance. Hope you enjoyed the day!

Music Metaphors

A table showing you directions on how to get to certain places. I'm sure they'll sound familiar. That's because they're from popular songs which I'm sure you'll know of.

World Cup Calendar

If you are a World Cup fan you should definitely check out this cool World Cup Calendar app that shows you results of past games and upcoming games just by highlighting the dates. It also highlights the team that's playing and shows the time and place of the matches.

I took the time to screen capture the above image of last night's big results and dedicate this post to Portugal. Though I didn't watch the whole thing but I did however feel really bad for the Koreans towards the final few minutes.

Vuvuzela hits the Mascot

The vuvuzela seems to be getting out of hand nowadays - at least that's what some people seem to make it look all over the internet. First, the Vuvuzela Hero then comments like "vuvuzela-free" contents and now, the 2010 mascot. Check out the funny illustrations below from Cagle Cartoons.

Related articles

• Vuvuzela enhanced websites (digital-teacher.co.uk)
• Florida Marlins Bring Hated Vuvuzelas to Major Leage Baseball (shoppingblog.com)
• Ban vuvuzelas? Spain seeks the opposite at its practices (usatoday.com)

Facts

Stuff No One Told Me

I stumbled upon Alex Noriega's new blog, stuff no one told me (but I learned anyway), and it's full of words that just hit the right places. Here are some of my favourites.

Revenge On The Tracks

I've been playing Red Dead Redemption and just now I was so annoyed at one of the random encounters where a woman calls you and four bandits then ambush you when you approach. So I hogtied the woman with my lasso (after dealing with the four bandits who didn't last long) and put her on the back of my horse. Then on to my next mission - dropped her off in the middle of a train track. Moments later... well, I'll let the following video explain what happened.



Didn't think I'd get a trophy out of it though.

How We Procrastinate

Don't deny it. Admit it. It's true. YOU do this.

THE Break Up Letter

Here's a tip for you teens on how to successfully break up. Not over phone calls and definitely not over a text or email. This is the way.

WOW Player GF deletes WOW Characters

A WOW player came back only to find that his girlfriend deleted all his WOW characters. Furious, he hit and smashed his computer screen... and a few more stuff happened off screen. Wow, imagine putting all those hours on your WOW characters only to be deleted just like that.



Girlfriend Deletes WOW Characters, Dude Destroys Computer - Watch more Game Trailers


I think the girlfriend could've left him and looked for other guys rather than do this. Seriously, why stick with him? I wonder what happened after this...

Wrong Side Of The Road Dude

Funny thing happened today on the way out of The Mall. I was driving out from the basement through the exit next to Cheezbox. As I was entering the curve at the bottom of the slope, to my utmost surprise, a white car was driving towards me!

The driver seeing me stopped the car and realized he has entered the wrong road! JuLeZz and I had to control ourselves from laughing really hard as the driver reversed the car out. And the moment the car exited, apologized to me by raising his hand, we just couldn't stop laughing our heads off!!

Current Annoyance

There's just one thing I hate on twitter right now, people tweeting live World Cup actions. I mean, it's one thing to tweet abour news outside the game but really, you think you are the only one watching? And sometimes, some people just don't care!

Just imagine updating twitter only to get a torrent of football match reports! It's not easy to find actual tweets that matter. Let the pros report it. People don't follow you for your live World Cup updates. Stop it and just enjoy the freakin game.

Google's World Cup Fever

More World Cup Fever: I only just noticed this when you google for "world cup". Not only does it show you the latest results and upcoming matches automatically at the top but scroll down and the usual Gooooooogle becomes...

World Cup Strategies

Just something to add to the current World Cup fever. Check out the following image.

The Old Fecks

Just wanna wish Happy Birthday to Mr Faizul who is back home right now. If only you were here, Aqil would've paid for your lunch.

SEEDS 2 Prank By Seniors

SEEDS 2 finally arrived last weekend and it is great to see that we've managed to come this far. Watch for the blog post over at Commitment 2 Servitude or The Exclusives but here, I present to you a short video of the SEEDS senior bullying the juniors. Mind you, this was only recorded the last few seconds. The whole prank lasted quite some time.

What's Most Important Nowadays

I'm in a blogging mood and I would like to share the following photo. This is what everyone was doing while watching a World Cup match on TV.

Blogger's New Template Editor Rocks

Forget what I said in the last post. Blogger's new template editor is awesome! It's so easy to use that it makes it easy for anyone to customize their blog. Best part is it's a WYSIWYG editor. You'll preview your blog as you make changes without the need to save and click "view blog" just to see what it actually looks like.

Now if only it's easy to blog on other devices like wordpress. Anyone knows if blogger has an app like wordpress on the apple app store? For free?

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Blogging here again

I'm back to personal blogging. In fact I've made two new blogs. Check our http://theexclusives.wordpress.com and http://commitment2servitude.wordpress.com. Those two blogs have their own purposes and I needed a casual blog where I dont need to worry about layout and making things look nice. Then I remembered this blog.

Blogging Moved For Now

I have decided to update mostly via The Exclusives Blog and Shutter Speech blog. This blog will remain ... dormant for awhile. Please direct yourself to shutterspeech.blogspot.com (or shutterspeech.com for the main site) or theexclusivesblog.blogspot.com (or theexclusives.net for the main site). Thank you.

Heavyrain Aftermath

Lastnight's rain was crazy. I've never heard it come down so hard continuously that long. But the aftermath was worse. Driving to work this morning, I saw the underpass at the Kiulap roundabout flooded, the roads filled with mud and a landslide covering over half of a road. My 30-40 minutes drive to work turned to over an hour. Let's hope that the coming days won't be as bad.

More photos over at shutterspeech here.

Litters In A Basket

We've got a few new kittens added to our already huge amount of cats at home. Well, a "few" wouldn't really be a good word...