Last night I went to this really cool Science Centre-like place. The main objective was to mimic molecules in a solid when it is being heated up. That means you pick your spot in a giant crowd of people and then just vibrate on the spot. Yes, vibrate, because there's no space to do anything else. The fun part is squeezing your way in. Everyone's vibrating so close to each …

Meet the latest addition to my gizmo arsenal:The Panasonic CF-W5 ToughbookIt was a bit of a compulsive buy, really. I bought it while I was on the job covering an event at Suntec City!Some of the event VIPs had been delayed (or perhaps doing the being-late-means-I'm-da-boss thing), so I had an unexpected half an hour to burn. Being the geek I am, I spent it browsing through …

6:13 pm. I had arrived at my tutee's flat early with some time left to burn before I was expected to ring the doorbell.So instead of taking the lift up to her floor, I made my way to the fitness corner nearby and threw myself onto one of the benches. There were children playing catch around the wooden structures, each no more than 3 years old, all shrieking and bubbling while …

---Beginning of mission report---The long-awaited Operation COMEX Cleansweep was carried out at 2000hrs today by LG DON, MG LIM and CPL (NS) BEN. An extensive commander's recce at 1500 hours revealed the locations of the best deals.Form-up point and briefing was carried out at 1830hrs at Marina Square's food court, where it was decided that the attack will be sprung at …

I was happily minding my own business in my cubicle, doing my usual "tech research", when suddenly a sub-editor approached me out of the blue and asked:"I ask you a question, you don't be offended or anything okay?"I felt my left eyebrow go up as my right went down. I nodded."Don't be offended ar? Sure?"I nodded again, and put my hands behind my …

Guess who upgraded his laptop and now got 2 glorious gigabytes of RAM on his rig?With my newfound powers I ditched XP and re-installed Vista (just because I can) with all the works: Aero, Sidebar, you name it. Now I can savour the beautiful and useless transparency effects on my windows and watch them maximise and minimise without lagging me out of my mind.Who's your daddy …

He never told me that he won the award - I only knew it from my ST colleague, who told me that they were running a Home article on him. And it's a 40cm story too! Even billionaires don't get 40cm in Digital Life.If only all policemen would focus on the serious stuff like murders and robberies and theft and rape, instead of wasting taxpayers' money staking out gay people to …

For those who are paranoid of opening your car door and scratching the car parked next to you, the Lincoln Mk 8 is for you. Its car doors slides downwards underneath the car when you "open" them. I wonder how many times they can open and close before they fall off though.

A humble stick shift foiled two armed car thieves from making their getaway. The teenagers, who were armed, stole the wallet and car keys of a man outside a pizza restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, in the United States.They then got into the Honda Accord to make their getaway, but were dumbfounded by the manual transmission of the car they had just stolen.According to witness …

Fresh out of the jungles of NS, stepping onto the crossroads of life, I look at the signboards: they tell me a million ways where I can go, but they don't tell me how far nor where the road leads - just the direction.Up to this point I've been on a main road. The road is paved smooth by the thousands before me, just as my own footprints have paved it for the thousands that …