Watch Out!

Bird flu is getting more mobile and deadly. I guess I would have to say watch out for it, but not in the good way that my lovey means, regarding "The Ballad of Jack and Rose".

Found out that if you receive several attachments in Gmail, there is an option to "download all attachments", wherein Gmail packs the attachments into a .zip file on the fly, for your downloading convenience!

By the way, gz is back from Brunei; he's been back since the start of the week, but time flies... He thoroughly hated it, and I'm sure I would have too. In fact, I probably would have hated it worse, if such measures carry any validity at all.

Speaking of measures, Singapore has revised target BMIs (body-mass index) downwards, since Asians supposedly have more fat, so Straits Times merrily reports on the Front Page that "Many more S'poreans are obese".

No one else at home seems to be as big a fan of the lights as I. The setup is that there are two sets of lights in the living room, one with 5 bulbs (on the side nearer the computers), and the other with 3 bulbs. The one with 3 bulbs was on, and my dad was reading the newspapers. I came up to the computer, switched it on, and switched on the other set of lights in the living room and my dad asked me to switch the other one off (the one with 3 bulbs).

Do I take too many words to carry off a simple idea? Maybe I am too detailed. But certainly I am prolix. And I've still got phlegm, still have trouble sleeping because lying down makes me cough. But it's getting better.

Have made quite a bit of progress with the website. Did a SQL double INNER JOIN to combine data from 3 tables, so have a nice RecordSet. The code is able to upload and delete files off the server like nobody's business, which is great.

Regarding the casino issue, I'd just like to say that I am not in favor of it. Actually, I'd like to say more about it, that it will ultimately be a negative sum game. You see, casinos are lavish to seduce gamblers, and the reason why they can be so obscenely, gratuitously ostentatious is that they make a hell of a profit from the odds.

It can become incredibly expensive "entertainment", one would do better pay $10 to watch a movie. At least a movie isn't totally about money, there's some artistry involved. Casinos and gambling are all about the money, unless it's a round of low-stakes poker among friends.

Initially I thought maybe a casino could do good if the government gets to appropriate a huge chunk of the profits, but I doubt that's going to happen; the casino operator is still going to be rolling in serious money. There will still be ostentatious inducements and spectacular wastage.

Agreed to go running at 8:15am on Saturday at MacRitchie... hope I don't die...