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During the recent MATA fair, one of my collegue registered a Korea Trip and planning to have a wonderful vacation with his gf. Few weeks later, the star newspaper publish a news titled the "Study load defaulter barred from travelling oversea". After I read the news, I remember one of my collegue mention tat he have not started to pay his PTPTN loan yet. and u know wat? You are right! that’s collegue who planning to go to Korea is the one that who has not started to pay his student loan.

Then Paul make a joke said, "Hey friend, remember if you can’t go to Korea at the last minutes, dun waste the ticket, call me! i’ll stand by a day before to enjoy the Free Korea Trip!" 🙂

Hope Lin will not stopped by the authorities while entering the plane. hahaha

Last 2 days mariah ask "what it means ‘web base’?" at one of my previous post. Web base means, you can perform some specific task by using Web Browser (IE, Firefox, Opera or etc). In other words, you do not need to download any setup files, do not need to run the setup.exe, everything you need is just a browser.

Many IT giant has started to turn their standalone application to web base application according to Web 2.0 Specification. You may ask me What is Web 2.0? I’m also not really sure about this but i know it’s a big thing hitting the software industry. Ok here is the simple explanation. According to a expert Richard MacManus from Zdnet:-

Web 2.0 = using web as a platform

Web 2.0 = the underlying philosophy of relinquishing control

Web 2.0 = glocalization ("making global information available to local social
contexts and giving people the flexibility to find, organize, share and
create information in a locally meaningful fashion that is globally
accessible")

Web 2.0 = an attitude not a technology

Web 2.0 = when data, interface and metadata no longer need to go hand in hand

Web 2.0 = action-at-a-distance interactions and ad hoc integration

Web 2.0 = power and control via APIs

Web 2.0 = giving up control and setting the data free

Since there are so many viruses and worms around. I would like to share a good FREE anti virus with u all. It’s Avast!

This anti virus come with 7 type of protection

1. Standard Shield
2. Web Shield
3. P2P Shield
4. Network Shield
5. Internet Mail
6. Outlook / Exchange
7. Instant Messaging

you can customize the sensitivity level Normal, High and Custom.

Just a personal experience. That time i’m very new to this anti virus. I was in my office network doing my work, there is a colleague plug his laptop into our office network right beside me. 5 seconds later, my antivirus gave me a warning message! "Warning a virus has been detected…" When i check the virus details, it shows there is a worms trying to attack my computer thru the network and tat worms is coming from my collegue PC tat just plug into the network. Avast is so amazing!

Go n download a free copy at http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html