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Found a forwarded email with this image of a receipt from a local restaurant in Raffles Hotel sitting around in my inbox while clearing my inbox (trying to achieve the state of “Inbox Zero”):Yeah I’d like some nachos with my slut.
One of the reasons I’ve been rather quiet on this blog ever since my return from the trip to Tokyo is this nice medium-sized abscess I brought back with me. It appeared about 3 days into the trip, and I must have really bad luck because it was located on my posterior - moving around on foot and sitting down were particularly trying events. Considering that we got around …
I’ll be out of town (i.e. Singapore) for the next week and a half. Going to Japan, more specifically Tokyo and nearby cities. Tentacle sex and soild panty vending machines here I come!Oh and if anyone has any pointers or places/food/experiences that are not to be missed, please let me know.
VLC media player 0.8.6 (changelog) was released a few weeks ago so this may be old news, but I am clearing my backlog of drafts.Mac OS X users, if you watch videos in full screen mode (lik …
Saw this on a Christmas brochure while buying some pastry from the local Delifrance cafe:I immediately thought of Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo (of South Park fame).While the resemb …
Tomorrow.sg has an entry with a photo of glue sniffing girls on a MRT train. This picture is tits (as Eric Cartman would say).
Saw this in a MacDonald’s at a local shopping mall:If you can look past the fuzziness of the photo, it’s actually someone using a HP laptop with an Apple sticker. Now, if only I can get a …
Just noticed an insidious “bug” in MySQL when you use “AND”s instead of commas to separate the fields you are updating in your SET clause. Being a little rusty in SQL, I entered something like the query below while trying to make a quick fix to some records:UPDATE charactersSET alignment = 'Neutral Evil'AND last_name = 'Majere'WHERE first_name = …
A GoogleAlert (not the Google Alert) email arrived in my inbox today alerting me to the Firefox Secrets entry on Google Book Search (that’s a book I wrote, for the uninitiated). It’s listed as a limited preview so only the first few pages of each chapter are available. If you’re interested in previewing a Firefox book circa 2005 (virtually the Mesozoic ages …
Yup, it’s that fast and simple, using Ferret, a Ruby port of Lucene (the de facto full text search engine written in Java) and the acts_as_ferret plugin, I added “Did you mean this?” functionality to a small Rails application (non-perma link) today rather quickly and painlessly.Adding full text search funtionality to your Rails applicationsInstall Ferret via …
Something that really bugged me when using YUI Calendars and YUI AutoComplete widgets was how IFrame shims are currently being managed in libraries and home-brewed code (we use IFr …
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