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BlogOut! is okay, nice food. I think the discussions has been great. Thanks for organizing. Thanks Claudia for letting me be there. Possibly related:The accidental success of the MDA rap video Went to BlogOut! today! I couldn’t stand nouns having appended with an exclamation mark as...I ate two products with melamine I recently ate ...Possibly related:The accidental …
I’ve been working a little more in Ubuntu these days. I found it to be slightly faster. Especially with the performance of NetBeans. It’s a joy to work with NetBeans. In Windows Vista, it’s shit slow. I don’t know why, it’s probably due to all the overheads from the services launched during start up.I feel ...
A 14 pound (6.5Kg) heavy duty LEGO NXT SAFE with 6.6 Gallon (30 Liter) storage space inside. The code lock accepts 5 numbers by changing the rotation direction of the wheel. Only after entering the correct combination of numbers, the door will open.Lego NXT - THE ULTIMATE SAFELego lovers continue to amaze me with different ...
Shareholders panicked over the effects of an economic downturn on investments held by insurers Aviva and Prudential.Prudential and Aviva bear brunt as cash call fears hit insurersFears that insurers could be forced to call on shareholders to boost their finances sent stock prices tumbling yesterday despite assurances that the industry remained in good shape.Insurers Aviva ...
Okay, something geeky for today (like every other day actually):Rubik’s cube 7×7x7 Stop Motion Assembly!!I never completed a 3×3x3 Rubik’s cube as I sucked at these p …
Opera 9.5 is out! You can download it here.Opera has been my main browser since 4 years ago. It’s the underdog of browser wars. It’s quick and light-weight but give web designers more problems with more browsers to support. But I just love the speed Opera offers.Today I use Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 and ...
The most annoying things about iTunes are:Each time I launch iTunes, it gives me a quick black screen, I don’t know what’s that for but it’s uncool.I never understood why dragging and dropping music into iTunes’s Music sometimes work and sometimes don’t.On a maximized iTunes, you cannot move your mouse cursor to the top right ...Possibly …
Igudesman & Joo performs Rachmaninov’s impossible Prelude in C# minor, Op. 3, No. 2, performed as it is written.As Rachmaninov’s hands are probably gigantic, he can play his music. Little guys like Joo have no big hands to show off. “Small hands,” Joo admits and then emphasizes, “but only hands small.”Rachmaninov had big HandsGood …
I can stand it no more. I start getting annoyed these days when people make those Windows joke. No matter how brilliant you think they may sound, they are at best corny. It’s just a bad joke these days.
We were walking out of the Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ school. He needs a cigarette.“Finally visited a girl’s school,” he announced.“Yeah, is that in your things-to-do-before-I-die checklist too?”He laughed, “Yeah, finally… Finally the day has come.”“Checked.”“Yup, checked.”Paya Lebar Methodist …
You could try these unix commands if you’re really bored. It probably works on Ubuntu too.% "How poorly would you rate the Unix (so-called) user interface?Unmatched ". % rm congressional-ethicsrm: congressional-ethics nonexistent % ar m Godar: God does not exist % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?Missing ]. % ^How did the sex change^ operation …
Wired wrote something that got me tinking a bit. I’ll quote in excerpts, the full article is here. I’m more interested in the Singlish portions.How English Is Evolving Into a L …
Okay, on less exciting new - Java is finally fully open and free and without any proprietary code.This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone - The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it provides all the required Java ...
Think you can just quote news for free? It’s only half true only. Associated Press allows you special package of 4 words free, with 5 words just costing a ultra-reasonable $12.50. More below:5-25 words: $12.5026-50 words: $17.5051-100 words: $25.00101-250 words: $50.00251 words and up: $100.00(Source: TechDirt)I understand Associated Press is merely trying to protect …
A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media. CommonCraft tells you what it is.Social Media in Plain EnglishI like CommonCraft’s presentation method. You can’t say it’s another tech video. It’s well done. (via Unique Frequency)“Social”, today, is one of the most overuses Web 2.0 words. The investors must have totally dig …
An undercover BBC investigation has exposed how young African footballers are being conned out of thousands of dollars. Gavin Lee explains how Isaiah Akpan fell victim to a Nigerian scam.‘I was victim of Nigeria football conmen’“The memory of that incident always kind of shocks me,” says Isaiah Akpan.Mr Akpan, like thousands of soccer-mad African …
During my two-year conscription, a certain somebody was quoted saying:“Regular stay in got morale issue.”(This is a personal note.)
Opera 10 alpha has been released, claims to be “30% Faster on the real Web”. So there was a fake web? Opera used to be my browser of choice because it’s so quick. I dumped her because Firefox has some really good extensions. I then went on to using Chrome just ’cause she’s prettier.Anyway, you ...
I like looking at quotations and it’s so hard to find a good one that suits my current situation. Gmail is a great with their little feed thing on the top. I’m too lazy to screenshot it but it’s there unless you had yours disabled.The feed thingy syndicate a couple of quote-of-the-day RSS files. I ...
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