The blog just got relinked yesterday before the power tripped (yet again). Everything’s back with a bit of trouble from snapdrive and help from fileden. I have a lot more free time now compared to the last 12 months (excluding last month =x) So yeah, this blog will be back to waste more web space like half the other blogs around the world. Hopefully it will stay that way when my university days return again.

Snapdrive used to be good… Recently, it ran into problems again and I can’t seem to upload my files. Before, my backup plan was to switch to hotlinkfiles until I saw that it’s files is expirable. It used to be there forever but they’ve change the criteria to deletion upon 30 days of inactivity. fileden also used to be non-expirable. Taking up the trend of recent free file hosting services, they’ve also changed the criteria to file deletion upon 60 days of account inactivity. Pretty annoying… I don’t like the possibility of deletion hanging above me no matter how unlikely. Especially since I know my blog is virtually dead or subjected to blogging mood swings. The other sites I listed also had the familiar time bombs but provided much lesser space/bandwidth that I would have liked and are therefore, marked out from my list-to-consider.

Between hotlinkfiles and fileden, I did not manage to find batch upload features so far in my account while fileden provided this feature and worked similarly to snapdrive.net (via uploading a .zip file) Furthermore, the deletion criteria between fileden and hotlinkfiles have a difference of 30 days.

I shall sign up for fileden and if it proves to be alright, I may move out all the files from snapdrive over to fileden and hope it’ll continue to do well.

It’s getting to be a nuisance, moving files here and there, backing up every little single thing -sigh-

edit: I found out why snapdrive wasn’t working. They don’t host .css files >.< forgot about that. Been a while since I uploaded anything to snapdrive. Fileden and hotlinkfiles do host them though. .js or .php are also accepted!

I got this link from a mailing list about an interesting concept. Basically it’s an experiment about putting something vulnerable and insignificant like a small robot with it’s final destination tagged on it and determine people’s response. Do they ignore it? Or interfere? The experiment takes place in New York, one of the well known busiest cities.

The results were surprising in that every tweenbot eventually got to their destination unharmed with random people’s help. Some just pointing the tweenbot to the right direction, some “saving” it from danger when it got stuck or was heading towards dangerous places like roads.

Read more about “tweenbots” here.

Found this pretty cool toy on deviantart called Line Rider

Please click “Play”. Don’t come back to me saying you “saw the fancy text” -__-”

There’s an updated and better version but requires you to install Microsoft Silverlight first.

At this moment, the video below is the highest rated one on youtube. There are many others that look better to me though. Some have colour and some have even more interesting tracks.