I currently have a handful of Demonoid invitation codes to give away. Just leave a message with your email and I’ll send one to you.

Demonoid is a website and BitTorrent tracker. It was the second largest and second most used public tracker for over a year, the 403rd most popularly ranked website in July 2007 according to Alexa, and had an estimated 3 million peers in September 2007.

The website features a publicly accessible search tool. Previously, membership had been required to download more than 3 torrents per week or to download torrent files older than a few days. Registration is opened periodically when resources permit. Users have the ability to create a limited number of invitation codes to send to others during closed registration periods.

I currently run Microsoft Windows Vista Business, with Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.6001.18000). I’ve been using IE7 since its beta stage (on Windows XP to begin with) and have never had this problem… After I upgraded to Windows Vista, I’ve noticed serious memory leak / problems with the browser.

IE has been running for about 3 hours. In total, I’ve opened (and closed) between 30 - 40 tabs. Then suddenly, when inspired to check the news online, my computer started to feel extremely sluggish… So I opened up task manager, expecting to see IE7 eating up all my resources as I’ve seen before. And that’s exactly what I found.

Good lord, what is going on? So I closed IE, and waited several seconds for the system to free up some memory. Then restarted IE7 to write this entry.

As far as I can see, it seems to be a problem with AJAX (as I’ve noticed IE7 feasting on my memory most often after I’ve been on Facebook and other AJAX websites), and after some digging, found:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=105535, which seems to be a bug Microsoft refuses to address. I have also tried running IE in safe mode, or without any add-ons but to no avail.

Speaking of which, I currently have one IE7 window opened, running for less than 20 minutes with 6 tabs running… And memory usage has jumped to 144MB. What?!

I really do want to stick with IE7, and doubt I’ll ever fully convert to an alternative such as Firefox, as it’s just not to my taste. I don’t wish to turn this post into a IE7 vs. Firefox debate, but am really needing a solution!

So, has anyone else found they also have this problem? I would love to hear any advice anyone has on fixing this!

Many of you may have been around when I announced the launch of Vurta Web Hosting, some 1 year 5 months and 24 days ago. Now I’m proud to announce the online launch of another venture I’ve been working on (amazingly, with pen and paper, until now!) – Vurta Clothing.

In a nutshell, Vurta Clothing is a company that offers a huge range of clothing garments and specialises in customised clothing. That is, if you want a bunch of t-shirts with your team’s name and slogan on it, Vurta Clothing is the place to get it.

Don’t have enough time to do everything? Don’t worry, we will handle it for you. Just send us what you want, for example, designs, and we’ll do everything from processing payments from your clients, to production, quality control, and delivery to your clients. Yes, that means no more chasing people to keep on top of their orders (well, we’ll do the chasing for you!).

Want to start up your own clothing company? Fantastic, we support entrepreneurs and we’d loved to help you set up your business. We’ll set you up with everything, from a white labelled online storefront to stock management and delivery. You can then focus all your energy on marketing and driving your business. And our team will always be around to guide you, should you need help!

Please visit our website (http://www.vurtaclothing.com) to find out more, or contact us.

Today I received my first cheque from Google Adsense! It’s great to see all the hard work I’ve put into this website worth something. I’d like to give thanks to everyone who visits. Currently, timw.com receives on average 650 unique visitors a day!

One thing I believe this website is lacking is comments. Comments are open to everyone, and anything can be posted (except spam, porn, illegal crap, etc.). I love feedback, and if anyone has any comments they like to make, feel free to do so in the corresponding blog entry. Alternatively, if you have any suggestions or would like to contact myself directly, please contact me here.

Again, thank you for visiting!

Despite seeing beggars / drunks / homeless people / druggies on every corner of most ‘lower-class’ places in Hong Kong, I’m surprised to say I haven’t seen a single in the streets of England. Call me a beggar too, but I don’t think I’ve ever donated a cent / dollar / chip / knife to one of these chaps; nope, not even when with a girl I’m trying to impress.

Regardless, if one feels they must donate, they should not donate money but instead:

Maybe I should start carrying a bag with it all the above when going out and trying to impress a girl on our first date.

I ordered my Ubuntu CDs on the 24 July 2006, and although I had pretty much forgotten about them, I finally received my package today. It took just under a month for them to arrive in Hong Kong! I’m taking it for a spin now, so stay tuned for my “Ubuntu - First impressions” post, coming soon!

P.S. Don’t call me greedy - 7 of the ordered CDs are for my friends!

Who agrees?

Wednesday 16th August 2006. A wonderful day indeed. Hit off with a three-hour hike to a beach many would think did not exist in Hong Kong. From here, I spent some quality time with my lady.

Despite Christy applying several layers of sun cream on my body, I ended up being fried… With pretty much all of my body burnt red, including my hands. On the other hand, Christy’s perfectly (not) tanned body remained unharmed.

I wish I could post up many more high quality pictures, just to show the beauty of the beach; but the Internet has too many sick people, including those who take joy in making up “you spammed my website” stories.

Some highlights of the day:

– My cool drink cooling invention made from entirely beach-found equipment. Involved anchoring a bottle onto the seabed and allowing the water to cool it. Despite being an amazing invention, the blazing sun seemed to boil the water, and hence the drink and my body.
– Christy writing a big fat message in the sand for me
– Playing in the waves with Christy
– Releasing a substance known as urine into the sea
– Trying to do flips on flat ground but killign myself instead
– Christy appearing out of the water, with a hair-covered, ugly face
– Watching Christy hike for three hours through mountains wearing her $12,000 4-inch Prada Stilettos (Kidding)
– and many more.

Thanks for being my date and happy 10 months. As you would say, “you’re the best, dude!”.

P.S. Stitch can still kick Doraemon’s butt.

The most valuable part of my website is my domain name. Firstly, it’s super short – it stands at a bold 4 characters long. Secondly, it represents me – I am Timothy Wong. Thirdly, it took me a long time to get it. There’s probably a few more reasons why its so valuable to me, but I guess you now understand how Timothy Wong (I) might have a close emotional bond with timw.com. Alright, enough emotional talk and boasting.

Everyday I dig through around 100 emails, spread across several accounts (personal, business, etc.). Yesterday, one particular email caught my attention. It was sent through this website’s contact form and is as follows (names and emails censored for privacy reasons):

—– Original Message —–
From: ********@*******.com
To: *@timw.com
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Contact Form: Offer for domain www.timw.com

Dear Timothy Wong,

I am interested in acquiring your domain, [http://www.timw.com] for US$1000 (One Thousand US Dollars). I understand that you currently have a website under this domain name, but I strongly believe that my offer is sufficient in getting you set with another domain, as well as leaving you with quite a nice sum of cash.

Please let me know what you think ASAP. I am willing to negotiate for the domain in question.

Regards,
T***** W*********

I have sold about 6 domain names in my time, but I have never even considered selling timw.com. It doesn’t matter what price you throw at me, timw.com is not available. I’m going to sit on it until I die.

P.S. Please excuse my excessive use of ‘Timothy Wong’ in the first paragraph - I’m trying to increase my search engine ranking for the keyword “Timothy Wong”

Vurta has been up for a while now, our datacenter is the core to our business. Without it, there would be no Vurta. Our servers power our business. Because of this, we have strict guidelines on how our systems are setup, managed, and kept. As always, safety is a priority too. Take a look:

Actually, the above pictures have nothing to do with Vurta. You’ll be glad to know that we’re located in the NAC datacenter; a much safer, trustable and reliable place. Let me repeat, the above pictures are not related to Vurta! So what does Vurta and its services sit on top of? Look below:

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