An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn’t even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year. When he heard noises coming [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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, [...]
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, [...]