So The Martian is either a Comedy or a Musical....

I guess only when the awards are given out that people realised the film The Martian is classified under the Comedy/Musical category in the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.

On first thoughts, either the panel behind the Golden Globe has mistakenly categorised it or there was some major screwups. On searching the news for why it was categorised as such, several things pop up.

Firstly, studio manipulating the film into a category that it has a chance to winning the award, Best Picture (Yay! who cares it is a comedy or musical category?!).

Secondly, other studios have been doing it! The other films in the same category, half are comedies, the other are not! No musicals at all anyway.

The winner and the nominees

The Martian

• The Big Short
• Joy
• Spy
• Trainwreck

From wiki

The Martian is a 2015 American science fiction film.
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film.
Joy is a 2015 American semi-biographical drama film.
Spy is a 2015 American action spy comedy film.
Trainwreck is a 2015 American romantic comedy film.

Even wiki disagrees that Martian is a comedy and definitely not a musical. The Big Short is about the market collapse. It probably needs a re-categorisating in wiki as well.

So this is a gerrymandering to prevent The Martian from pitting against the eventual Best Motion Picture The Revenant and preventing a loss. Well, every studio wants their films to pick up as much awards as possible and will not hesitate to do it.

Some articles on the categorisation!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3318139/Matt-Damon-s-Martian-considered-Comedy-Musical-HFPA-year-s-Golden-Globes.html

http://nypost.com/2015/12/10/the-golden-globes-think-the-martian-is-a-comedy/

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/goldstandard/la-et-mn-golden-globes-martian-joy-trumbo-20151112-column.html

http://www.bustle.com/articles/129066-why-is-the-martian-a-comedy-at-the-golden-globes-the-matt-damon-flick-creates-nomination

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Martian-Comedy-Now-Because-Golden-Globes-Gonna-Golden-Globe-94177.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/the-martian-wins-golden-globes-best-comedy

Extend your Whatapps subscription period for Android phone!

Android Whatapps users, worried about the free 1 year subscription expiring and not sure whether will Whatapps will extend for free for another year?

Found a partial solution that is almost as good as a permanent solution. I am not sure, but will Whatapps still be there 10 yrs down the road?

What you need to prepare :
1) An iPhone with Whatapps installed
2) A friend who do not mind their existing Whatapps account being deleted temporarily (will exit all chat groups and delete msg history)
3) (Optional) Backup msg history for yourself and the friend.

Steps
1) Friend to delete Whatapps account on his/her iphone.
2) Delete your Whatapps account
3) Friend to re-register Whatapps account using your phone number. You will receive the sms code from Whatapps. Give the code to your friend.
4) Once registration completed, register your Whatapps account on your phone. You will not get the sms code again but be able to register. Check the subscription date, it should extend for 10 years on your original expiry date.
5) Friend to unregister your Whatapps account on his/her iPhone and re-register using his own number back again~!

Presto~! 10 years extension  of your Android Whatapps~! We deserve the same as iPhone users~!

Battlefield 3 Gunslinger Trophy/Achievement

Gunslinger trophy requirement - Get 10 kills with each of the ten Back to Karkand weapons.

The 10 Back to Karkand weapons are the 10 weapons unlocked by completing the 10 assignments.

Racking up 10 kills each are still okay but some of the assignments will be tough.

Note that this is a glitched trophy and the glitch is that kills for FAMAS are not accumulative for others and that kills for FAMAS need to be done last and within one round. I am pretty sure of the non-accumulative nature as I had more than 50 kills before doing 10 kills in one round to unlock.

Does it need to be the last weapon? I am not sure but it does not hurt to leave it to the last.

Tip : For PS3, find one of the servers with high tickets (at least 200% of original tickets), small maps such as Metro / Grand Bazaar where you will spend more time fighting rather than running around or using vehicles or killed by vehicles.

Find the last alphabet of Singapore Registered Vehicles

Always been trying to remember car number plates to check the vehicle model.
Remembering the first 3 letters + number is easy but the last alphabet tends to slip the mind!
Finally found the formula to generate the last alphabet, in short the checksum of the license plate~! It will be good if there is a website so there is no need to be dependent on anything, just go to website, input and be done with it but till then, the excel file will have to suffice for it.

Excel file here - http://www.mediafire.com/?281rvor0tii2k47

The website to check is https://vrl.lta.gov.sg/lta/vrl/action/pubfunc?ID=EnquireTransferFee

Just key in the licence plate number and a future transfer date. Any date is fine since it is fake.

Anonymous and you

No, I am not talking about the hacker group Anonymous but the many Anonymous Key Board Warriors in front of the computer screen.

After the hit and run incident, Remy Ong's wiki article was under attack. Tried to clean up thinking it could be just some vandalism but it persists after a while. I requested for semi-protection and seems like some people pulled some strings and a few administrators come along to clean it up.

Once Anonymous could not operate, as registered accounts can be banned and anonymous IPs cannot edit, the article settles down. From the attacks, some are knowledgeable in editing wikis and hiding behind an IP address. Shame on you. Rant on the forums but do not attack a neutral place like Wikipedia. Due to the name-callings, lots of change history was redacted.

Singpost delivery bases list

http://www.singpost.com/db-lists.html

Post Office Code Description
DBAKD ANG MO KIO CENTRAL DELIVERY BASE
DBALD ALEXANDRA DELIVERY BASE
DBATD AIRMAIL TRANSIT DELIVERY BASE
DBBBD BRAS BASAH DELIVERY BASE
DBBDD BEDOK CENTRAL DELIVERY BASE
DBBLD BOON LAY DELIVERY BASE
DBBPD BUKIT PANJANG DELIVERY BASE
DBBTD BUKIT TIMAH DELIVERY BASE
DBCDD CRAWFORD DELIVERY BASE
DBCHI CHANGI DELIVERY BASE
DBCMD CLEMENTI CENTRAL DELIVERY BASE
DBCRC ROBINSON (SECTOR 04) DELIVERY BASE
DBDRD ROBINSON (SECTOR 06) DELIVERY BASE
DBFRD FARRER DELIVERY BASE
DBGMD GHIM MOH ESTATE DELIVERY BASE
DBGYD GEYLANG DELIVERY BASE
DBJED JURONG EAST DELIVERY BASE
DBJKD JALAN KAYU DELIVERY BASE
DBJRD JURONG TOWN DELIVERY BASE
DBKAD KATONG DELIVERY BASE
DBKLD KALLANG BASIN DELIVERY BASE
DBLDB SIMPANG BEDOK DELIVERY BASE
DBMND MARINE PARADE DELIVERY BASE
DBMPD MACPHERSON ROAD DELIVERY BASE
DBNWD NEE SOON DELIVERY BASE
DBOCD ORCHARD DELIVERY BASE
DBOWD OWEN ROAD DELIVERY BASE
DBPLD PAYA LEBAR DELIVERY BASE
DBPPD PASIR PANJANG DELIVERY BASE
DBRPO ROBINSON PO BOXES DELIVERY BASE
DBSGD SERANGOON GARDEN DELIVERY BASE
DBSRS BANKS ROBINSON SECTOR 06
DBSWD SEMBAWANG DELIVERY BASE
DBTBD TIONG BAHRU DELIVERY BASE
DBTED TELOK BLANGAH EAST DELIVERY BASE
DBTHD THOMSON ROAD DELIVERY BASE
DBTLD TANGLIN DELIVERY BASE
DBTMS MARINA SQUARE DELIVERY BASE
DBTPD TOA PAYOH CENTRAL DELIVERY BASE
DBTPG TANJONG PAGAR DELIVERY BASE
DBTRN NORTH CANAL DELIVERY BASE
DBTWD TOWNER DELIVERY BASE
DBUBD UBI DELIVERY BASE
DBWDD WOODLANDS DELIVERY BASE

Harry Potter 4sq bade

I like the insignia quite a bit!

Unable to run Installshield installer

Error Prompt : Error 2103 = Could not resolve path for shell folder

See follow website for resolution
http://www.appdeploy.com/msierrors/detail.asp?id=143

Alternatively like my case, the profile is corrupted so I deleted it off. Next try will take some time later but hope it works.
After login, it defaults to the basic profile and not of the normal profile loaded.
As the installer needs to refer to some registry settings for folder location. Being unable to locate the registry entry for the folders required, the installer fails.....


From OFF2000: "Internal Error 2103" Error Message Is Displayed During Setup
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q302472

This behavior can occur if the following registry key is missing or damaged:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

Recontract Penalty Charges for all 3 telcos

Singtel

https://www.singtelshop.com/support/support.html

Customers shall be permitted to upgrade their mobile equipment upon expiry of twelve (12) months from the commencement of the Equipment Undertaking Agreement by paying a charge of either $300 (for iPhone & selected smartphones*) or $200 (for all other handsets) in addition to the prevailing price of the mobile equipment

M1

http://www.m1shop.com.sg/Redirect?nextpage=menuterms.jsp&n=Terms%20%26%20Conditions

Additional $100 and $300 applies on the phone offers for customer who have completed at least 11 months of their normal handset contract and/or iPhone handset contract respectively.

Starhub
http://www.starhub.com/support/mobile/faq/mobileservices/recontractpolicy.html

The prevailing Early Handset Upgrade Fee for non – iPhone contracted customers is at $200 and for iPhone contracted customers is $300 or otherwise stated.


in summary -

ST -
change to iPhone and selected smartphones - $300
other phones - $200

M1 -
Previous contract buy iPhone - $300
Previous contract buy other phones - $100

SH -
Previous contract buy iPhone - $300
Previous contract buy other phones - $200

Remove duplicates rows from a table?

SQL> DELETE FROM table_name A WHERE ROWID > (
2 SELECT min(rowid) FROM table_name B
3 WHERE A.key_values = B.key_values);

Javascript checker

Found this site while being lazy to verify the js myself line by line.
Good parser which actually helps the lazy programmer and prevent future maintenance issues. The site is here.

Remove hyperlinks from Excel

I always had this issue with unwanted hyperlinks due to copying from other places, especially a website.

Finally google for an answer and it is a simple VB script, executable by a marco.
If you need it, here is it

Pray for Japan!

There are various ways to donate to Japan in helping them thru the crisis.

A very good thread in Hardwarezone Forum, Eat Drink Man Woman sub-forum if you like to contribute to help Japan.

[PSA] Donate to Japan Tsunami & Earthquake

You can click on the link on the top bar above~!

Opera Mobile Bookmark file

The file is opera6.adr (it should be in My Device/Application Data/Opera9).
Copy out and edit on a normal text editor.

How to pronounce famous brands

Anteprima (On-tay-pre-ma)
Anya Hindmarch (Un-ya Hine-march)
Agnes B. (Arg-nias Bay)
Azzedine Alaia (Aza-deen A-lye-a)
Balenciaga (Ber-larn-sia-ga)
Bally (Ba-li)
Balmain (Bahl-mahn)
Baume & Mercier (Bomi Merci-yay)
Braun Buffel (Brown Byu-furl)
Bvlgari (Bull-ge-ri)
Byblos (Be-blos)
Cacharel (Kare-sha-hell)
Cerruti (Cher-ru-tee)
Chantal Thomass (Shan-tal To-mah)
Charles Jourdan (Sharls Shor-Darn)
Charrier (Sha-ree-ay)
Che Che New York (Chee Chee New York)
Chloe (Klo-ay)
Christian Labourtin (Christian Loo-boo-tahn)
Christian Lacroix (Christian Le-kwah)
Claude Montana (Kload Moan-tana)
Commes Des Garcons (Kom Day Gah-sohn)
Coccinelle (Kor-chee-nel-li)
Courreges (Coor-ash)
Cynthia Rowley (Cynthia Rao-li)
Dolce & Gabbana (Dole-chay & Ger-bana)
Donna Karan (Donna Karen)
Dries Van Noten (Drees Varn Note-earn)
Emmanuel Ungaro (Ee-man-noo-el Oon-ga-ro)
Etro (Air-tro)
Fa:ge (Farge)
Furla (Foor-la)
Georg Jensen (Jog Yen-sen)
Gianfranco Ferre (Gianfranco Fair-ray)
Gianni Versace (Gee-ya-nee Ver-sa-chee)
Givenchy (Jee-von-she)
Guy Laroche (Ghee Lah-rosh)
Helmut Lang (Hel-moot Lung)
Hermes (Air-mez)
Herve Leger (Er-vee Lee-zhee)
Issey Miyake (Is-say Mi-ya-kay)
Jaeger-LeCoultre (Yay-ger ler Koot)
Jean Paul Gaultier (Zhon Paul Gol-tee-air)
Lanvin (Larn-von)
Loewe (Lo-ay-vay)
Longchamp (Long-shum)
Louis Feraud (Loo-ee Fay-ho)
Louis Vuitton (Loo-ee Vui-tong)
Marithe et Francois Girbaud (Mar-hi-tay ay France-sua Jee-bow)
Martine Sitbon (Marh-tin Si-bong)
Narcisco Rodriquez (Nah-see-so Rodri-gehz)
Pierre Cardin (Pier Karh-Donh)
Plein Sud (Plan Sood)
Romeo Gigli (Romeo Gee-li)
Salvatore Ferragamo (Sel-ver-tor-ray Fairer-gum-moh)
Thierry Mugler (Teary Moo-glay)
YSL Rive Gauche (YSL Reev Gosh)
Yves Saint Laurent (Eve Saint Lor-rong)

Interesting image search

Tineye looks interesting as it helps you find where your image come from. So you can find the rest of the pictures together or just a verification of what you have just seen!

My PS3 Games!

Not in any particular order at this moment

Winning Eleven 2010
ModNation Racers
Burnout Paradise
Final Fantasy XIII
Killzone 2
Vanquish
God of War Collection
God of War III
LittleBigPlanet
Red Dead Redemption
Time Crisis 4
Time Crisis: Razing Storm
Sports Champions
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2
Dead Rising 2
Little Big Planet 2
Killzone 3
3D Dot hero

Shipped~!
MGS4 and one more

HTML Entities

A website to display HTML Entities with their html codes~!
Nice~!

Xmas coming in a month or so, so here goes~! ❄❄❄❄

Some SEO tips + google recrawling rate

Re-crawl rate -
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=4c78d983bd68123f&hl=en

SEO tips
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=337fa24f413c07bd&hl=en

This software suck!

Flexerasoftware's Installshield

Reply from their offline activation

I am glad to assist you in activating your Flexera Software product. Our records show that you have already activated your product.

Once InstallShield is installed and activated, you must uninstall it to free the license. Once you have done so, you can install and activate InstallShield on another machine. We suggest that you follow the below-given procedures for uninstalling your product...

I am just using the bloody software at work and it prompted me to reactivate. I wonder whose problem is this! idiots!