Been having a hard time finding a suitable notebook cooler for me. I’ve gone through almost all types of coolers available on the market today. Cheapest to the premium priced, single fan to 4 fans, usb powered to adapter powered but yet none did met my standards.

I decided to go ahead and build my own notebook cooler. Played around with acrylic and other materials but what happen was I need to jack my notebook up to get the best air flow. This worked fine while on my lap but not when place on a desk.

Some hours of thinking later I decided to convert my desk into a cooler itself. Started off drilling a hole fit for a 120mm fan powered by a 12v adapter and connected through a molex connector.

2 hours later I finally found my notebook cooler. Works like a champ!!

See pictures of my home made notebook cooler below.
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I am from Cameron Highlands, leaved there my whole life and moved to the city about 6 years back. It was good to go home and enjoy the weather, food and the people there. If I could find something to do there in IT I would move back now.

The trip was fun but at the same time I felt sad to see my once beautiful hometown now being transformed into a tourist attraction. There are shops all over the place now like mushrooms, prices going up, buildings coming up all over the place blocking the beautiful views, camping grounds being changed to food stores and souvenirs shops, waterfalls disappearing and much much more……..

The only thing left to enjoy now is the cold weather and the clean air. This will not be for long, over the past 6 years the temperature has raised about 3 degrees. So, imagine with all the new destruction in the name of tourism  what would happen in the next 10 years.

O ya one more thing, Camerons once boasted that it was a favorite amongst foreigners but not anymore. I hardly saw any foreigners this time. They come for the nature, you take it away and they have no reason to come back. It’s all for the local tourist now. They come, mess the place up and leave. sigh………….

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Finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1 today. Needed quite a few tweaks here and there but everything seems to be holding togather now.

Over the next week I’ll be fine tuning the functionality side of things so expect to see some errors. Learning the whole new Tags phenomenon now

For now these are the plug ins I have running on my shiny new WordPress installation.

1. All in One SEO Pack
2. Cforms II
3. Defensio Anti-Spam
4. FeedBurner FeedSmith
5. Get Recent Comments
6. Google XML Sitemaps
7. My Dashboard
8. Related Posts (Will be replaced by Simple Tags)
9. Simple Tags
10. Sociable
11. Subscribe To Comments
12. Tag Suggest Thing
13. Ultimate Google Analytics
14. WordPress Reports
15. WordPress Reports Most Active Widget

My free sketch by Samsudin Ismail is ready. Check it out above.

If you want your own caricature then head on over to free sketch and request one.

Sorry guys,

I won’t be posting anything new today.

First, freaking Streamyx has been screwed for the past 2 days. I call them up and all I got was the damn machine. ” Users might experience slow access to international sites”, “regular maintenance work is being carried out from 12am till 6am for 4 day”. SIGH…………..

Second, I was playing around with Compiz Fusion on my NB and desktop and some how managed to screw them both up. Guess this is what happens when you try too many things and can’t remember what you changed.

See you tomorrow.