He's a hustler

Entered the game: November 12, 1991
Left the game: September 13, 1996

Released 4 albums and 1 double album.
Released 3 albums and 3 double albums posthumously.
Appeared in 5 movies as either the lead or supporting actor.

All the while being:

Shot 5 times in November 1994
Incarcerated from Feburary to October 1995.

Say what you want to about the man, but the above facts are undeniable.

Tupac Shakur = Hustler

What's that colour

Metallica (The Black Album)



The Beatles (The White Album)



Weezer (The Green Album)

Can you start to see the trend here?

Jay-Z decided to call his last album “The Black Album” Ok then...

Is it just me or has Jay-Z completely missed the point.

I don't know what you take me as
Or understand the intelligence that Jay-Z has
I'm from, rags to riches, niggaz I ain't dumb

~ Jay-Z (99 Problems)

You keep telling yourself that.

Kill

“Kill kill kill kill kill
Kill kill kill kill kill
Kill kill kill kill kill
Kill kill kill kill kill
Kill kill kill kill kill
Kill kill!
Kill!
Kill kill kill kill
Kill kill kill kill kill
Kill!”

~ James (All within my hands)

This is exactly why Kirk, Lars and Bob Rock should never *ever* write song lyrics.

Useful Keys

Microsoft Word

Ctrl+Delete – allows you delete entire words in one keystroke

Ctrl+D – brings up the font window allowing you to select the important “subscript” and “superscript” effects. Especially important for lab reports with all those damn chemical and mathematical equations. Then again, you could simply add the subscript and superscript buttons to your toolbar.

Holding shift allows you highlight text as if you were using a mouse. (This was really useful in high school, when an essay was due except my mouse was broken)

Microsoft Excel

Split screen - allows you split the screen.

Freeze panes - freeze panes allows you *always* see certain cells.

Auto filtering - self explanatory. It filters your stuff.

Watch window

1. Select the cells you want to watch.

To select all cells on a worksheet with formulas, click Go To on the Edit menu, click Special, and then click Formulas.

2. On the Tools menu, point to Formula Auditing menu, and then click Show Watch Window.
3. Click Add Watch .
4. Click Add.
5. Move the Watch Window toolbar to the top, bottom, left, or right side of the window.
6. To change the width of a column, drag the boundary on the right side of the column heading.
7. To display the cell that an entry in Watch Window toolbar refers to, double-click the entry.

mp3 tag tool

If you’re like me, you’re probably anal retentive about mp3 organization. In that case, you’d find “Mp3 Tag Tools v1.2” to be a god-send.

It’s a really versatile program that allows you quickly edit a large number of mp3 ID3 tags in a few seconds.

When you open up the program, it displays info on each file (ie, filepath, title, filename, etc)

You could manually edit stuff like album name for each individual file, but you can select which ID3 tag section you want to modify.

You could change only the “Artist” section while leaving the other boxes untouched; for example, changing “Beatles” to “The Beatles” (yes, this is anal).

Personally, I like naming mp3 files as “track number (space) track title” because it retains the album track order and for track selection purposes, it allows me to read just enough info on my MP3 CD player. Luckily for me, there’s a custom file naming option.

The program also allows transfer from ID3v1.1 to ID3v2.x and vice versa. This transfer ability helps out for those files that only have ID3v1.1 tags; transferring to ID3v2.x is really important because it allows for much longer names than ID3v1.1. The program also allows the user to determine which tag sections he wants to transfer from ID3v1.1 to ID3v2.x and vice versa.

Finding it hard switching back and forth from the pictures and my post text? Well it wouldn’t be hard in Firefox, Opera, or some heavily modified IE browser. It’s your problem for not switching.

Antivir / Thunderbird

Antivirus

Norton antivirus sucks people.

There are 2 possible ways of obtaining Norton.

1. Waste time downloading it
2. Waste money buying it

Rinse, lather and repeat once a year. All the while, Norton is consuming an insane amount of system resources.

Or you could download AntiVir Personal Edition 6.27

It’s a free 3 Mb download, only takes up 10 Mb of resources and works damn fine. The only awful thing is no auto update for the frequent updates.

Download it.

RSS reader

I don’t know how everyone else reads blogs, but personally I use a RSS reader such as Thunderbird.

It instantly notifies you of any new updates without clogging up your email. It’s also free and easy to set-up.

How easy is it exactly? I don’t even have to explain it! Look at these pictures

The feed url will look something like this:

http://dickolaswang.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=goc

If someone has a better RSS reader or whatever, let me know already. However, since thunderbird doubles as my gmail email reader, I’m reluctant to switch (Gmail - hey, it has free POP access …although no one knows about my gmail account edwardochung@gmail.com).

Funny bits of dialogue v. 050717

Carolyn: oooohhh! OOHH GOD! I LOVE IT! UH UH

Buddy: YOU LIKE GETTING NAILED BY THE KING?!?!

Carolyn: OH YES I LOVE IT! FUCK ME YOUR MAJESTY!

Buddy: uhhhhhhhhhhhh

Carolyn: ahhhhhhh

Buddy: WHO’S THE KING??

Carolyn: OH YOU ARE!

Buddy: WHO’S THE KING?

Carolyn: ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Buddy: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

C'mon, you know you love it.