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Image via Wikipedia For the older people among us, we remember the days when we used to dread the journey up to Dempsey Hill, the site of the old CMPB, or Central Manpower Base, to report for our compulsory 2 year stint in the SAF (Singapore Armed Forces).(Yes, male Singaporeans are required by law to serve 2 years in the army here in Singapore).We remember the lost looks …
Image by Tom Raftery via FlickrOk so I just discovered this. Actually it was a confluence of factors that allowed me to be able to discover this in the first place. By some sheer concidence and twist of fate(s), I saw this being twittered from one of my followers, which, amazingly, isn't a personal friend. He followed me, I saw who he was, decided, why the hell not, and …
I just got myself a nice spanking new Samsung Camcorder, FREE, just because I am such a loyal Starhub customer :)Ok I'm kidding. It's only because I just renewed my contract with them for my Internet services. Seriously speaking, I don't take a lot of videos. Yes I do MAKE alot of movies, but they're all machinima's. For real-life stuff, I hardly record anything on video. …
Ok I'm really late to do this. Seems like everybody has hopped on the bandwagon and joined a relatively new "blogging network" place called SocialSpark except me. Well I finally got around to doing it and signed an account up on SocialSpark.At first glance, Social Spark seems like a revamped "Pay Per Post", but that's only the first impression. If you actually browse the …
A couple of you might have noticed that I haven't been around much the past couple of days. There's a very simple reason for this.The company I work in, lost my login ID :)Yup, it's missing from the servers, the email address books do not list me at all. I'm "locked out" from my own work PC. If anybody ever tried to email me, they'd get a "No Such Receipient" error.Now, since …
Some time back last year, I wrote about how to do "Disaster Recovery" on your website. Today, I did exactly just that! Well, don't worry, you probably didn't even notice it, because both sites were mirror before I did the DNS change. For those people whose ISP have slower DNSes, they will still hold the old IP address to my old site. For those people who have already updated, …
Ok this post deviates from the usual topic in this blog, ie about games.Hot on the heels of discovering a new and exciting commenting system which I implemented in my main blog, I discovered another one, called Disqus, which I thought is pretty cool too. After learning as much as I could about this new one, I wish I had discovered Disqus earlier.It's not that Intense Debate …
This is the BEST reason not to join a “popular” webhost! :) Do you want YOUR website to be one of the 9000 that went down?Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected ove …
For some reason I couldn't sleep today, and my eyes popped open at 3am. Yeah dammit, my bodyclock's gonna adjust itself back to USA timezone again!So anyway, I was a little surprised to see an email coming in via my Entrecard inbox. Well, I've been getting alot of emails from Entrecard because I just put my fitness blog up on Entrecard, so I have been getting advert approval …
Hands up those of you who have had their Hellgate London bog down in seemingly open areas with very little activity? How many times have your fps (frames per second) gone from high 30's to 0.3 (ie 1 frame every 3 seconds)?Yeah I've had it happening to me too, and I had been scratching my head wondering why. If I could handle 30fps most of the time, even in heavy firefight …
Saturday, 19 July. A date where many people will remember for other things. My drinking buddies and I however, remember this date for a different reason - the birthday of a drinking buddy.The original plan was to have a nice simple dinner, after which we'd adjourn to a nice quiet pub somewhere and just chill and recount tales of yore when we were young.Of course, everyone …
It's starting to become a norm isn't it? Yeah I'm talking about my usual wanderings and stumblings and surfing the net and stuff. I just started with a new company recently and that took time away from blogging.As an aside - yeah I'm plunging headlog into work. The new place wasn't really what I expected when I went to be interviewed. It was MORE. In other words, …
15 May 2008 is supposed to be "Unite For Human Rights" day, as Blogcatalog puts it. Before we go into anything too "deep" or serious, I ask you to view the video below:Funny? Perhaps. To me it is. In this part of the world, parents beat their kids. The western concept of "sending the kid to the room" has yet to catch on. The way that comedian Russell Peters put it across is …
You know what gets on people's nerves the fastest way with your Facebook Apps?When you FORCE them to send invites to 5 or 10 or 15 etc friends before you allow the "results" to be shown. Yes, many will spam their friends just to see the "results", but if your app is useless, it only gets spammed ONCE. Then people remove it and block it.For once, go take a look at successful …
Back in January, I wrote this entry here, about a web service called Kwout. For those not familiar with it, it's basically a service to screenshot a page and provide ready-made code for you to insert into your blog to show a screenshot. Now they've come up with a FireFox extension to do the same thing! You don't have to to go their website to screenshot a website anymore …
Simply Jean has posted the official findings from Straits Times regarding the escape of Mas Selamat, 2 months ago. At the time, there were jokes aplenty about the guards at the detention centre not having watched movies, of how prisoners escape from prisons. Mas Selamat climbed onto the ledge located just below the ventilation window, pushed open the ventilation window and …
You know, I never fail to amaze myself at how forgetful I can be at certain things.In IT, one of the first and most basic form of troubleshooting any network connectivity problem is - to check the cables! If it's not plugged in, you won't see anything. Of course this doesn't apply to wireless networks that is so prevalent now.Anyhow, recently I had thought that the battery …
Normally I don't hang out at Clarke Quay. However, recently a friend told us that Barfly was closing down (whether for renovation or permanently, I have no idea). It was important to her to visit it one last time before it does, have have dinner while we're there.On the appointed date, we congregated at Clarke Quay. The original plan was to hang out till the wee hours. As we …
WARNING! Geeky Post Ahead! Today, for some weird reason, I thought I'd inject some pizazz into my blog. I remembered how some websites had this funky function that is able to pop a picture up in a window INSIDE the web page.No, it's not the usual javascript prompt or messagebox window. Some people refer to it as a "web 2.0 popup box". What it actually is, is a piece of …
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