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In this post, I have worked out for everyone how much it will cost to own an iPhone (with all the different discounts) with the different plans so we can have a one website to compare make a rational decision. Singtel's ploy to confuse us will not work!
Got ODEXed? Join the action group.A GROUP of irate anime downloaders are trying to rally other downloaders into suing Odex, a local distributor of Japanese anime.They say they want back the money they paid Odex in settlement for their having allegedly downloaded the Japanese cartoons.Their running war against Odex took its latest twist in January, ...
It is often said that the private enterprise out-wits government enterprises when it comes to innovation. This is no doubt a case in point. LTA today launched a (beta) portal for public transport users in Singapore called Public Transport @ SG, which was supposed to be a one stop portal for all public transport users.It ...
I was just hopping around the major news sites when one of them had an interesting article that seemed interesting.Apaprantly one of the editors at NewsWeek got a review unit of the Macbook Air, and lost it.As humiliating as it sounds, let me repeat: the MacBook Air is so thin that it got tossed out ...
Apparently Malaysia wants to be nuclear powered by 2023. Straits Times reports that the Malaysian Energy, Water and Communications Minister Shaziman Mansor think that nuclear power is the way to go to avoid the high oil prices. Ok, just try not to blow up the whole region ok? Pretty please.
Click here to find the parking rates in some parts of Singapore. Find the best (and cheapest) parking in Singapore!Now everything also up. ERP gantries up. Petrol up. Parking up. I just got back to Singapore, and am a bit out of touch with the driving scene in Singapore. I resorted to public transport in ...
Aiyoh Corporal, going to ORD next month, still do this kind of stupid things. Don’t want to become civilian is it? Want to sign on also not lidat one. Zzz. Please be smarter next time, you are going to be sitting in DB for a while, really. FULL-TIME National Serviceman Corporal Dave Teo Ming triggered ...
Every since M1 introduced the HSDPA dongle last year, mobile broadband has mushroomed in Singapore. Now, Starhub is offering free wireless access on the go for it’s residential subscribers.I have had the opportunity to use the M1 service back home (thanks Ridz!) to get work done once in a while, but I mainly stick to ...
Blogging activity has ballooned since blogging became ‘cool’ and ‘hip’ and ‘in’ over the last few years. But there are those bloggers who remember the dos and don’ts of blogging, while there are those newbies who jump head first in without understanding the implications or intricacies of blogging. I have been blogging since …
I was catching up on some TV series I have been wanting to watch since the exams ended, and one of the more recent ones was the on BBC Money which had a documentary on Bill Gates.Titled "Bill Gates: How a Geek Change The World", it gave a good interesting prespective on Big Bill, his ...
This kind of inaccuracy in a national newspaper is becoming close to unacceptable. I understand that humans err, but the golden rule in report has always been to check, double check and triple check. Facts, text and engrish. Some bloggers write better than our papers.Spot it?Unfortunately, the standard of Straits Times has been below my ...
Last night’s talk by Mahathir on ‘The Case for Criminalising War’ was indeed a well thought out affair. Even though there were a few unfortunate incidents (read my previous post), everything seemed as normal. I had my college ID checked 4 times on the way up to the LT where Tun Mahathir was speaking, all ...
And you thought Mat Selamat's escape from Singapore was incredulous, a prisoner actually broke out from a jail by climbing down a rope made up of bedsheets knotted together. It was the most fairytale-like jail break - an old stone jail tower, a dangling rope of knotted sheets and an empty cell. All under the watchful (probably sleeping) eyes of the guards.
Even as it struggles to meet demand in existing markets, Apple plans to introduce the iPhone 3G to new countries next month. The company said that the latest iPhone would go on sale in 20 additional countries by August 22.The announcement came during a quarterly conference call with financial analysts in which chief operating officer ...
A recent study by the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems has found that Starhub (and 2 other American ISPs) is blocking PSP transfers.3. Both in the U.S. and in Singapore, all hosts that suffered BitTorrent blocking are located in cable ISPs. We did not see any blocking of BitTorrent transfers from DSL hosts in ...
Another public holiday? Whee! It’s not something we would complain about would we? A lot of things in Singapore are still not family friendly in Singapore, that’s why you got small families. How much time did your parents get to spend with you as a kid? What about the parents today?MAKE the fourth Saturday of ...
Malaysia’s 4th Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, is visiting today to give a talk on "The Case for Criminalising War", and I will be attending it. Doors open at 6pm, and that’s in 30mins. It’s in the Sir Alexander Fleming building, Imperial College London.The City Guilds College Union has a news article on this.Although ...
Oh yea, that’s a picture of Ridz and his dad in Digital Life!Caught it just before I left for the airport.
A countdown to the end of my academic life, as major milestones pass daily.. Project Presentation Literature Report Examination Viva IIIB Exams Project Report Project ...
Thrilling shoot out. United almost lost it. But they are now the champs of Europe, all thanks to John Terry.



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