Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - looking at the growth of randomtots.com

randomtots.com started in late dec 2002, when fm started his adsl broadband service with qala. 100mb of web/email space and a brand new domain name boosted fm's confidence in htmling, jsing and vbsing. looking back, 100mb looks like a joke, esp since google's 1gb free email service appeared on the market.

well, thats not the pt of this post. let us see the random snapshots that the wayback machine has taken of the rapidly changing randomtots.com. i wonder how many of the present readers has been around since the first hello world page, and survived with me thru the various revamps and designs...


this is the entry page, and i cant remember what format follows. i think its a vbulletin board, then i then changed to a phpBB board.


geeklog! i like this format... notice the randomtots logo. =) cute rite!


i used to post lotsa reviews... on movies, on books, on tots on life... i wonder where my "Sky of Love" VCDs are...


geeklog with a new skin. my fingers always very itchy to change stuff that works. esp when im not free.

fm is back in singapore

since Wednesday midnight (Thurs morning). He will be in Singapore until Sep 18 2005 (Sun).

His mobile phone number of 9776 8972 is unchanged.

He will be working at the Company Lab the whole of July and August.

He requests all kind friends to message him with their current hp numbers and to arrange to meet up with him for good food, coffee and deserts.

And he misses his darling terribly. He hopes that she'll 加油 for the next 1 week. Both her finals are next Thursday and she'll then finally be done with an extremely long freshman year. He'll do anything possible to make her happy till then, and beyond.

darling, you can do it! がんばってね！-muackz-

UC has a view on ACS vs PubChem

i love it when pple make use of their power and influence to do good.
i love it even more when it is my own university doing good. we are POWERFUL. =)

• University of California's page on "The American Chemical Society and NIH's PubChem"

• UC's Letter to ACS

UCSD SMSC Events 2004-2005

wow. xinyi did a commemorative flash movie showing some of the fun times the ucsd pple had together... sighz... freshman year just flew by likedat... oh well... hopefully a junior's life is not too bad. =p
and thanks, xinyi!

Haka (Ka Mate)

Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora!
(I die! I die! I live! I live!)

Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora!
(I die! I die! I live! I live!)

Tenei te tangata puhuru huru
(This is the hairy man)

Nana nei i tiki mai
(Who fetched the Sun)

Whakawhiti te ra
(And caused it to shine again)

A upa ... ne! ka upa ... ne!
(One upward step! Another upward step!)

A upane kaupane whiti te ra!
(An upward step, another.. the Sun shines !!!)

Hi !!!

cute dog dancing!

Watch a cute dog dance to the music! Haha. it can dance better than me. i'm so ashamed of myself. and thanks to lw for sharing it!

btw, didnt know stupid windows media player dont allow screenshots to be taken. if got suggestion on how to take screenshot of wmv files share hor. thanks. =)

2046 (draft)

i had a dream (nitemare?) last night on genetic engineering. think ive been reading too much CAT (ethics of GE, genetic testing, abortions, medical care etc) and biochemistry. lethal combination. im trying to translate the dream into a readable story, but bear with me during the process ok? names has been changed to protect identities, this story is entirely fictional and bear no resemblance to any living or dead person or company. all rights reserved.

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the story will be heard...
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The phone started ringing incessantly. But nobody around the dinner table reacted. "No phone calls during dinner" is a well-established rule in my family, and few would dare risking the wrath of my father, even if it means giving peace to our ears for a few more minutes.

"Betty, will you be having your LE today?" Irene called out across the table. Betty has always rejected taking LE since she was young, and many could not understand why. LE is a potent cocktail of performance-enhancing drugs specially created for improving cognitive functions, like memory, concentration and arithmetic functions. Montagene Inc is currently developing the technology to install the relevant genes into custom-made human chromosomes, so that every child born in the US can have his or her brain produce the chemicals directly.

But coffeeshop-talk has always rumored that this technology will never see the light of day outside Montagene's research headquarters. Current sales of the mice-form of LE has been significant higher than the most optimistic projections in Montagene. These "golden mice" (an allusion to the golden goose story which few children have heard of nowadays) are genetically engineered to produced the cocktail of drugs in all their body cells. However, as the drugs are only in significant concentrations in mice stem cells, consuming the mice spinal juices is the easiest way to retrieve the benefits of the drugs.

I can understand why Betty has always been reluctant to consume LE. The sucking of spinal juices out of the mice has never been a pretty sight to me. But as Betty has admitted privately to me before, the killing of the mice is more repungent than anything she has ever seen. And I must confess, it is truly not a pretty sight. The mice are sold alive to customers, as the apoptosis process (cell dying) seems to significantly affect LE in unpredictable ways. Standard consumers like my family have a big 5 feet by 3 feet by 5 feet cage specially designed to maintain the mice in good shape between purchase and consumption. I wonder why such a big cage is necessary, as the mice looks no difference from dead mice. The high concentrations of the drug keep the mice paralyzed, limp to the floor all day long. They can barely lift their heads, the result of a specially engineered (and patented, no less) way to weaken the spinal joints of the neck. But I digress.

Consumption of the drug has been developed into a culinary artform, like the french escargot. The demostration video had showed a tall and serious lady sitting at a formal dining table, with all the appropriate utensils ready. With napkins in place to soak up the excess of mice bodily fluids, she proceeded to lay a limp mouse face down prone across her dining plate. She expertly made two sharp incisions into the neck of the mouse, which always reminds me of cutting a slice out of a whole watermelon. With the mouse freshly dead, she removed a slim, long, metallic straw from its plastic wrapping, poked it into the opening she just made, and started sucking the life juices out of the mice.

The company has recently built a new mice-producing factory in Shenzhen, China, to serve the rising demands of the Japanese for the product.

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writing in progress. will be continued... i hope. (ie no promises)
*****

从 spelling bee 看历史，未来

just watched the last few minutes of the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition, which featured 3 indian kids (that i watched) spell words that few people have even heard of. wow. im impressed.

三个印度人在美国比英文。白人都死到哪里去了？看看身后的房友沉迷于电脑游戏之中，“大势已去” 四个字浮现脑海之中。前些日子在网上报刊读过，中国大陆也经常有类似的比赛。回想起来，自己也是在白人之地，把白人比了下去。我经常都在想，大家开口闭口 说中国印度是未来经济的栋梁，北美欧洲大势已去，到底有多少人真正明白这背后的涵义？

我一直以来都相信，历史是个循环。一个朝代如果要持久，就不能太成功。因为成功之后就难免骄傲，骄傲的国家就会沉滞，其他文化就会追上，把你淘汰掉。很明显的，目前西方文化太过猖狂，必备取代。

sigh... 改朝换代从没是件好事。 frankly. i fear the future...