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27 Oct 2007 Sorry For Not Being Able To Update
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I am here to say sorry, for not being able to update all of you, as often as possible.

I have prepared several drafted content to be posted into the month of October’s update in this blog, but I failed to do so, because of my overwhelming work to be done.

I feel bad because I wasn’t really able to update this blog as often as I have planned.

This was due to several reasons :-

1) I have been drafting for a new system in a website of my partner and I on the very first and second week of this month, the month of October.

I have been dealing with the bookings that we have got from the website which I have mentioned above, when the system went live on around the 17th-20th of October.

Up to this very moment, where I am typing this post, I have been consistently trying to amend the new system for our website and tried to search for any possible errors in the system, and apply new solutions to those problems which we have successfully identified.

2) My birthday was on the 16th of October.

I have bought a new laptop for myself, which was contributed by my parents (I am really thankful to them, as that was the best present I have ever got from them, plus it was very useful for my work/career too!) .

The laptop I bought, a (HP) Hewlett-Packard Compaq Presario, model number : V3614AU, was pre-installed only with the FreeDOS Operating System (FreeDos OS), which of course, I was not comfortable with it.

Most of my laptop hardwares’ drivers were meant to be installed smoothly with Windows Vista, but not with Windows XP.

Since I have get used to the XP interface and its functions, and I did not have the time to deal with the Windows Vista’s new features, I had decided to install a fresh copy of Windows XP into the laptop.

It took me about 4 to 5 days to search for all of the drivers for Windows XP. It was not officially listed in their official website, and I did a lot of “Google Search” to find out all of those precious drivers for Windows XP (I will dedicate a special tutorial on this topic in the near future) .

It was also not easy to install initially (I have been formatted the computer for about 10 times just to test out all of the drivers that I have found/downloaded, to check if all of them are really compatible with the Windows XP).

I am going to West Malaysia soon, and I will be staying at there for about 1 month, to discuss some internet-related stuff with one of my very good friend.

3) I am going over to KL (Kuala Lumpur) on the 30th of October, and I will be coming back to my hometown, Kota Kinabalu, on the 5th of December 2007.

The functionality of my laptop is very important to me, since I am dealing most of my work over the internet, that is why I spent a lot of time to make sure the laptop is in a ready-to-use mode.

At this moment, I need to concentrate a lot in our existing website.

A lot of things needed to be tested and revised, since we have already maintain a constant online customer base.

I planned to complete the revision of our website before going to KL, but it seems to be impossible, but I will try my best to deal with that and I will try to finish it off (or at least minimize the problems) as soon as possible, so that I can again, concentrate more on my own website’s future projects/development.

Thats all for today, I will definitely update you when I am free to do so.