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To satisfy a personal curiosity about the varying performance of broadband ISPs across Singapore, and to try out a new feature of Google Docs Spreadsheets I just found out about, I’d like to invite all Singaporeans with residential broadband connections to fill in the survey below.To reiterate the notes given below, please go to http://speedtest.net ...
The first single off “Weird” Al’s newest album is available for free listening. “Don’t Download This Song” is his sarcastic take on music piracy and pokes fun at the RIAA, all the while dispensing advice that the RIA...
Yahoo! Answers: What's the point of college?ryan runner asked:What's the point of going to college and getting a degree if you can't use it to get a good job and end up working at some place that requires a high school diploma making a low salary?...and Yahoo! users chimed in with their answers. Most of the answers seem to revolve around career advancement, as one might …
Spotted this sign over at Wheelock Place the other day. At first I only saw the caption at the top, and the pictures of the bushes, and immediately assumed it was some gardening advertisement, and thought to myself that the copy was stuffed full of i...
VueStar, a Singaporean company, claims to have received a patent to technology that enables “Internet searching via visual images”. Whatever that really means — and it seems no …
On Sunday my iPhone stopped working after a restart. It refused to connect to SingTel, instead giving me a warning message that said “Waiting for activation”, as if I’d just bought it and had to wait for SingTel to activate it. Numerous attempts to restart and restore it proved useless. So I called SingTel and ...
In the address last January when Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone, he said that the iPhone would be available in Asia at an undetermined date in 2008. Since then we’ve heard very little about a possible Asian release, and given the difficulties inherent to such a release in many small countries (the only really ...
I was going to spend some time writing about why I so greatly dislike university life, but now I’m home I find my thoughts aren’t coherent enough to collect and put into words. Headache do …
Several of the Protestant Christian organisations in NUS Law are holding a dedication service tomorrow evening for the new campus. An email announcement was sent to all Law students, and some people are not very happy about it. From the various comment...
A while back, several years ago in fact, there was a Citibank advertisement on Singaporean television that featured a song which I’d really like to find. I remember that the lyrics went along the lines of “I prefer [something] or [something...
Digital Life ran an article today by Chua Hian Hou about the rising ubiquity of camera phones and its impact on our lives. He mentioned how people have been using their camera phones to photograph socially unacceptable behaviour and to expose the offen...
In this world of instant blog publishing and instant email sending, it’s very easy to thoughtless click a button and commit our thoughts to the internet, and the moment you do so you’ve passed the point of no return. You can’t cancel ...
I noticed this sign at the walkway from Wisma Atria towards Orchard MRT Station. I was immediately a bit intrigued and quickly pulled out my phone to make sure my phone’s Bluetooth radio was on and set to visible.
Walking further on I saw the sta...
Several weeks ago I read about a new site called BookMooch. It’s a book trading site, allowing book owners to trade books with each other, with the site as the middleman. It’s a really neat idea and I hope it takes off.
BookMooch works on ...
If you’re reading this on the front page of ketsugi.com, you might have noticed over the past two days or so that the site has been giving a “403 Forbidden” error, and before that you might have seen the error message “CGI limit...
After my recent run-in with exceeded bandwidth I made the decision to switch hosts as soon as possible. 1and1 has been good to me, providing me with free decent hosting for nearly three years, but it’s time I got a proper hosting account again, e...
A potentially useful resource for any WordPress plugin or theme developer out there who might like a quick and easy reference to the large number of WordPress functions. The original site is in German, but it handily provides Babelfish links for transl...
Since I switched to KDE, the script I wrote previously to generate md5sum hashes with a GUI is now no longer as useful. It still works, but it uses the Gnome interface which I no longer use. So today I ported the entire script to KDE, using KDialog ins...
Despite how much I’m enjoying using Linux, I do have to boot into my Windows partition occasionally. Notably, when I need to use Visual Studio (I’m beginning to like C#), when I need to back up my phone data (I haven’t been able to ge...
It’s been no secret that I’ve rather disliked Internet Explorer for a long time now. I’ve been advocating Firefox for over two years now, and I still use Firefox today. I keep a copy of Portable Firefox on my USB thumbdrive just so th...
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