oh wells, its the 14th of feb, and yayness, i was home today. yay! =) i felt so. crappy . just at home, okay. got my friends to come over to play tennis, but. like. wth? play tennis on valentines day? like. wth>! aha. okay. yes. we're all single. =) the 3 guys are single and very availble. haha. what a life, stay home and play tennis. oh wells. supposed to be in church right now, but. kimyong msged all that today is vday and he doesn't want us to sacrifice today with our loved ones. guess i agree? everyone else in the band is attached. well. everyone ELSE expt me. not that im making much noise about it. haha. im not complaining? i guess i cld say partly that i kinda enjoy singlehood? but there's some stuffs that you'll never get when ur single? i guess its the feeling of someone you are accountable to? and the closeness and all and yada. wow! so cheem. haha. i dont. miss miss it. but. i guess it does make me feel suddenly.... weird? lonely? i mean,im not lonely as per, i dont have friends and all? but the. lonely as in..... no partner? haha. i dont know. im usually okay with it. well. i was, until. well. i started to have a crush. and its like. i like. just wanna spend some time with her. okkay. not just some, but. MORE time. haiz.. RAH! its soo. confusing. its like. what if she doesn't like me? wth? why am i ranting about this? haha. i thought i said i wont blog about it? oh wells..

thats the last of it i guess. =)

since its valentines day today. i think i shall post something rgd vday =)


For all those computer geeks out there who will spend yet another Valentine's Day in the presence of a computer rather than a significant other, it's time to change the game. Toss off the shackles of this Hallmark-addled so-called holiday, and celebrate a far more important and entertaining occasion: ENIAC Eve, a compu-centric holiday for all the technophiles of the world.

On Feb. 15, 1946, the world's first programmable electronic computer--the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)--was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania. And so, we christen the day before as ENIAC Eve, an anniversary of the last night the world did not formally know the joys and wonders of programmable electronic computing.

Now, let's not forget that 1946's definition of programming is fairly well-removed from the definition of programming today. Rather than simply composing code in a favorite hacking app, ENIAC programmers had to physically reprogram the computer by resetting switches and removable cables.

Moreover, despite weighing about 27 tons, ENIAC initially had no way of storing a program, so any change in function required a full physical reprogramming session. (The year 1948 saw some of these issues resolved when ENIAC received a primitive ROM system, as proposed by physicist John von Neumann.)

This kind of programming sounds like a job for the prototypical and proverbial manly 1940s-era engineer, eh? Not quite. A half-dozen women are responsible for the bulk of ENIAC's programming: Fran Bilas, Betty Jennings (later known as Jean Bartik), Ruth Lichterman, Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder (later known as Betty Holberton), and Marlyn Wescoff. Their work on ENIAC earned each of them a place in the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

If ENIAC is the direct ancestor of all modern computers, then these women are the intellectual and professional forerunners of all modern programmers. The debt we owe some of these women doesn't stop there, however, as at least one of them pioneered software advances still in use today.

This particular ENIAC programmer went on to develop the technical standards that led to the creation of both the COBOL and Fortran programming languages.