Where is your username registered?

Have you ever wondered if someone out there either has the same name as or is posing off as you?

I happened to stumble upon this website, Where is your username registered?, that gives a really insightful look into who on earth is using your favorite account id on some other website that you have never registered for.

That said, it may not be possible to get those who have taken your ideal id charged with identity theft. Nonetheless, it serves as a good reminder to "chope" your place in cyberspace. If not for yourself, at least you can make sure that your friends won't get conned by a clone of yours. Cheers!

a wix experiment... in progress

I was trying to rebuild my site on wix... looks good but am having problems with the rss feeds and cbox... here's a preview below.

Wix.com

speeding up my eee pc

For the sake of privacy (as I am tired of having strange unknowns follow me on twitter), I have disabled the twitter feed in my previous post.

Recently, having completed all my assignments, I have been fiddling quite a bit with my eee pc in a bid to improve its performance without actually reformatting it. The previous additional and removal of several programs for work purposes, coupled with inherent flaws in win xp has left my eee pc rather weak with slow boot and shutdown times.

After trying several alternatives, here's what I have tested and proven to be useful:

Regedit
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1590&page=32
Follow the instructions and edit your registry so that win xp kills applications fast when shutting down.

Bootvis
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034622.html
Run a boot+trace using Bootvis so as to optimize your boot time. Typically, this method can shave about 10-20% of your boot time.

Have fewer start-up programs
Adobe Reader and Windows Live Messenger are some programs that you probably won't need at start-up, so strike them off your startup list.

Modifying your desktop appearance
Turn off large icons, use windows classic, disable themes... just be old school and forget aesthetics.

Twittering...

I haven't been updating in quite a while because I feel uninspired and am being buried under homework (by the way, this is NOT retribution). It's easier to twitter and given my latest twitterfox add-on, I may just twitter from Firefox as my way of updating you. See below. All you have to do to see me micro-blogging without ever updating my blogger blog is to keep refreshing this page for the twitter updates below.

REMOVED by owner
I have since decided to remove the twitter updates for privacy reasons... but you can still follow me by joining twitter. :)