Windows Live Messenger Error code: 8e5e0531

A few days ago, I was told by my Windows Live Messenger (if I remember correctly, it was version 8.5) that I can’t login to my MSN because there is a newer version of Windows Live Messenger. I was also given the link to the download page. So I clicked on the link: get.live.com/messenger/overview and downloaded the installation file. But the installation file doesn’t seems to work. Because its an online installation process, so I thought its the connection problem to the installation server.

So I waited for a few hours, I tried to install it again, same thing, installation failed. So I search for alternative source for the installation file and came across this webpage –> download.live.com/messenger. I finally managed to login to my MSN after the download and installation.

Picture taken from http://download.live.com/messenger	Picture taken from http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

 

End of nightmare? NO~!

After the update from Windows Live Messenger Version 8.5 to Windows Live Messenger Beta Version 2009 (Build 14.0.5027.908) from the download.live.com/messenger,

it still gives me problem~!

Sometime, I am able to login to my MSN, sometime I can’t! And even when I am logged in, after a few hours, it will automatically log me out~! Then after the logout, my attempt to login again gives me this Error Code: 8e5e0531.

So I tried Google the solution to solve the Error Code: 8e5e0531 problem and I came across this webpage –> Click Here.

It says,
“First of all you can try rebooting your machine then you could try use the repair function on msn.

You could also try resetting ur modem and make sure your firewall is not blocking msn or the ports.”

I tried and it really works. But to restart PC every few hours (because the WML log me out every few hours) is really very troublesome. If anyone has a solution for this problem, please do leave a message on the Chatting Zone. Thanks in advance.

Purple or Blue?

Happens to came across this blog post here. It is basically about 2 people arguing about colours.

josh524 claims that the "My Blog" as shown in this picture is purple.
cathyc claims that the "My Blog" as shown in this picture is blue.

If you do not want to read the details, you can scroll down to read the conclusion directly.

Alright if you choose to read on, let's now study this picture with the help of Adobe Photoshop's Colour Picker tool ...

In case you do not know what RGB value is, I shall briefly explain it here. It is represented in this format #RRGGBB where RR is the hexadecimal value representing the primary colour Red, GG for Green and BB for Blue.

The default blue have RGB value equal to #0000FF.
The RGB value for the blue as shown in that picture is #0000FE.

The default purple have RGB value equal to #800080.
The RGB value for the purple as shown in that picture is #871F78.

The default indigo have RGB value equal to #4B0082.
The RGB value for the indigo as shown in that picture is #2E0855.

The RGB value for the "My Blog" as shown in that picture is #1F224F

FYI: The so call default value here means I type in the colour names(eg. blue, purple, indigo, ...) in this website and then use Adobe Photoshop's Colour Picker tool to get the RGB value.

The definition of purple can be found in Wikipedia over here.
It says, "Purple is a general term for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue. It is formed (in both subtractive pigment and additive light combinations) by mixing the primary colors red and blue in varying proportions, with possibly a very small quantity of the third primary color (green for light or yellow for pigment).
...
A difference in retinal sensitivity to red and blue light between individuals can cause further disagreement."

So that means as long as the G value is smaller than both the R value and the B value (G<R & G<B), then it can be generally be said to be purple colour. Whether or not it looks more towards red or blue will depends on each individual's retinal sensitivity.

So now let us break the "My Blog" colour down to its primary colour,
R = 1F (in Hexadecimal) = 31 (in Decimal)
G = 22 (in Hexadecimal) = 34 (in Decimal)
B = 4F (in Hexadecimal) = 79 (in Decimal)

The observation shows:
(G<R & G<B) is False. Therefore it cannot be said to be purple colour. So josh524's statement is proven to be False.
In addition, B is more than G is more than R (B>G>R). So Blue is the dominating primary colour in the "My Blog" colour. So cathyc's statement is proven to be True.

Conclusion:
josh524's statement saying that the "My Blog" as shown in this picture is purple is proven to be False.
cathyc's statement saying that the "My Blog" as shown in this picture is blue is proven to be True.

我的電台 FM S.H.E

Disclaimer: The music shown here are of lower quality. Please support the original.

Saw S.H.E's news on TV, knowing that they have came up with new album. I listened to this album already and I find that the songs in this album are nice!
Highly recomended~!

Max Payne Movie - In Theaters Oct 17 2008

Saw this trailer on the MRT that TV that display the next train timing. Looks cool!

Played both the Max Payne and Max Payne 2, PC Games last time. The game website is here. But I don't remember the flying creature in the trailer. In the game, all the enemy is human beings...

Maybe movie they add in some supernatural creatures to make it more interesting. Look forward to watch this movie.

Oh yah, this is the Official Website for the movie maxpaynethemovie.com

And this is the trailer I am talking about.

Create Your Avatar

Want to create a nice avatar? Lack of photoshop skills to do the job?

Try this one over here. Its very simple and user-friendly as shown on the left, a screenshot of the website.

Poll Result: Out of these 6 sports, which one do you like?

Poll opening date: 24/09/2008
Poll closing date: 30/09/2008
Allow visitors to select multiple answers: Disabled

As shown above in the poll result, 4 people participated in this poll and 50% like Soccer, 25% like Badminton and another 25% like Tennis.

Conclusion:
This poll lacks of paticipants and therefore its result does not reflect the majority.

My Brand New Greenish Blog Layout

Woohoo~~~ I think it looks neater than the previous one.

Wahahaha! Last week was my 1 week break a.k.a. Recess week for this semester. Busy doing projects and reports. But still managed to do some sports which I am always lazy to do before this break. Met up with NYC last Tuesday(23/09/2008) at our nearby CC for badminton for an hour. 1st time play there after it was renovated. What? Which CC? Oh its called the 什么 Hen 什么 De 什么 Son one...

Also met up with some same course friends for a sport marathon. 1st we played badminton, then table tennis and lastly basketball. Then after that I still went out to meet my RSAF friends for KTV... what a happening Friday(26/09/2008). Then until now, I can still feel the tiredness. Haiz...








This is the previous layout for comparison purpose. Dont you think the Green one looks neater than the Blue one?

Younha

Play Album
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Play Album
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Credits to Haoting.com

There Goes my AdSense...

No more Ads by Google on my site...

Now lets try NuffNang instead.

Claire 郭静 《下一个天亮》 校园演唱会

Wahahaha! Last minute got her ticket! Went to her concert right after the last lecture of the day.



This is the ticket.


She is very friendly, walk around the LKC Lecture Theatre to shake hand with the audiences along the way while she is singing. And I managed to shake hand with her! Wahahaha!!!

There is this guy who even managed to hug her!!! Lucky one...


Photography is not allowed once the concert start. So not many photographs... Haha...

Quiz Spoiler... Hahaha!

Wahahaha! In response to NYC's post, I went to do the quiz and I got it all correct at 1st attempt too!


How I do it?

First, right-click on the quiz page and select "View Source" (that is if you are using IE browser, not sure how to get to the view source option for browsers like FF and Opera). You should be able to find those codes highlighted in the red box in the following picture, in the "View Source".



The thumbnail picture is a bit blured, you might need to click to see the original size so that the text in the picture is legible.

In the picture, you will be able to see the "true" and "false" corresponding to its jpg number. The "true" means that jpg is female and "false" means that jpg is not female.

Next, right-click on each of the photos you see in the quiz, and select "Properties".
You should see something like the following 2 pictures.

An example of jpg number ranging from 1.jpg to 8.jpg Therefore the answer=Female	An example of jpg number ranging from 9.jpg to 16.jpg Therefore the answer=Shemale

And that is how I got it all correct at 1st attempt for this quiz. But this method is not always applicable to the quizzes on the Internet. Some might not have the answer in the "View Source".

Test post using MS Word 2007

Test post using ms word 2007.

Badminton Racket Restrung at 21 lbs

The left side photo is the string that comes with the racket. Its Yonex BG-65 string.

















The right side photo is after spending S$16.00 to get it restrung using Yonex BG-66 string at 21 lbs. Got it done at Queensway Shopping Centre.

Backlight Problem of Samsung SGH-I450

Alright I finally settled my handphone problem mentioned in the earlier post fixed.

The Backlight Problem is caused by the incompatability between the Singtel 3G SIM card and the I450 firmware. Heard that is due to some difference in the voltage specs...

Went down to the Samsung Mobile Phone Customer Service to ask for a fix to this Backlight Problem, but they told me that the another version of the I450 firmware is not yet ready and asked me to leave down my contact number so that they can contact me when its ready. And they say it will most likely take around 1 or 2 months. They also told me that the I450 firmware that my phone is having now, does not have this problem with an older version of Singtel 3G SIM card, but they are not very sure of what version or which batch of the Singtel SIM card it is.

So, I walk all the way to ComCentre which is located somewhere nearby to get the SIM card changed. Done, Backlight Problem solved! Hurray!!!

Henderson Waves

Went to Henderson Waves to see see look look.

Alright let's take a look at the photos taken using my Samsung SGH-I450 camera phone. On the left hand side, you can see that is a photo taken under bright lightings condition. Hmm... looks pretty good at thumbnail size.

But if you were to click on it to see the original resolution, you will notice that those relatively fine details were blurred. Its especially obvious when you look at the gress patch.


On the right hand side, its a photo taken using digital zoom at max. Arh~~~ pixelated photo... very bad.

We saw monkeys on our way to Henderson Waves!



Yeah finally reached Henderson Waves.

Now its time for some night shots.
 


The following photo was being processed before to make it such that the people in the photo and the colour of their clothes are at least visible. When it is really very dark, the flash of my camera phone is totally made useless.

KTV session after Badminton

[Lau SK, Eddy Lee, Yew SC, Xiao Hong, Joyce, Jimmy, Vinson(went off early), Jinde, Me(Taking Photo)]

This photo is actually formed by 2 photos, that means I took 2 photos and merge them up to become this wide photo.

Where am I? I am the one holding my Samsung SGH-I450 2MP camera-handphone. Hahaha! Alright as u can see that the camera does not capture good photos under dark lightings condition. But at least can still see the human shape ah.. lol!

Samsung SGH-I450

Yes! Its already 2 years since I last bought my Samsung SGH-E770. Its time to change new handphone. Today went out to many places to look for Samsung SGH-I450. It is not a very new handphone. Its already out in the market for around 1 year. Many handphone shops have already stop stocking in this model.

The photo on the left side,
is the Samsung SGH-I450.

The photo on the right side,
is the Samsung SGH-E770.

I bought mine at hello!@Bugis Junction there at 4:35pm. Heng there still got stock. This model comes with 3 different colour casings. White/red, White/blue and Black/red. I took the Black/red colour. I find those white one not so good because those white casing usually turns a bit yellowish after some time. Heard that the shop left 2 stock for the Black/red, I was so lucky... haha...

Spent S$198.00 for the phone with 2 years plan with Singtel.

Next I head down to Sim Lim Square to get the screen protector. Why sls? haha! Because last time I bought my screen protector for my Samsung SGH-E770 there. Just pay S$12.00 and the shop keeper there will help you clean the screen and paste the protector on. Good for me because I am not good at doing the job myself.

This time when I went there, I could find neither the screen protector for this model nor any screen protector that has the same screen size as I450. So I go and ask the shop keeper there and she suggest to use a bigger one to cut to 2.4" for my I450.

Total damage: S$210.00

Unlike many Samsung handphone, I450 have relatively louder ringtone to me. But in terms of camera, its just "so so only".

Now the only problem I found on I450 is the "Backlight Problem". When left idle, the backlight will auto light up itself at 30sec interval. Not sure if it is a feature or what, but I think that will drain the battary faster. Have to go to the Samsung service centre to see if its a problem or did I set some wrong settings that makes it like this.

Changing Badminton Grip

It had been a long time since I last played badminton. It was until last Monday (07/07/08), me, NYC, Eddy, Pika, and Pika's group of friends went to play at Achorvale CC there.

While playing, I realised that the handle of my racket became very "powdery". Turn to look into my hand to find out what happened... lol

As expected, my right hand that was holding the racket became so black! All the black black powder from the wear and tear of the grip of the handle.

That is always a problem when using synthetic grips. The synthetic material tends to wear off alot after some time. Especially for my case, after don't know how many months...


This is the old grip on my badminton racket.

Let's zoom in... See those white spots? Yeah, those are the wear off part!

Therefore, went out to bought a new grip, Towelling Grip just now.

Spent some time fixing it to my racket. The bottom of the handle is something like a cone shape, that is why I have problem making the grip to roll upwards nicely. I am quite noob at that...

After some struggling, finally managed to make it, not so nice but done anyway... Wakakaka~~~!

Couple or Trouble / 夢幻情侶

Recommended by Eddy to watch a korea drama titled "Couple or Trouble" aka "Fantastic Couple" or 《夢幻情侶》.

I have watched 2 episode already and I find it interesting. It is about a very rich girl who is already married, then loss her memory somehow and fall in love with a guy that she hates... something like that.

Sorry if my description of the drama is wrong as I only finished watching 2 episodes until now. but I don't think it is a very serious love drama, its should be a comedy love drama because the 1st and 2nd episode is quite funny.

If you really want to know more information about the drama, the official website is here.

Can't understand the korean words on the official site? Yeah me neither... hahaha...

Give you all see the trailer 1st...


Lets say no more and go watch it...
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=85DF5C3D2F49F071

OMG! I have problem with the FC Ep.04 (2/7). It seems like the video for that part is not available!

But luckily, i found another source. Just that the subtitle is in chinese. The link for that particular missing part, FC Ep.04 (2/7) is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAPSqRvYXyY


13/07/2008:
Wakakaka! finished watching liaoz... Nice nice, a must watch korea drama!

This is one of the song you often heard in the drama:
환상의 커플 M.family - Just We


And another song:
BENI - Kwaenhi Naman Mawohae (OST Fantasy Couple)

Lyrics: here

Also i found this page with many interesting videos related to the drama:
http://azreen1006.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/%ed%99%98%ec%83%81%ec%9d%98-%ec%bb%a4%ed%94%8c-couple-or-trouble-fantasy-couple/

Here are the NG videos:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BC49E3DF286E3FEE

Basketball Machine 2

After about half a year, I am once again back to Plaza Singapura to play the basketball machine.
My previous score was 173 as I have posted here.

This time my score is 300.

MoSiang Online

Have been playing MoSiang Online in the past few weeks. Below is a intro video.
Enjoy :)

谁从来不去三宝殿？

你们知道~~~ 谁从来都不去三宝殿吗？





对了！ 那就是姓吴的人。 因为
“吴氏”不登三宝殿。。。