Tech Industries get the Hit

That's it, The tech sector is getting the hit with layoffs.

Revision3 had just laid off 30% of their staffs. Dell laid off 10% and a lot more. I guess this is the DOT BOOM BUST. Here's a nice tip from Jason Calacanis. Invest in yourself during this downtime. Eg. Projects, further better your skills and it will pay off.

There shall be more updates on the layoff. Head to Techcrunch and search for Layoff Tracker and you'll see how many companies had laid off staffs and which that may have bagged up everything and closed down the business.

ROFLMAO

That's all that I'm gonna say. Hence, watch the video.

I got to post some stuffs!

Okay, this time, I was out busy with assignments. Rushing to finish one for myself, and getting some hardware working. Damn, that was busy. But still, engineering is a subject that I love!

Male Trait?

At times, I just love what I do. I'm a messy guy, but when it comes to engineering subjects, my mind pops up with ideas. At times, those ideas may seem to be too advance for the current technology, but still, it is still an idea to implement. It's still an idea. It's about being systematic in solving problems or storming for a new product or technology.

I realised how much I loved that kind of activity. It's as always the good old days back in Secondary school (High School) where I was taking the Engineering Drawing subject. My teacher, and god bless him that he was good and I really treasure the efforts that he used to teach the class, likes to give us questions, leave us alone to figure out solutions by ourselves. By hook or by crook, we come up with answers.

As of today, I was trying to finish assignments for the university. And that kind of feeling struck me, and it brought back memories. Still, I'm happy of what I've choose to do.

Looking for Electronic parts is hard in Ipoh

I've finally found the mixer I want in IPOH! YAY! But it's gonna cost me RM3.8k for me to get it. Oh, no, not so soon I'm afraid.

And I was out and about looking for Screened Twisted Pair cables. Can't find a single one. The best bet was one spindle, costing me RM300+. Okay. That's overboard.

Found some really good directional mics for my podcast, and it's going to cost me RM800. Found a pair of AKG. And for the first time, I'm gonna love high end audio. I think I'm turning into an Audiophile! SOMEBODY STOP ME! But anyways, High end headphones are always good. Some particular point is how accurately it reproduce sounds. I tested a pair of AKG K99 today at an audio equipment store. Here's the best bit. Any little bit of noise that an amplifier reproduce, you can hear it over the AKG. AWESOME! That's right down pricision. FTW! I need it, I'm gonna get it, it will cost me RM300. Pretty reasonable price compared to the ones that I have now, which was the Logitech Premium Headset 350 USB. That is also a good pair of headphones and mic for RM199. But if you push it to the limit, it will break. Mine's almost broken. Need to send it back for warranty.

Facebook in Malaysia

Is Facebook getting more popular in Malaysia?

Must be cool.

I GOT NAGGED

Okay, I've got to admit. I have not been updating my blog for a long time. And I've been really busy with a lot of stuffs. Part of it is me being out of the country for 8 days. I spent that 8 days in Australia.
Nice little experience.

Let's talk about Australia.

Weather there is about 6 degree C to about 29 degree C. Really cool weather. Loved it. Even more, I went out on shorts on one night. Chilly, and really cool! Pure bravery. Okay, that's just me blowing my own horn, but the temperature during Tuesday night is a little bit warm. About 20 degrees C. Loved the food there. Sadly, due to religious reasons, I'm not allowed to have beef. So, there are some sausage that I can't have, some Italian style cooking that I can't really have as well.

Okay, enough about the environment and food. I have to talk about the University that I studied in. I'm pretty sure that Professors of Havard University, Oxford University will be much better than the Professors that is in University of Southern Queensland. But still, I respect them. Main reason is the number of years they had with electronics and electricity plant. Gotta love them for that.

Okay, I'm not gonna talk about anymore stuffs about Australia. Great experience.

I'm still trying to start a lot of stuffs with GeeksWeeklyTV.com. I have a side project called Young Michaelians Alumni. A weblog for Michaelians young and old all over the world. I'm trying to get Mr. Peter Khiew to get involved, as he is the closest source to news about SMI. Will try to post update about that.

More, I remember that my good friend invited me into a group page called Circles99. It is still around, but with limited data and so on. Still, those who were invited into the private group founded by Yew Lok, log in, please. Just bring it back to life.

More next time around. Need to catch up with tech, and to finish a couple more projects.