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Enough of George Bush quotations, here is a list of quotations by local politicians. There may exist misquotations, after all the source is an email.“Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We can deal with them. Suppose you had 10, 15, 20 opposition members in Parliament. Instead of spending my ...
Google went nuts right now! Google starts identifying every single web page as harmful to my computer. Take a look:(Wikipedia may harm your computer.)(Google thinks Google may harm your computer.)This is hilarious. Somebody’s getting into trouble over this.Possibly related:Google launches Wikipedia rival - Knol Well, Google just launched Knol. A knol is an authoritative …
This kinda caught me by surprise:(Thomson ST536 claiming a network error.)You mean routers do that these days?Possibly related:Funny Chinglish - Translate server error I think it’s great that everyone these days is making an effort to translate things...Microsoft Paint screenshots in Windows 7 The new Microsoft Paint in Windows 7 is wonderful. Gone are pixelated …
Thirty cents. Better than nothing. I’m literally using the money earned by another blog to pay for the existence of this blog. It’s sad that I spend more effort in this blog but I don’t get the visitors. Some notes on ad revenueThoughtful posts don’t gain you visitors. To get visitors, you need, I repeat, ...
TheUnixGeek compiled a list of salaries of programmers. It’s of course not reflective in Singapore but it’s interesting to do some comparison as always.Programming LanguagesObjective-C: $82,000C++: $80,000TCL: $80,000C#: $79,000Java: $79,000Python: $78,000Perl: $77,000Ruby: $74,000JavaScript: $72,000Delphi: $64,000PHP: $64,000Visual Basic: $64,000C: …
A forwarded joke today:Why a millionaire needs a bank loan? A lesson in creativity.A Chinese walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer.He tells the loan officer that he is going to Taiwan on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer tells him that ...
Chong Kok wants you to see this:The JC Lightbulb JokeQ: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one tomanufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.Q: How many HCJC students does it ...
I’m using Windows Vista and Windows XP. Enabling cURL (Client URL Library) of PHP is really easy and is a matter of uncommenting something only.Open your php.ini. I use XAMPP for development, XAMPP’s php.ini can be found in C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini. You can probably find your copy lurking around there if you use XAMPP.Do a search of ...
Yesterday, at around this time - 3 AM - I was at Uzyn’s place with Sek Ling, Uzyn, Daphane, Ridzuan, Hendri, U Fong, Arzhou, Chinmay and… Can’t recall the other two names.It was a poker plus beer plus Wii night. Wii had fun. Telok Blangah Heights is quite hard to find. Ridz and I jaywalk ...
This is the type of thing that can scare you in Eclipse:It’s some sort of Eclipse rendering bug. Your code is totally jumbled up and all the indentations and braces are all prancing around when you scroll up and down.When such things happen, be daring - save your work. Close your file, make a silent ...
Here’s the calculator in Windows 7. It’s got 4 modes, basic, scientific, programmer and statistics:(The different modes of Windows 7 calculator.)I don’t know why there is “programmer” in the list. I thought “Programming” would probably be a better choice. Better yet:Normal humanScientistProgrammerStatisticianThis is how the normal …
Sometimes I just log into Facebook to superpoke everyone. And if you superpoke enough people you’ll gain new actions which can be pretty cool; but not this:SuperPoke! 99995945 more friend(s) to reach the next level! (and get new actions!)Wow, I’ll have to work really hard on that one certainly.
I think it’s great that everyone these days is making an effort to translate things to another language. Globalization’s really happening, so are mistranslations:TranslateServerError.jpgErm, it’s the thoughts that counts right?
For some reason, I couldn’t get XAMPP 1.7.0 working in Windows 7. There appears to be some sort of issues. I tried the zip package or the 7z package and both have the same result. Instead I found XAMPP 1.6.8 to be working fine for Windows 7 and is using that for web development using ...Possibly related:How to use sendmail in XAMPP for Windows The easiest way to start …
This made me laugh, sorry I couldn’t reduce the length. Reducing any parts weakens the effect of the following:Not to be Confused with the Abstract F*cktory PatternRecently I (a Java architect) and one of our IT managers were interviewing a guy for a Java developer position. He was pretty bright, but unfortunately English was his ...
Never really understood why people like crabs so much actually…I don’t eat crab as I never knew how to appreciate it. The Chinese love crab though.
That’s my school (Singapore Institute of Management), my distant school (University of London) and my degree (Computing and Information System). I just saw my results are I passed. And I passed.
I almost forgot about this appointment. I took a cab and rushed out of the house to a place few taxi drivers are familiar with. When entering the building, they quickly confiscated my phone.Oh well… When would they acknowledge that these days it’s camera phones everywhere. I’m going back already though.Possibly related:Widgeous pantry room and ...Possibly …
When everyone’s talking about Olympics, Russia goes to war. 1,400 people dead.Georgia: Russia has invaded and we are under attackRussia sent troops and tanks into the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia today as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared “the war has started”. 1,400 reported dead. Georgia to withdraw troops from Iraq for use ...
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