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After so many years of using free web hosting providers for my tiny, insignificant blog, I have finally decided to take the plunge and go with a paid hosting plan. Part of the reason is because eversince migrating my blog to the WordPress platform, I started encountering weird limits imposed by free hosting providers… limits ...
Now that elections are coming, and for me personally, the first time I can finally vote since reaching adulthood. I live in an area where, in past elections, the default mode was “walkover̶ 1;. For the first time in years, we finally have candidates from ruling party as well as opposition contesting this sacred area. That ...
In my home, I have 2 ISPs providing internet service – SingNet and Starhub. I won’t get into details as to why I have 2, but the fact is, I have 2. For a long time, these 2 ISPs have remained separate. PCs and laptops connected to one can’t see the other, and vice versa. ...
Wow, it’s been 9 months since my last post! Yeah well I’ve been busy doing other stuff… you know, mundane stuff like “work”. Oh yes, I got into Star Trek Online too, but that’s another story. The topic of this post very conveniently has references to the previous post made here, 9 months ago. Yeah, ...
Image via Wikipedia Back in 2001, a new game hit the market – “Operation Flashpoint”. It was a new concept in First-Person gaming. It was eerily similar to an earlier game – SpecOps. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it was a new and improved version of DID’s “Wargasm” ;. In short, you play ...
Image via WikipediaBack in 2001, a new game hit the market – “Operation Flashpoint”. It was a new concept in First-Person gaming. It was eerily similar to an earlier game – SpecOps. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it was a new and improved version of DID’s “Wargasm” ;.In short, you play the game ...
Lately my stuff has been failing. Luckily, ALL of them were still within warranty. Back at this post, I was lamenting that my stuff all seemed to start dying at the same time.Last week, a new item joined this infamous list – my relatively new 21-inch LCD Monitor. Yeah the one I use to play ...
I have only recently noticed something new with Google Maps – a 3D model view. Off in the upper right corner of a map view, there’s this tab called “Earth“. When you click it, it runs the Google Earth engine, and shows you the map of the area in 3D! Yes, like in flight sims, where ...
I have only recently noticed something new with Google Maps – a 3D model view. Off in the upper right corner of a map view, there’s this tab called “Earth“. When you click it, it runs the Google Earth engine, and shows you the map of the area in 3D! Yes, like in flight sims, where ...
Yes, we got Assassin’s Creed 2 before North America. Singapore had it since Thursday, 4 March 2010. I received an SMS (that’s “text message to you Westerners) from my regular game shop at 1pm saying that it was in Singapore. By 6pm I had a copy in my hands, and by 6.30 I was already ...
Yes, we got Assassin’s Creed 2 before North America. Singapore had it since Thursday, 4 March 2010. I received an SMS (that’s “text message to you Westerners) from my regular game shop at 1pm saying that it was in Singapore. By 6pm I had a copy in my hands, and by 6.30 I was already ...
Yes, we got Assassin’s Creed 2 before North America. Singapore had it since Thursday, 4 March 2010. I received an SMS (that’s “text message to you Westerners) from my regular game shop at 1pm saying that it was in Singapore. By 6pm I had a copy in my hands, and by 6.30 I was already ...
In the previous post here, I talked about how spam-bots were attempting to spam this blog, and what I used to stop it. All went well, until a couple of friends reported (via Facebook and …
In the previous post here, I talked about how spam-bots were attempting to spam this blog, and what I used to stop it. All went well, until a couple of friends reported (via Facebook and …
In the previous post here, I talked about how spam-bots were attempting to spam this blog, and what I used to stop it. All went well, until a couple of friends reported (via Facebook and …
Some of you may know that I switched this blog from Blogger platform over to self-hosted Wordpress very recently, thanks (or no-thanks) to Blogger’s decision to cease support for FTP publishing from 26th March onwards.My blog has always been fine and relatively spam-free for the entire duration when I was on Blogger – about 7 ...



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