- http://is.gd/1TzN one of the best BYO mobile plan around EVER! $20 for a $49 cap with $300 calls included! awesomely insane! #
Archive for August, 2008
Tweets on 2008-08-25
August 25th, 2008 
Tweets on 2008-08-25
August 25th, 2008 - http://is.gd/1TzN one of the best BYO mobile plan around EVER! $20 for a $49 cap with $300 calls included! awesomely insane! #
Property Prices In Australia
August 11th, 2008 Yong-Long Lai Here’s a quick update on what the market’s been doing and some implication on the Property Prices In Australia. The AUD/USD has dropped from a high of around ~0.98 early last month to just above 0.88 today. This is based of the growing speculation of a rate drop next month and that the world demand for Australia’s resources will drop.
If this happens, we may see a little surge/stability in Property Prices In Australia in the months following. When I say little surge/stability I mean within the median prices and not specifically your house.
If you have extra cash laying around that is not “working” for you, I feel that this is a good time to put your money in term deposits and lock the rate in at an attractive rate of 8.5% or 8.7%
8.1% – 8.5% (as I write this I noticed the deposit rates have already dropped – in anticipation of the rate drop) before the RBA announce the much expected rate drop.
If you’re thinking of borrowing money for for property or any other stuff (hopefully investment), you may want to consider not fixing your interest rate, but really depends on your personal circumstances, financial goals, risk adversity and your general thought of the direction on Property Prices In Australia.
PS: As you may already know, there’s been heaps of volatility in the market over the past 6 to 12months, so things may change rapidly. i.e. Go make up your own mind what you’re going to do with your own money, I am sharing what I would do in this current market information and what I say may not be suitable for you individual circumstances.
Customer Payment Number to pay RAC Insurance Premiums
August 10th, 2008 Yong-Long Lai I might have been a bit slow today, but I found it extremely hard to figure out what the Customer Payment Number was when going to the RAC website to pay my Insurance Premiums!
The first screen you get is:
Online Payment
Step 1 to 4 – Enter Payment Number
Customer Payment Number:
- I tried entering my policy number, MGP1234567 (that didn’t work)
- I tried entering my policy number without the MGP, 1234567 (that didn’t work)
- I looked all over the RAC bill statement and there’s no mention of a ‘customer payment number‘
- I searched for ‘customer payment number‘ on the RAC website (what a worthless search engine they have…)
- I searched for “customer payment number” (exact search) on Google and this gave me some clue – search result
Solution:
End of the day, if you are asked for your Customer Payment Number type in your BPAY Reference Number. In this case it was my policy number with 2 leading zeros, 001234567!
Thank you RAC for making it so hard to pay my Insurance Premiums! I didn’t think it would be that hard to tell your customers what their customer payment number is especially if you were expecting them to pay you!
Summary:
Customer Payment Number = BPAY Reference Number
Tags: Customer Payment Number, RAC Insurance Premiums, Paying Bills
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Tags: Customer Payment Number, Paying Bills, RAC Insurance Premiums 
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August 8th, 2008 - http://is.gd/1hsX google finally has street views in Australia! Now you can buy properties without visiting! Awesome! #
Tweets on 2008-08-08
August 8th, 2008 - http://is.gd/1hsX google finally has street views in Australia! Now you can buy properties without visiting! Awesome! #
MacBook: Blue Screen Of Death!
August 7th, 2008 Yong-Long Lai It’s been about the third week with my new MacBook today. Though it’s been an awesome experience with all the little surprises that makes life on a computer easier and a lot more fun, it hasn’t been all smooth road. I remember one of the Apple salesman talking about how cool Macs were and how Macs don’t crash etc. well all I can say is that its not true! Macs do crash (most of which -i suspect- are caused by all the cool applications that you can get on the MacBook)
End of the day, I managed to find what I think is the “Blue Screen of Death“! for the Mac. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to you on your MacBook… Blue Screen of Death are never a happy moment.
For all the “techy” people who are interested in seeing the details…
Thu Aug 7 21:25:37 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0×00192FD4): “pmap_flush_tlbs() timeout: ” “cpu 1 failing to respond to interrupts, pmap=0×536500 cpus_to_signal=2″@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.5.20/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:4570
Backtrace, Format – Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0×34797b58 : 0×12b0fa (0×4592a4 0×34797b8c 0×133243 0×0)
0×34797ba8 : 0×192fd4 (0×45f414 0×1 0×536500 0×2)
0×34797c18 : 0×1932b8 (0×1 0×53654c 0×0 0×1a236f)
0×34797cc8 : 0×195721 (0×536500 0×27b9b000 0×0 0xfe93dcd8)
0×34797d28 : 0×179ccf (0×536500 0×27b9b000 0×0 0×27b9c000)
0×34797d78 : 0×17a0cd (0×45c62bc 0×27b9b000 0×0 0×27b9c000)
0×34797de8 : 0×1622f9 (0×30c68cc 0×0 0×0 0×1)
0×34797f58 : 0×1a8f72 (0×4435780 0xa76000 0×0 0×1)
0×34797fc8 : 0×19ece6 (0×43b95a0 0×0 0×10 0×43b95a0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffeb28BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9E17Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBook4,1 (Mac-F22788A9)
I have no idea what it means, all I know is that it looks like a Blue Screen Of Death to me!
Tweets on 2008-08-01
August 1st, 2008 - changed error on post http://is.gd/1bV2 and updated my picture on the contact page http://is.gd/1bV6 #
- Getting late here in Perth, busy week ahead with internet, water & council rates to pay, BAS to submit, paperwork to file & tax to organise! #
Tweets on 2008-08-01
August 1st, 2008 - changed error on post http://is.gd/1bV2 and updated my picture on the contact page http://is.gd/1bV6 #
- Getting late here in Perth, busy week ahead with internet, water & council rates to pay, BAS to submit, paperwork to file & tax to organise! #
