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	<title>Propagator &#187; Propaganda</title>
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		<title>New Layout!</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2010/01/18/new-layout-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After so long, Propagator finally has a new layout! It&#8217;s minimahl by Ahlera. It&#8217;s pretty nice barring the awkward looking search-bar. I&#8217;ll soon be amending the random taglines on under my blog name. Simplicity itself will be getting new sections featuring my other (writing, arts, design) works and such.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After so long, Propagator finally has a new layout! It&#8217;s minimahl by <a href="http://www.ahlera.com/" target="_blank">Ahlera</a>. It&#8217;s pretty nice barring the awkward looking search-bar. I&#8217;ll soon be amending the random taglines on under my blog name. Simplicity itself will be getting new sections featuring my other (writing, arts, design) works and such.</p>
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		<title>Site Updates</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2008/12/24/site-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, finally I decided to be a little more active at my blog and played around with it a little. I changed the theme of the blog, retaining the random subtitle of my blog as well as those pages. I&#8217;ve removed most of the outdated stuff, rewrote the About page, added a Projects page and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, finally I decided to be a little more active at my blog and played around with it a little. I changed the theme of the blog, retaining the random subtitle of my blog as well as those pages. I&#8217;ve removed most of the outdated stuff, rewrote the <a href="http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/?page_id=4">About</a> page, added a <a href="http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/?page_id=306">Projects</a> page and also adjusted my <a href="http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/?page_id=3">FAQs</a> a bit. That means I&#8217;m left with the reviews section which I&#8217;ve decided to work on since last month. Let&#8217;s just hope I can sustain the energy.</p>
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		<title>Adsurb Facts</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2008/01/21/adsurb-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finally recovered from that slight bronchi infection on my left bronchi that has got me trapped in cycles of fever-cold. Too bad I wasn&#8217;t quite in academic mood when I felt sick or I&#8217;ll be recording down my temperature every time I measure it (which I did very frequently and I was telling [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am finally recovered from that slight bronchi infection on my left bronchi that has got me trapped in cycles of fever-cold. Too bad I wasn&#8217;t quite in academic mood when I felt sick or I&#8217;ll be recording down my temperature every time I measure it (which I did very frequently and I was telling my sister I may have contracted the Compulsive Temperature-Taking Syndrome that struck our schools together with SARS). And then I could try plot a chart or something using Google Chart API and then link the image here or something. Some random announcements and some offers to be made, since the previous entry that happen to fall into any other categories in my blog was really long ago.</p>
<p>I encountered something rather weird today. There&#8217;s this J2 who happened to not know how to spell &#8216;absurd&#8217; and decided he wanted it to be the name of his sub-domain for his blog &#8211; at first I even thought it was intentional, now that&#8217;s what I call absurd. The worst part is really not that. It&#8217;s that erpz.net is going to host his blog, so soon there&#8217;s going to be one more blog on erpz.net besides Mib and mine (which really has been around since 2005). People who are interested in wordpress blogs at erpz.net with full setup free, you might comment in this entry to negotiate the monthly price, or leave your contacts so I may contact you. Right now ftp will probably be provided upon request and webspace is very flexible.</p>
<p>Another thing is that I am leaving this place to an island without Internet access for me (maybe they do have it for some other people). The trip would be quite a while and I&#8217;ll probably be missing from the blog for that while. The worst part is that I am not allowed to write about the encounters on that island and even doing that in secret might threaten my life. That&#8217;s absurd too, at least somehow.</p>
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		<title>Crossroads? Fret Not.</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2007/04/25/crossroads-fret-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mac or PC? It&#8217;s seriously obvious. I like the one titled &#8216;Office Posse&#8217; for the UK ads. This series of ads is really cool and I thought many other firms can use the same sort of concept. I tried it once &#8211; but the white background was unattainable, so I dropped the idea. And another [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mac or PC? It&#8217;s seriously <a href="http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/">obvious</a>.</p>
<p>I like the one titled &#8216;Office Posse&#8217; for the UK ads. This series of ads is really cool and I thought many other firms can use the same sort of concept. I tried it once &#8211; but the white background was unattainable, so I dropped the idea. And another <a href="http://www.apple.com/getamac/simple.html">truth</a>. I guess Apple is now going straight in their attack.</p>
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		<title>Protected: Stage of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2007/01/14/stage-of-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<title>Final Rush</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2005/09/06/final-rush-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t been blogging because we, students are now preparing for the final rush. I probably wouldn&#8217;t be blogging at all for the next 2 month so don&#8217;t expect any updates soon. I&#8217;ll be coming up with a new design here to incorporate my design for a few new and pretty nice sites I have designed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haven&#8217;t been blogging because we, students are now preparing for the final rush. I probably wouldn&#8217;t be blogging at all for the next 2 month so don&#8217;t expect any updates soon. I&#8217;ll be coming up with a new design here to incorporate my design for a few new and pretty nice sites I have designed for my projects.</p>
<p>This final rush that we are all in for would take roughly another month, ending sometime early November. Hence, this blog can be considered &#8216;shut&#8217; for the next 2 months. We still have no ideas for erpz.net. So I guess the frontpage would linger for a long time &#8211; it looks nice anyway. Bye, for now!</p>
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		<title>On MSN</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2005/09/06/on-msn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know talking on MSN can pose quite a lot of problem. When you are not looking at the person, you&#8217;d feel strange when you are telling a joke and you can&#8217;t see the response. Then you probably go, &#8220;LOL&#8221;, or &#8220;Bleah&#8221;. Or maybe you decide to invent your own &#8216;random&#8217; expressions &#8211; like &#8220;Vookibookk&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know talking on MSN can pose quite a lot of problem. When you are not looking at the person, you&#8217;d feel strange when you are telling a joke and you can&#8217;t see the response. Then you probably go, &#8220;LOL&#8221;, or &#8220;Bleah&#8221;. Or maybe you decide to invent your own &#8216;random&#8217; expressions &#8211; like &#8220;Vookibookk&#8221;, &#8220;Voogunihsabunda&#8221;.</p>
<p>Or perhaps others that do not start with &#8216;V&#8217;, like &#8220;Juulorubo&#8221; or most importantly, terms that cannot be pronounced, &#8220;Xusnaiur&#8221;. Then, you can give it a pronunciation yourself and no matter how well others may think they can read it, you say it&#8217;s wrong. And if you are really happy, you can fiddle with some punctuation and then you get stuff like &#8220;!Xusyllaernaiur&#8221;.</p>
<p>I was really inspired by this guy I was talking to, on MSN. He goes by a strange name, and a rather interesting appearance and [almost] commented that: &#8220;This dumb looking blog wif (sic) some green creature on the right muz (sic) be owned and authored by some dumb good-for-nothing guy who has nothing better to do in his damned boring life&#8221;. I must say&#8230;I agree with him absolutely!</p>
<p>Youngsters these days are really funny on MSN. They go &#8220;bleah&#8221; or &#8220;LOL&#8221; for almost everything that you tell them before giving their actual reply. It is as though they are having hiccups on MSN (except they don&#8217;t go &#8216;hic&#8217;)! And they substitute some of the most important key words used for communications with these &#8216;random expressions&#8217;. Here&#8217;s an example:</p>
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Vib: <em>Hi, long time no chat</em></p>
<p>*Insanity: <em>bleah</em> -> &#8216;Bleah&#8217; here meant: &#8220;Oh, hi!&#8221;</p>
<p>Insanity: <em>Who are you?</em></p>
<p>Vib: <em>Oh, it&#8217;s me. Vib.</em></p>
<p>Insanity: <em>bleah. is that so?</em> -> &#8216;Bleah&#8217; here meant: &#8220;Vib. I haven&#8217;t talked to you?&#8221;</p>
<p>********<br />
I don&#8217;t think you want to know the contents here.<br />
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<p>Vib: <em>Bye then!</em></p>
<p>Insanity: <em>bleah</em> -> &#8216;Bleah&#8217; here meant: &#8220;Bye then. See ya!&#8221;</p>
<p>*Insanity happens to be the nick of the guy I earlier mentioned. Interesting.
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<p>You see, these teens are really good at saving time (and words). Just one word to replace so many. We don&#8217;t really need languages anymore. *LOL* (Followed by a series of &#8216;bleah-ccups&#8217;) MSN is really a interesting place to hang out if you have sufficient contacts like these &#8211; and I really mean &#8216;Insanity&#8217;. I owe you one for giving me the inspiration to type all these crap. I think you should also go and start a blog so that you have a chance to open fire at this post of mine.</p>
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		<title>Fun with Sketching</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2005/08/31/fun-with-sketching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the boring sabbatical that does absolutely nothing, but a nice blog that discuss issues seemingly pertinent to all our lives since we are all Singaporean(s) [students]. If I am not wrong, this is a WACOM tablet powered webcomic: The Students&#8217; Sketchpad. I must say the stuff there are really well-drawn and there&#8217;s also interesting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not the boring sabbatical that does absolutely nothing, but a nice blog that discuss issues seemingly pertinent to all our lives since we are all Singaporean(s) [students]. If I am not wrong, this is a WACOM tablet powered webcomic: <a href="http://studentssketchpad.blogspot.com/">The Students&#8217; Sketchpad</a>. I must say the stuff there are really well-drawn and there&#8217;s also interesting content.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/shots/sketch.jpg" alt="Sketchpad" /></center></p>
<p>There tonnes of Singapore students out there expert in Arts, and I am quite sure I won&#8217;t be able to outdo them in practical arts, so I think I am better off in the Academic Arts stream in future. Then I will once again fall into the trap and become another student manipulated by the ministry as mentioned in one of their comics. I will be fooled to participate in the mini-education-ratrace and be following the &#8216;syllabus&#8217; and tricked by the &#8216;charisma&#8217; of the teachers into entering the politically-correct carreers such as doctors, lecturers, teachers, lawyers (not as welcomed), accountants and engineers.</p>
<p>Hey, artist these days get paid quite well. Of course, you have to be really good. And using a WACOM tablet and illustrating such comics probably means professionalism in Singaporean context. Nah, don&#8217;t fault me for over-generalisation &#8211; Singaporeans are like that. &#8216;Not all the Hwa Chong type are very Chinese&#8217; &#8211; a statement to counter the Singaporean-styled generalisation that Hwa Chong people are always Chinese-type.</p>
<p>This advertisement is brought to you by Vib &#8211; do go and take a look at that blog.</p>
<p>Further Findings (3 September 2005):</p>
<p><em>I realised that they aren&#8217;t using WACOM, they are working with a tablet. I guess I was acting a little too pro when I made that guess. I found out the truth <a href="http://youth.zaobao.com/friday/pages/711news1.html">here</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>Browsing Happily</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2005/06/08/pc-show-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely do propaganda for others, but I seriously think that Internet Explorer is screwed. Browser Happy is a site dedicated to educating people about the harms that Internet Explorer brings and promote alternative browser softwares. Do visit it and download the suitable browser for your browsing experience. By the way, if you browse this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I rarely do propaganda for others, but I seriously think that Internet Explorer is screwed. <a href="http://browsehappy.com">Browser Happy</a> is a site dedicated to educating people about the harms that Internet Explorer brings and promote alternative browser softwares. Do visit it and download the suitable browser for your browsing experience.</p>
<p>By the way, if you browse this site with Internet Explorer, and then compare it with the view on Mozilla Firefox, you will realise that there seems to be a difference in the way they process the colour codes of the background. I am not sure why but it doesn&#8217;t make a single sense. Basically, Internet Explorer doesn&#8217;t really deliver the content as desired by the programmer at times, in fact, most of the times.</p>
<p>Personally, I use Firefox as a primary browser, with Internet Explorer as the secondary. This is mainly because of the large number of Visual Basic driven site, which I have to access. Firefox don&#8217;t seem to be able to process certain of the Visual Basic coding. Too bad. Nonetheless, Internet Explorer is still giving me problems like crazy pop-ups. In school, we also see those computer-dumb (not illiterate, just dumb) teachers who have tonnes of spywares and virus on their computers, the explanation &#8211; Internet Explorer.</p>
<p>So the final message: Avoid the Blue &#8216;E&#8217;, Down with &#8216;IE&#8217;. </p>
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		<title>Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://simplicity.erpz.net/blog/2005/06/05/nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Comrade Vib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, this PC Show post got posted about 7 times on my blog. I have no idea why. I probably clicked the publish button a little too many times (my sister disconnected my computer from the net at the exact moment when I clicked publish for the first time). Mib&#8217;s life is screwed. So is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somehow, this PC Show post got posted about 7 times on my blog. I have no idea why. I probably clicked the publish button a little too many times (my sister disconnected my computer from the net at the exact moment when I clicked publish for the first time).</p>
<p>Mib&#8217;s life is <a href="http://blog.erpz.net/archives/2005/06/screwed.html">screwed</a>. So is US actually any better than Singapore? Probably not. But still, we are screwed by the system over here. This is a <a href="http://geek.bo0.com">great example</a>. As for Terry, he is so screwed by his <a href="http://teddy-o-ted.blogspot.com/2005/06/power-down.html">power supply</a>. Okay, enough of screwed stuff. For those so wants peace, with nothing exciting, please vist <a href="http://erpz.net">Newspeaker</a>. Given the little crap there, I doubt anyone actually discovered that Newspeaker have existed for almost a month already!</p>
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